The new year will place new hurdles in the path of North Carolina’s current and future governors before states of emergency they issue can extend into months or even years, as happened during the COVID-19…
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Boston arrested a Brazilian criminal fugitive Wednesday in Worcester, Massachusetts, who was convicted in Brazil and sought by police there, according to a report. Jaconias Rosa Pereira,…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci’s wife Christine Grady serves in a leadership role overseeing bioethics research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a position that doesn’t give her oversight of her husband’s work. Earlier this week,…
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Democratic Rep. GK Butterfield of North Carolina has resigned early from Congress, his office announced. Butterfield’s resignation comes just ahead of Tuesday, when his term would come to an end. The representative previously announced his…
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Washington, DC – The repeal of the military’s vaccine mandate put this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, in the spotlight. The repeal, however, is just one of the many provisions attached to the $847…
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ICE deportations remained well below Trump-era levels in FY 2022, amid historic border crisis
Deportations of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in FY 2022 rose slightly compared to the prior fiscal year, although still significantly lower than during the Trump administration, as ICE diverted significant resources…
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Biden-district Republicans say McCarthy will be speaker, whether by ‘1 ballot or 100 ballots or more’
Republicans who won seats in districts taken by President Biden in 2020 backed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for speaker, with one vowing the top House Republican would be in charge whether it takes…
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Chasten Buttigieg came to the defense of his husband, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, as critics in his own party accuse him of failing to prevent the ongoing airline crisis. The DOT secretary is facing…
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‘Missing in action’: Pilots, travel experts blast Buttigieg’s lack of ‘competent leadership’ in flight fiasco
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is not doing enough to fix the flight crisis affecting thousands of Americans this holiday season, according to several former pilots and aviation experts who say the former mayor is…
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President Biden granted full pardons to six individuals Friday who have served their sentences and have since turned their lives around to become valued members of their communities, the White House said. Among those pardoned…