Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the deciding vote to pass Republicans’ massive social safety net cuts through the Senate. She said she didn’t like the bill, but voted for it anyway after getting Alaska exempted from some of its worst harms. By the thinnest possible margin, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to pass a budget that includes the […]
“The IAEA, which did not even formally condemn the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, has put its international credibility up for sale,” said Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. The Iranian parliament approved a bill Wednesday suspending its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The resolution states that weapons inspectors with the United […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin described the incident as “the most recent in a string of increasingly flagrant abuses of power by the Trump Administration to deter congressional oversight and intimidate Members of Congress.” A top House Democrat is launching a probe into the FBI’s forcible removal of Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) from a public press conference […]