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• Wife Pleas For Husband, 50, To Return 15-Year-Old He Allegedly Kidnapped As Search Continues

  19-03-2017 16:22
  
  They have been missing since Monday.
  
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• House Rules to weigh Garland contempt next week

  07-06-2024 20:04 via thehill.com
  
  The House Rules Committee will consider a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress next week, potentially clearing the way for a full House vote on the lingering legislation. The Tuesday meeting could indicate a shift in GOP dynamics after at least two Republicans privately said they planned to vote against the resolution. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said this week that lawmakers were buoyed by the recent guilty verdict handed down by a New
  
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• Mayorkas says Mike Johnson 'mistaken' in attack on border order

  07-06-2024 19:21 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) remarks during a Wednesday television appearance regarding President Biden's executive order limiting asylum at the southern border were "mistaken," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a Friday interview.Mayorkas was reacting to Johnson's comments in an interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto, during which Johnson told Cavuto that Biden could solve the border crisis and close the southern border entirely if he actually wanted to."If he [Presiden
  
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• House lawmakers mark D-Day with parachute jump over Normandy

  07-06-2024 18:16 via thehill.com
  
  A group of U.S. House lawmakers marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a commemorative parachute jump at Normandy.The group was organized by Reps. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Jason Crow (D-Colo.) and was comprised of 10 veteran congressman who traveled to France for the D-Day celebrations that mark the anniversary of the end of World War II.Waltz in a post on social media platform X joked that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La), a Christian, would be saying “extra prayers” for the grou
  
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• Biden invokes memory of Pointe du Hoc to make case for democracy

  07-06-2024 17:32 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday made the case for American democracy and its role on the world stage using the memory of veterans who stormed the beaches of France on D-Day 80 years ago.Biden delivered remarks from Pointe du Hoc, the 100-foot cliff in Normandy that Army Rangers scaled under gunfire to help turn the tide of World War II. He urged Americans not to forget the selflessness and bravery of those who fought that day, tying it directly to the global and domestic challenges the U.S. is facing
  
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• Minority groups' uninsured rates plummeted under Affordable Care Act: Research

  07-06-2024 16:32 via thehill.com
  
  Uninsured rates among minority groups in the U.S. plunged between 2010 and 2022, according to reports released Friday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).The increase in the number of insured people points to the impact of the Affordable Care Act, former President Obama's signature health law.
  The uninsured rate among Black Americans fell from 20.9 percent in 2010 to 10.8 percent in 2022, based on available census data analyzed in the reports.
  Among Latinos, the uninsured r
  
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• Jill Biden criss-crosses Atlantic to attend day 5 of Hunter Biden trial

  07-06-2024 15:54 via thehill.com
  
  Jill Biden arrived Friday morning at the Delaware courthouse where her step-son, Hunter Biden, is on trial after she skipped one day of the trial for a quick trip to France.The first lady was in France on Thursday for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, joining President Biden for his speech at the official ceremony and to meet with veterans.She is expected to be back in France on Saturday to join Biden for an official state visit with President Emmanuel Macron and first lady Brigitte Ma
  
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• Biden campaign co-chair calls Wall Street Journal report ‘hit job’

  07-06-2024 15:19 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden’s reelection campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu called the critical Wall Street Journal report about the president’s performance that sparked pushback from White House officials and Biden allies a “hit job.”“You have been to the White House. You have talked to the president. You all saw the president today. I can personally attest to this. I have worked there two years with him. I have been in many, many meetings with him. I thought that was a hit job
  
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• Biden meets with Zelensky, apologizes for delay in Ukraine aid

  07-06-2024 13:36 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday apologized to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky for the gap in U.S. funding for Ukraine's war against Russia amid GOP opposition, but vowed the White House is "thoroughly" supportive of Kyiv.Biden met with Zelensky in Normandy, where world leaders are gathered to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The U.S. president unveiled another $225 million aid package for Ukraine during the meeting."I apologize for the weeks of not knowing what’s going to
  
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• Biden border order on 'shaky legal ground,' immigration advocates say

  07-06-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  A new executive order from President Biden drastically curtailing asylum rights at the border is already facing threats of lawsuits from those who successfully toppled similar efforts from former President Trump.The Tuesday order from Biden borrows from an idea included in bipartisan Senate negotiations. It largely cuts off the right to seek asylum between ports of entry if border crossings tick above 2,500 a day over a seven-day average.While using border metrics as a basis to deny access to t
  
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• Netanyahu to address Congress on July 24

