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Supreme Court Judges Amy C. Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh have sided with liberal judges and have denied an appeal made by a section of healthcare workers in Maine seeking to bypass a directive to get vaccinated. The court refused to stop the Maine administration from obliging those with certain...
The January 6 committee has expressed its anger at the tardy pace of progress in talks with Mark Meadows, Trump’s ex-chief of staff. Members are mulling more aggressive measures to drag him to the table. Meadows was subpoenaed over a month back. Ever since he had been procrastinating his appearance...
Ron DeSantis has announced a fresh lawsuit against the federal administration over the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal contractors. The lawsuit seeks an immediate end to what he terms are unlawful requirements that federal contractors must ensure for all their employees. Ron DeSantis has declared that his administration has...
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo was on Thursday charged with a misdemeanor for groping a former aide. He faces up to a year in prison if convicted for the assault that allegedly took place in Albany’s Executive Mansion, the official residence of the Governor of New York. The criminal complaint of...
The planned vote to decide the two-party infrastructure bill was stalled after the House delayed it. Negotiations are on over the much bigger social safety bill that has been stalled for lack of a consensus. Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker left in the early morning on Friday. She persistently suggested...
On 29th October, Friday, Pope Francis and President Biden renewed the close relationship between the two. The meeting lasted for 90 minutes and was double the length of the President’s meeting with Pope John Paul II when he was pontiff. Pope Francis Share A Healthy Relationship With The Catholic President The...
Long-time Hillary Clinton top aide and adviser, Huma Abedin has alleged in her book that a US senator assaulted her. The estranged wife of former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner said that she ‘buried’ the incidents until the memories were triggered after the allegations of sexual assault against Justice Kavanaugh. Huma...
Joe Biden has enough on his plate with the Republicans opposing him at every step. But elements within his party are set to undermine his standing at the crucial Glasgow climate summit. His hopes of cajoling international partners into commitments to cut down on carbon emissions could get derailed...
The house committee appointed to investigate the January 6 insurrection has decided to subpoena advocate John Eastman next. The conservative lawyer was the legal brain behind the insurrection and convinced Vice Pence, the former VP to re-elect Trump as the president. John Eastman had convinced Donald Trump and his cohorts...
Marjorie Taylor Greene has made perhaps the most outrageous interpretation of the January 6 insurrection. Other Republican representatives and senators have presented their deranged views that ranged from just a regular tourist visit’ by Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde to denial that it was an armed and dangerous insurrection as...
Two prominent Republicans, known for being consistently anti-Trump, are set to function in the Joe Biden administration. The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Cindy McCain, wife of the late Senator John McCain, and former Senator Jeff Flake. While Flake has been appointed as the Turkish ambassador, McCain will serve...
The climate part of expenditure has been almost settled and could turn out to be the biggest part of Joe Biden’s social spending plan. The total plan is expected to be settled at somewhere between $1.5T to $2T. This ensures Joe Biden’s roughly $2T for social spending.  Insiders have revealed...
Lev Parnas was found guilty of funneling Russian money to election candidates in return for favors in setting up a marijuana business. The Giuliani aide along with his business partner, Igor Fruman was in the close circle of disgraced president Donald Trump when they were arrested near Washington while...
President Joe Biden has once more rejected the plea for the executive privilege by Donald Trump to keep away a tranche of documents from a special congressional committee. The committee is investigating the US Capitol January 6 insurrection. The Trump executive privilege has already featured in another lawsuit to...
GOP Governor Greg Abbott affixed his signature to the redrawing of voting maps. This paves a safe route for the Republican majority. The only hope left for opponents is the courts that could stop the gerrymandered districts a year before they enter the 2022 Texas gubernatorial elections. A spokesperson announced...
The Republican Governor Doug Ducey lifted the pandemic restriction in March even as the virulent Delta variant was making an entry. He increased stress on the increasing number of Arizona school districts that have defied the ban against an Arizona mask mandate.   Arizona is slowly inching towards New York death...
21 police officers in Chicago have been put on a ‘no pay status’ for declining to disclose their vaccination status. But Ron DeSantis invited such police officers to relocate to Florida. Even the death of 716 police officers nationwide since the beginning of the pandemic has not convinced some officers...
Zalmay Khalilzad had stood his ground and refused to term the US-Taliban deal as a ‘surrender agreement.’ Standing up to the former military and other officials, the special American envoy at the peace talks before the fall of Afghanistan said the deal was inevitable given the ground the Americans...
Stacey Abrams, the voting rights activist, had a strong message for voters in Virginia. She urged people to vote for Democrats and said that the nation would begin to resemble Texas or Georgia after years of continuous Republican rule. Speaking for Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate, at Charlottesville, Stacey Abrams...
President Biden’s attempt to make college free for students appears to be on hold for now. Plans to make community colleges tuition-free aren’t likely to be part of the final social safety bill. But the Pell grant could be a game-changer and is still very much on the agenda. Biden’s...