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Leaders of the Capitol Police and National Guard units warned of imminent cuts if Congress did not act to backfill expenditures made in the wake of the Capitol attack....

The vote came after several Republicans dropped their objections and the Senate agreed to require a report on the Afghan visa program....

Ahead of next week's public meeting of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, it seemed like a good time to check in on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the newly constituted board . The three new members—Anton Hajjar, former general coun...

As millions of Americans face possible evictions, NBC News Morgan Radford brings the latest from Mississippi....

Andrea Mitchell is joined by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, former 9/11 commission chair, and Jamie Gorelick, 9/11 commission member and former Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, to discuss the January 6th committee's inve...

The bill would genuinely impact many people's lives....

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the COVID situation in Missouri, as cases surge with the spread of the Delta Variant. The Mayor pushes back on statements made by the Attorney General who asserted that mask mandates are for...

Former Senior Advisor of the White House Covid Response Team, Andy Slavitt discusses what's taking the FDA so long to give final approval to Covid vaccines....

Andrea Mitchell is joined by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), an Iraq War Veteran and co-sponsor of a bill to help streamline the Special Immigrant Visa process as the first round of Afghan interpreters arrive today in Fort Lee, a US army base in Virginia....

For months, Charlie Kirk has been on a relentless campaign against the COVID-19 vaccine, spreading fear and misinformation. Turning Point USA, the organization Kirk founded, has likewise been garnering donations from spreading hesitancy and conspiracy the...

The outgoing 'View' co-host complained that "people automatically assume [I'm] going to be a lazy, spoiled brat" whenever she's taken on a new job....

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Given the absolute onslaught of news we've experienced in recent months (if not recent years), it can feel like the presidential debates for the 2020 election happened a lifetime ago. Many of us here at Daily Kos recall the countless times Massachuset...

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday issued an executive order instructing the National Guard to assist state law enforcement officers in stopping civilian drivers and contractors who they believe are transporting migrants who have recently cros...

As the Senate moves forward with a bipartisan infrastructure bill, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) says "this bill is a big deal."...

Many right-wingers' ridiculous analogies are via religious leaders -- lies, hysterical gibberish, and unserious to the point of absurdity that you can't even quantify. CBN's David Brody is now leading the charge to start a movement of the unva...

The conservative House Freedom Caucus is calling for the removal of Reps. Liz Cheney, of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, from the Republican conference, after joining the bipartisan House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack....

The Biden administration is planning to increase mileage and pollution standards for cars and trucks, sources tell NBC News....

Many Republicans don't see the difference between Democrats, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger. It says a lot about the state of the contemporary GOP....

Stacey Abrams's voting rights group has been urging voters to call members of Congress, now it's bringing them to Washington to lobby lawmakers in person....

Facebook has barely taken any action in response to Media Matters' July 20 report on anti-vaccine groups spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation; nearly 85% of anti-vaccine groups that we identified are still active, new groups have been created, an...

Senior Scholar at John Hopkins Canter for Health Security, Dr. Amesh Adalja joins Telemundo's Jose Diaz-Balart to discuss whether or not companies should require vaccinations for employment....

Last Wednesday, Senate Republicans unanimously filibustered a procedural vote to agree to move forward on the infrastructure plan a handful of them had been negotiating with the White House and a handful of Senate Democrats. They couldn't possibly agr...

On July 27, four officers gave riveting testimony during the first hearing by the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. That evening, Fox News' prime-time hosts did everything in their power to dismiss, downplay, and mock th...

The debate over the attorney general's reckoning with Trump's legacy, explained....

Telemundo's Jose Diaz-Balart is joined by New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez to discuss his calls for the U.S to take further action in Cuba....

Robinhood is setting out to capitalize on the day-trading boom it helped create....

During Wednesday's Ingraham Angle, guest and sometimes host Raymond Arroyo , who writes religious books and hosts a show on a Catholic network, made believe he was a sex abuse expert and attacked Simone Biles for not "sticking the landing in the O...

The moratorium on residential evictions is scheduled to expire on Saturday....

Fox News host Tucker Carlson's bombshell allegation that the National Security Agency is illegally spying on him as part of a plot by the federal government to destroy his show has withered away since he first offered it in late June. But rather than ...

The Fox News host's baseless comments come amid a period of rising cases from the delta variant and low vaccinate rates....

As the far right continues its bid to make a martyr out......

GOP senators previously insisted that any question about a nominee's faith constitutes religious bigotry....

It's worked before....

Texas Democrats who fled their state in order to block passage of new voting laws testify on Capitol Hill and are planning to meet with Stacey Abrams and the Clintons in hopes to push for federal action on voting rights. NBC's Jane Timm has details....

On July 28, the team behind the sham "audit" of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, finally released donation data showing who funded the process and how much money they provided. According to Cyber Ninjas' press release, Vo...

Today's installment of campaign-related news items from across the country....

Some of the most riveting and disturbing testimony at Tuesday's opening Jan. 6 Commission hearing came from Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, an African American man who was bombarded with racist epithets and threats while battling insurrectionists, ...

This sounds familiar! Donald Trump pretended to be an expert in business and making money. He endorsed the multi-level marketing company ACN and had their representatives on The Apprentice TV show twice. The implications were clear: "Donald Trump know...

After losses in Texas, former President Trump's advisers are worried about his 'party clout,' according to new Politico reporting....

Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes joins Ayman to discuss athletes' mental health at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after Simone Biles' withdrawal from the competition....

A new report out reveals that virtually all children fell behind in reading and math learning over the course of the pandemic, with some students disproportionately affected. NWEA senior research scientist, Karyn Lewis, and Harlem Children's Zone Pres...

NBC News is tracking the progress toward President Joe Biden's July 4 vaccination goals: 160 million adults fully vaccinated and 70 percent of adults with at least one shot of a Covid-19 vaccination....

House Problem Solvers Caucus Co-chairs, Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), joined Stephanie Ruhle to react to the Senate's key vote advancing the bipartisan infrastructure package. Fitzpatrick says he feels...

Hours after the bipartisan group of senators behind the "hard" infrastructure package......

The ban on evictions, which came in response to the pandemic and has been in place for nearly 11 months, is set to expire Saturday....

The Trump administration successfully stonewalled a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for the messages during his first impeachment....

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responds to Wednesday's Senate vote advancing the Biden-backed bipartisan infrastructure package and discusses the president's expected announcement to require federal workers get the Covid-19 vaccine or sub...

The Green Knight is a most excellent adventure....

Sports journalists and co-hosts of 'Tokyo Tonight' on Peacock, Cari Champion and Kenny Mayne discuss the latest in the 2020 Olympics....