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The Senate on Tuesday voted 57-40 to overturn a federal requirement that passengers on U.S. airplanes and other modes of public transportation wear masks.The Congressional Review Act measure, introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is the latest salvo in a fight between congressional Republicans and the Biden administration over public health requirements related to the…Continue Reading

A jury is set to be picked Wednesday that will decide whether Rep. Jeff Fortenberry lied to federal authorities who were investigating illegal contributions to the Nebraska Republican’s 2016 reelection campaign.Opening statements are also expected to begin Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, before Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr.Fortenberry faces charges of lying to…Continue Reading

After years of lobbying and stalled legislative efforts, appropriators set aside funds in the newly enacted $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package to equip aging military vehicles with technology that experts say will make them safer. The law includes $183 million for the Army to install anti-lock brake systems with electronic stability control kits on some of the service’s Humvees,…Continue Reading

Posted March 15, 2022 at 5:30pmANALYSIS — One branch of government’s white flag is another’s green light.The Constitution “grants and constrains presidential power,” as several experts have put it. But, yet again, lawmakers are somewhat counterintuitively working to expand the purview of the Executive Office of the President.That assessment of the country’s founding document and…Continue Reading

Like most presidents, Donald Trump changed the political party he led. But Trump was hardly a normal president. That was apparent while Trump was president, but in many ways that’s even easier to understand now that he is out of office. Unlike previous presidents, Trump has refused to take a step back from the limelight.…Continue Reading

They called her Little Miss Nobody.The partially buried remains of a 4-year-old girl found in the Arizona desert by a teacher and his family on a rock hunt went unidentified for six decades until DNA testing revealed her name.On Tuesday, police announced the slain child was Sharon Lee Gallegos, who was abducted in 1960 while…Continue Reading

Spooks from Langley to Kyiv are likely to be quietly untangling an espionage conundrum that dare not speak its name, according to a former senior intelligence agent who was once regularly involved in such discussions: “Could President Putin really be assassinated?”“The operation is on every intelligence agency’s design table,” a veteran clandestine operative for France’s…Continue Reading

Jeanine Pirro spent several minutes on Tuesday yelling about how President Joe Biden is a “wuss” who is “destroying the West” through his response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine – in other words, just another day on the Fox News roundtable show The Five.Pirro began her rant by asking co-host Geraldo Rivera why Russian…Continue Reading