By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A pair of bills granting the U.S. Justice Department additional tools to go after Russian oligarchs and alleged war criminals appeared poised to become…
(Reuters) -Russian former deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday he required surgery after being hurt in a blast in Russian-occupied Ukraine, the latest in a series of attacks…
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Arizona will remove a line of shipping containers placed along the U.S.-Mexico border a week after the U.S. government filed a lawsuit alleging that the…
By Gram Slattery and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday will vote on a $1.66 trillion government funding bill that provides more money for Ukraine’s…
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The private Russian military company, the Wagner Group, took delivery of an arms shipment from North Korea to help bolster Russian forces in Ukraine, a…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States faces “dangerous and threatening” storms in the days before Christmas, President Joe Biden warned Thursday from the White House, and Americans who plan to travel…
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) – A former lawyer for ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told her to “downplay” her knowledge of events leading to the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan.…
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to require the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to audit presidents’ tax filings, after lawmakers concluded the…
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday emphasized the need for all countries, including China, to share information on their experiences with COVID-19, at…
KABUL (Reuters) -Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration said on Thursday it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of the Islamic dress code, in…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said that the Taliban are trying to sentence Afghanistan’s women “to a dark future without opportunity” by banning them…
By Sarah Marsh and Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) – German authorities said on Thursday they had arrested an employee of its foreign intelligence service (BND) on suspicion of sharing state…
(Reuters) -The United States’ top environmental non-profit and a regional land trust have raised $20 million to permanently protect 44,000 acres at an Alaskan watershed, that could be another major…
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world,…
By Zoey Zhang and Bernard Orr SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city’s…
By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – As Russian cruise missiles sped towards their target this month, a Ukrainian pilot gave chase in an old Soviet MiG-29 fighter jet and locked…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Department said vehicle travel rose by 0.1% in October to 285.9 billion miles as road travel is nearing pre-pandemic levels for the year. In…
Lobstermen To Receive New Protections In Spending Bill Jack McEvoy on December 21, 2022 A provision in the omnibus spending bill will freeze environmental regulations that are putting additional strain…
‘Abolish ICE’ Group Could Reap Millions From Congress’ Massive Spending Bill Jennie Taer on December 21, 2022 The massive congressional spending bill proposed in the Senate Tuesday would hand a…
Massive Spending Bill Slips In Decade-High Pell Grant Increase Alexa Schwerha on December 21, 2022 A trillion dollar spending bill being considered this week by Congress would increase the maximum…
Trans Advocacy Group Blasts South Dakota Over Terminated Contract To Create LGTBQ Health Program Kate Anderson on December 21, 2022 The Transformation Project (TP) criticized a move by Republican Governor…
REP. MATT GAETZ: Republicans Need A Real Leader, Not Kevin McCarthy Rep. Matt Gaetz on December 21, 2022 Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on…
REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: If Republicans Want To Get Things Done, There’s Only One Choice For House Speaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on December 21, 2022 Editor’s note: Big Tent…
Congress Spars Over Bill Giving Afghans Who Fled The Taliban A Path To Permanent Residence Micaela Burrow on December 21, 2022 Legislation to help Afghans who fled Kabul become permanent…
Blackburn Blasts Dems For Funding Border Security Abroad, But Not US Harold Hutchison on December 21, 2022 Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee blasted congressional Democrats Wednesday for a “double…