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Democratic constituents host town hall for District 10 U.S. House Rep. Mike Collins Red and Black Source link
The Texas race for a vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives will feature a number of Black Catholics, including former Houston city councilwoman Amanda Edwards and Democratic consultant Isaiah Martin. The heavily Democratic 18th congressional district was represented by former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner for just two months before his unexpected death in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a lengthy call Tuesday to an immediate pause in strikes against energy and infrastructure targets in the Ukraine war, but the Russian leader stopped short of backing a broader 30-day pause in fighting that the U.S. administration is pressing for. The White […]
Washington — President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Tuesday in a lengthy phone call, in which the White House and the Kremlin said they agreed to begin negotiations “immediately” to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine. The call lasted at least 90 minutes, as indicated by the timing of White House updates, but the exact […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump pledges overhaul of Kennedy Center in first visit as board chair Donald Trump visited the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday for the first time since making himself its new chair, threatening to shutter an expensive […]
Two judges ordered US President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers who lost their jobs as part of mass firings across multiple government agencies. The federal judges, one in the US state of Maryland, the other in California, separately found legal problems with the way the mass terminations were carried […]
First Black Female U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun to Join House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch at Women in Power PR Newswire Source link
Several Senate Democrats are not tipping their hand yet on whether they would vote for a funding package to keep the government open until the end of September, as they wait to see if the House can pass it this afternoon. Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said, “I’m going to wait to see how I’m going […]
The US Secret Service shot a man outside the White House early on Sunday after an “armed confrontation”, the service said in a statement. It had earlier received a tip-off from local police about a “suicidal individual who may be travelling to Washington DC from Indiana”, it said. Its officers approached a man matching that […]
The Secret Service shot an armed man near the White House, the agency has said. The incident happened shortly after midnight on Sunday following an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement, according to the agency. The incident happened near the intersection of 17th Street and F Street NW – less than a five-minute walk from the […]