WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, will announce plans for her future in a speech on the House floor Thursday, a spokesman said. Pelosi’s consequential decision — to stay on as Democratic leader after two decades in the job or step aside for a new generation of leaders — comes just …
House Republican members have threatened to investigate Biden and elements of his administration since early in his presidency. But only starting in January, following their projected retaking of the House majority on Wednesday, will they have the ability to set the agenda for the House and its committees. Asked about potential Republican investigations, McCarthy made …
Nov. 17, 2022, 2:22 AM UTC By Ali Vitali, Haley Talbot and Ryan Nobles WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is likely to make her future plans clear as soon this week, possibly even tomorrow, multiple sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. As Democrats celebrate overperforming expectations in the midterm elections, a …
Efforts to subvert the election on Jan. 6 were “never disclosed to or discussed with the nominee electors at any time,” the electors’ attorneys wrote. It’s a notable explanation from the state GOP officials and activists who signed certificates claiming to be Georgia’s legitimate presidential electors on Dec. 14, 2020. At the time, Trump was …
Every employer with five or more workers in California is required either to sponsor a retirement plan or to sign their workers up for CalSavers, the system of Individual Retirement Accounts set up by the state. And hundreds of employers that haven’t complied will soon get one last chance to avoid being penalized by the …
“States still need to prove they can get it done. For some, now, that might be harder to do,” said one DNC committee member, who was granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations candidly. The DNC’s decision to postpone the vote from August to December, the committee member acknowledged, “opened a whole different set of problems.” …
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Monday he will host a meeting of leaders from Latin America this month, including most of the recently elected leftists. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the presidents of Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia are coming to Mexico City. López Obrador said he is awaiting confirmation on whether Brazil’s …
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that civilians in Ukraine’s Kherson region should be evacuated from the conflict zone, the Kremlin chief’s first acknowledgement of a deteriorating situation in a region he claims to have annexed. “Now, of course, those who live in Kherson should be removed from the zone of the most dangerous …
Twitter was also fined $150 million in May for violating the terms of a 2011 agreement with the FTC over the company’s improper use of phone numbers to target ads. Former agency officials who spoke to POLITICO said the commission will be on high alert for anything that violates the settlement. The commission is also …
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