Republicans in the House and Senate have tentatively reached an agreement on a bill that would fund DHS through the end of September.
Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation comes as the Department of Homeland Security is currently shut down due to the Republican refusal to reform ICE.
The ongoing DHS shutdown prompted CEOs of several major airlines to call on the Senate to reach an agreement so TSA agents can be paid again.
Kristi Noem is not having the best week after two days of getting batted around by members of Congress over ICE operations and tactics.
During a grueling Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Kristi Noem was brought face to face with some of those her agents have harmed.
The health care bill introduced by Senate Republicans doesn’t lower prices, but instead creates savings accounts for bronze-level ACA plans.
Republicans tried their damnedest to upstage the Senate vote confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson and reinforced the disrespect they've repeatedly directed toward the person poised to become the first Black woman U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Civil rights leaders expressed disappointment at the U.S. Senate's failure to advance key voting rights legislation and change the filibuster rule, but they were also resolute in their will to keep fighting for equal and fair elections in a crucial election year.
Almost 152 years since Black voting rights were established by the 15th Amendment, federal intervention to protect voting rights remains essential.
In the face of Republican opposition, Kamala Harris, the nation's first Black and woman vice president, cast the historic tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate to confirm Rachael Rollins as the first-ever Black woman to be U.S. attorney for Massachusetts.
Rachael Rollins was given the latest in a series of setbacks in her nomination process to be the first Black woman U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts after Senate Republicans disingenuously described Boston's DA as being "pro-crime."
The NAACP offered to bail out any Texas House Democrat who gets arrested for walking out of the chamber in an effort to block racist election laws from being enacted in that state.