Politics

Crickets, and not microwaves wielded by a foreign adversary, are believed to be responsible for the noises connected to strange symptoms affecting U.S. diplomats in Cuba, according to a declassified report ordered by the State Department and obtained by BuzzFeed News. The noises were believed to be linked to “Havana …

The following is an excerpt from Spencer Ackerman’s new book, “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump,” out now. Every Republican national leader since 9/11 had backed the harshest possible prosecution of the War on Terror. Even Mitt Romney pledged to double Guantanamo. Those relatively …

Attendees of Trump’s rally were less than pleased when Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), whose remarks immediately preceded the former president’s, brought up the 2020 election and told the crowd to “put that behind you.” “There are some people who are despondent about the voter fraud and election theft in 2020,” …

The federal government is investigating mysterious health incidents among U.S. diplomats and government employees in Vienna, Austria. Since Biden took office in January of this year, around two dozen U.S. intelligence officials, diplomats and government employees in Vienna have reported symptoms, the New Yorker reported on Friday. “In coordination with …

The war between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Biden administration is escalating. On Monday, a lawyer for the Department of Health and Human Services threatened legal action against the state of Texas if Abbott does not back down from his plan to de-license Texas shelters housing migrant children on …

A record number of Americans have their health insurance through “Obamacare.” As of early 2021, nearly 31 million people were receiving healthcare benefits as part of the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law by former president Barack Obama. The White House announced the numbers in a report on …

As the U.S. vaccination rates rise, the White House unveiled its plan to distribute 25 million vaccine doses from its federal pool of supply to other countries in need. “As long as this pandemic is raging anywhere in the world, the American people will still be vulnerable,” Biden said in …

The House GOP Conference voted on Wednesday morning to boot Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her position as conference chairwoman, the number three position in the party’s leadership. The voice vote, held during a private meeting in the basement of the Capitol, was the second attempt to remove Cheney for …

This week the Biden administration will begin the process of reuniting migrant families who were separated by former president Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, the Department of Homeland Security announced. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said four families who were separated at the Mexico border are expected to be reunited this week. …

Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham denied the existence of systemic racism in America and used the elections of former President Barack Obama and current Vice President Kamala Harris as his “proof.” In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace showed the senator a video clip of President …