  07-06-2024 04:42 via thehill.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, top Republicans announced Thursday night.The top four Congressional leaders officially invited Netanyahu to speak to lawmakers on Friday, capping off weeks of speculation regarding whether or not the prime minister would be extended the opportunity to visit the Capitol amid Israel’s war against Hamas. Netanyahu accepted the invitation on Saturday.“The bipartisan, bicameral meeting symb
  
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• Emhoff to attend Washington Mystics game for gun violence awareness

  07-06-2024 04:33 via thehill.com
  
  Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is set to attend a Washington Mystics game on Friday to mark National Gun Violence Awareness Day.Emhoff will be attending the game at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., where the Mystics will take on WNBA star Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.National Gun Violence Awareness Day is an annual event on the first Friday in June and marks the beginning of “Wear Orange Weekend.”The weekend commemorates Hadiya Pendleton, who was shot and killed on a p
  
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• Biden on Trump’s ‘pathetic’ immigration criticism: ‘Is he describing himself?’

  07-06-2024 01:22 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday questioned whether former President Trump was talking about himself after his rival called an immigration executive order by the White House that was announced this week "pathetic."Trump this week said Biden's “executive order won’t stop the invasion, it’s weak, and it’s pathetic,” adding that he believed the order was just for show ahead of the debate coming up later this month.When asked by ABC’s David Muir to respond to Trump's c
  
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• Jordan seeks interview with top prosecutor on Trump Mar-a-Lago case

  07-06-2024 00:11 via thehill.com
  
  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is asking a top attorney on special counsel Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago case to sit for an interview with the panel, the latest escalation of its probes into those prosecuting former President Trump.A Thursday letter to Jay Bratt accused the prosecutor of raising the specter of impropriety by taking meetings at the White House. The inquiry gets at the heart of a favored but unsubstantiated GOP claim: that there may have been coordination between t
  
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• Warren endorses Bowman in contentious NY primary

  07-06-2024 00:01 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has endorsed Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) amid a contentious primary he faces to keep his seat, Bowman's campaign announced in a press release."Corporate interests are spending millions against Congressman Jamaal Bowman because he's fighting hard to deliver good jobs, quality education, Medicare for All, and a Green New Deal," Warren said in the release.The race between Bowman and Westchester County Executive George Latimer for the Democratic nomination for New Yor
  
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• Frustrated Democrats want Biden to follow asylum limit with immigrant protections

  06-06-2024 23:12 via thehill.com
  
  Hispanic Democrats are ramping up the pressure on President Biden to take unilateral action to protect immigrants living and working in the United States. Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) are furious that Biden moved this week to put new limits on asylum-seekers without also advancing legal protections for farmworkers, Dreamers and other undocumented immigrants — reforms they had presented during a meeting with the president at the White House last month.In the wake
  
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• Biden says he wouldn't pardon son Hunter amid federal gun trial

  06-06-2024 21:13 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said Thursday he would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden, and would accept the outcome of his son's federal gun trial, which is taking place in Delaware.ABC News anchor David Muir asked Biden in an interview in Normandy if he would accept the outcome of Hunter Biden's trial. Biden responded "yes."Biden also told Muir "yes" when asked if he would rule out a pardon for Hunter. The White House has previously said multiple times Biden would not pardon his son if he were convicted of a
  
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• Biden says he would not give pardon to son Hunter

  06-06-2024 21:13 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said Thursday he would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden, and would accept the outcome of his son's federal gun trial, which is taking place in Delaware.ABC News anchor David Muir asked Biden in an interview in Normandy if he would accept the outcome of Hunter Biden's trial. Biden responded "yes."Biden also told Muir "yes" when asked if he would rule out a pardon for Hunter. The White House has previously said multiple times Biden would not pardon his son if he were convicted of a
  
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• Republicans look to reverse new transgender student protections

  06-06-2024 20:56 via thehill.com
  
  More than 60 House Republicans are mounting a challenge to a Biden administration rule expanding federal nondiscrimination protections to transgender students. The Education Department in April unveiled a final set of sweeping changes to Title IX, the civil rights law preventing sex discrimination in schools and education programs that receive government funding. The new rule, which is slated to take effect Aug. 1, covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender ident
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez: There are ‘rules’ against what happened to Crockett

  06-06-2024 19:54 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) defended her response to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Georgia Republican accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) of being unable to read because her eyelashes were too long in a House Oversight Committee hearing last month.In an interview on the podcast "On with Kara Swisher," Ocasio-Cortez said she understands some may not be happy with the incident, but remains adamant that Crockett deserved to be defended. “I completely understand fol
  
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• Austin warns on D-Day the world must 'rally again' to defend freedom

