Representative Liz Cheney has embraced a prominent role in the House investigation of the Jan. 6 attack, using her perch to hold up an unsparing mirror to the Republican Party. Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming is serving on the Jan.…
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Lawyers called a torture expert in a bid to spare a defendant a nauseating commute from prison to court by having him spend nights at Guantánamo Bay’s court compound. The defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, is accused of being the mastermind of the…
A passenger waits to board an Amtrak train at Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Station during the morning commute. Amtrak has temporarily dropped its mandate for all employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, a requirement that the rail service had said would likely…
Xavier Becerra, the secretary of health and human services, at a Senate hearing in June. Xavier Becerra, the secretary of health and human services, hinted on Tuesday that the Biden administration may need to ask Congress for more money to…
Yakov Feygin’s professional title as the associate director of the future of capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute reveals with uncanny precision what his mission consists of. The Berggruen Institute seeks to “better understand how a global capitalism can be…
The White House on Friday defended three Democratic board members at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. who moved to wrest control away from the banking agency’s Republican chairman — a maneuver GOP lawmakers blasted as a “coup.” The partisan battle…
The EU’s top court Tuesday (14 December) ruled that Bulgaria must issue an identity document or passport to the stateless baby of a same-sex couple from Bulgaria and Gibraltar. The case concerns a girl who was born in 20
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has applied to become Norway’s next central bank governor, he said on Tuesday (14 December), raising questions about the bank’s independence from the government if he were to be appointed. Stoltenberg and his main rival…
Despite an earlier decision not to comment, Renew Europe, the liberal political group in the European Parliament, came out in support of their member party Progressive Slovakia after the Slovak intelligence services labelled it as “