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WASHINGTON — Members of Congress reportedly cited an 8-year-old ethics investigation into Missouri Rep. Sam Graves, at a closed-door meeting Monday night, as an example of why they needed to rein in their independent ethics watchdog. Graves’ spokesman, Wesley Shaw, declined to say Tuesday how the congressman had voted in the secret ballot Monday, “due

Three Republican senators on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s official capital and move the U.S. Embassy to from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The new legislation, entitled the Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act, was introduced by Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Dean Heller of Nevada and Marco Rubio of Florida. “Jerusalem is

WASHINGTON — Before friends and family in a packed chamber, Kamala Harris was sworn in as California’s newest U.S. senator Tuesday morning. She became the first black woman the Golden State has sent to the Senate and the first Indian American to ever serve in the body. Harris, 52, a Democrat, was sworn in by

The Rev. Franklin Graham, the evangelical leader selected to grace the crowds at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration with a few religious words, attributed Trump’s election victory in November to the “hand of God” –and not Russian President Vladimir Putin. Graham is one of six religious leaders who have been selected to pray and read Bible

MIAMI — With little more than two weeks left in the Obama administration, and Congress on notice of a series of looming detainee transfers, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday for a cessation of Guantanamo prisoner releases. The Obama administration swiftly rejected the request. Expect announcements of additional transfers before Inauguration Day, White House spokesman Josh

The president of the NAACP led an occupation of Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Mobile, Alabama, office Tuesday, demanding that Sessions withdraw his name from consideration as attorney general of the incoming Trump administration. Between 15 and 30 activists, including Cornell Williams Brown, president of the NAACP, and Bernard Simleton, head of the group’s Alabama chapter, walked

Strident ad hominem attacks on President-Elect Donald Trump did not end with the new year. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Tuesday compared Trump to the late Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro. The Cuban leader, Cohen said on CNN, “loved to talk for long periods of time, hated disloyalty and dissent and eliminated it, and was very