  06-06-2024 17:27 via thehill.com
  
  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned on the 80th anniversary of D-Day that the world must "rally again" to defend freedom and uphold the international rules-based order.Austin, speaking in Normandy, France, to mark the anniversary, praised the Americans who stormed the beaches 80 years ago under fire from Nazi Germany for saving the world from tyranny."Our gratitude must never fade. Our memories must never dim. And our resolve must never fail," Austin said. "We still seek a world where aggressi
  
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• Biden: Putin 'not a decent man — he's a dictator'

  06-06-2024 14:53 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday said Russian President Vladimir Putin is "not a decent man" and "a dictator" who has concerned him for decades while addressing a shift in U.S. policy allowing Ukraine to strike near Russia's border with American weapons.Biden made the remarks in an interview with ABC World News anchor David Muir while in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Muir asked Biden about the recent decision to authorize Ukraine to use U.S. weapons to strike targets in
  
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• Biden invokes Ukraine’s fight against ‘tyrant’ in marking D-Day

  06-06-2024 14:40 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings with a tribute to the bravery of those who landed in Normandy while invoking Ukraine’s fight against “a tyrant,” appealing to Americans to remember the value of international alliances at a precarious moment in world affairs.Biden, speaking adjacent to the U.S. cemetery in Normandy in front of dozens of surviving World War II veterans, sought to connect the allied victory of 80 years ago directly to t
  
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• Donalds says media 'twisted' his words about Jim Crow era

  06-06-2024 14:25 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said late Wednesday that the media “twisted” his words about the Jim Crow era remarks he laid out during a campaign event earlier this week.Donalds seemed to suggest while speaking at a “Congress, Cognac, and Cigars” event in Philadelphia that Black families were better off during the Jim Crow era because they were "together," He also noted that, "more Black people were not just conservative — Black people have always been conservative-mi
  
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• Biden to veterans in Normandy: ‘You saved the world’

  06-06-2024 12:51 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden met with veterans who landed on the shores of Normandy beaches on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.The president and first lady Jill Biden stood in a small gazebo that looked out on Omaha beach and each veteran was announced and brought up to them by an active servicemember.The president shook hands with each of them and posed for a photograph.“A great honor, I mean it, seriously,” Biden said to one in an Army jacket.“The greatest generation ever,
  
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• Watch live: Biden speaks at D-Day Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony

  06-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  In observance of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, President Biden will deliver an address from near the shores of Normandy. It was on that region's beaches, along its cliffs and in its fields, that Allied troops began the liberation of France from Nazi occupation on June 6, 1944.Against the historic backdrop, Biden's visit is also part of his effort to reaffirm U.S. leadership in NATO in its commitment to the defense of Ukraine.The ceremony at Normandy is scheduled to begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT (US).
  
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• Watch: Biden speaks at D-Day Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony

  06-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  In observance of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, President Biden will deliver an address from near the shores of Normandy. It was on that region's beaches, along its cliffs and in its fields, that Allied troops began the liberation of France from Nazi occupation on June 6, 1944.Against the historic backdrop, Biden's visit is also part of his effort to reaffirm U.S. leadership in NATO in its commitment to the defense of Ukraine.The ceremony at Normandy is scheduled to begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT (US).
  
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• Do Democrats want Trump in jail? Most won't say

  06-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill may want to see former President Trump go to jail, but they don’t want to say so publicly.Though polls show an overwhelming majority of Democratic voters want Trump behind bars, Democrats generally are being careful with their on-the-record public remarks because they don’t want to be accused of trying to influence Manhattan criminal court judge Juan Merchan ahead of Trump’s July 11th sentencing.One exception is Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Te
  
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• Biden urges Congress to restore Roe v. Wade protections after Senate GOP blocks contraception bill

  06-06-2024 02:56 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden doubled down on his push for Congress to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law, after Senate Republicans blocked a bill from consideration Wednesday that would have established a federal right to birth control.“@VP and I believe that women in every state must have the freedom to make deeply personal health care decisions,” Biden wrote in a post on the social platform X, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris.“We’ll continue to fight to
  
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• Gaetz breaks from Trump with Bob Good endorsement

  06-06-2024 01:54 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday threw his support behind House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-Va.), who faces a Trump-backed primary challenger in a closely watched contest this month.“Vote for @RepBobGood,” Gaetz wrote on the social platform X late Tuesday night, reposting a separate statement from an X account that claimed to speak for all “MAGA” voters.“I speak for all of MAGA when I say, we don't want another McCarthy plant in Congress. We want Bob Good, o
  
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