Viola Fletcher, along with two other survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, testify before a House subcommittee on Wednesday, nearly 100 years to the date of the siege on a Black neighborhood.
A widely discredited GOP-led review of the 2020 election in Arizona's largest county has affirmed the accuracy of the official tally. But the report still raises concerns about the election system.
House leaders on Thursday announced an agreement with the White House on a loose framework for how they will pay for their spending package. No specifics were announced about the framework.
As GOP lawmakers in Arizona reviewed the 2020 election results, the Justice Department cautioned them to follow federal law. It is part of a broader federal effort to protect the right to vote.
The House select committee which is investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has issued subpoenas to four former Trump administration officials. More could be on the way.
The vote is an attempt by Democrats to protect abortion rights as states set increasingly restrictive laws. The bill is expected to pass the House, but faces dim prospects in the Senate.
Increasing the debt ceiling used to be procedurally easy — and hardly newsworthy. That changed when control of Congress flipped to the GOP in 1994 and Newt Gingrich became House Speaker.
The chief enforcer of the Taliban's harsh interpretation of Islamic law the last time they were in power says executions and amputations of hands will be back.
The subpoenas compel four former officials to produce sought-after documents, relevant to the Jan. 6 attack, by Oct. 7 and then sit for a deposition the following week.
The White House now says it failed to evacuate most of America's Afghan allies in the airlift from Kabul. Even those evacuated may be stuck in immigration limbo for years unless Congress takes action.
