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A veteran journalist who is refusing to divulge her sources could be held in contempt of court

November 14, 2023, 8:07am Business

In a case with potentially far-reaching press freedom implications, a federal judge in Washington is weighing whether to hold in contempt a veteran journalist who has refused to identify her sources for stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged. Read story

Children’s Defense Fund program director Graciela Camarena assists Lucia Salazar with filling out Medicaid and SNAP application forms for her family in Pharr, Texas, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. As the state reviews Texans’ eligibility, some 1 million people have already lost Medicaid and organizations like the one Graciela works for assist people in applying again.

The Biden administration is slow to act as millions are booted off Medicaid, advocates say

November 14, 2023, 8:01am Health

Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty experts say the Biden administration is not doing enough to stop. Read story

Spate of retirements continues on Capitol Hill

November 14, 2023, 8:00am Politics

More than a half-dozen members of Congress have announced plans to retire, resign or run for other office just since Election Day one week ago. Read story

FILE - Asylum-seekers wait in a makeshift camp after crossing the nearby border with Mexico, Sept. 20, 2023, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. U.S. authorities say illegal border crossings from Mexico fell 14% in October from a month earlier, following three months of big increases. The decline comes during the resumption of deportation flights to Venezuela, shortly after Venezuelans replaced Mexicans as the largest nationality appearing at the border.

Illegal border crossings into the U.S. drop in October after a 3-month streak of increases

November 14, 2023, 8:00am Nation & World

Illegal border crossings from Mexico fell 14% in October from a month earlier, U.S. authorities said Tuesday, ending a three-month streak of big increases. Read story

Initiative to boost federal research into women’s health

November 13, 2023, 5:10pm Health

The Biden administration on Monday announced a White House initiative to improve how the federal government approaches and funds research into the health of women, who make up more than half of the U.S. population but remain understudied and underrepresented in health research. Read story

Alejandro Mayorkas, Homeland Security secretary

House readies test vote on impeaching Mayorkas

November 13, 2023, 3:54pm Nation & World

The House is holding a test vote Monday on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a step usually reserved for grave misconduct in office that is instead being wielded in an extraordinary effort to remove the Cabinet secretary for his handling of the southern border. Read story

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Supreme Court is adopting its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. The policy was issued by the court Monday. (AP Photo/J.

The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcement

November 13, 2023, 1:43pm Politics

The Supreme Court on Monday adopted its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices, but the code lacks a means of enforcement. Read story

FILE - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 31, 2023. The U.S. launched an airstrike on a facility in eastern Syria linked to Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for what has been a growing number of attacks on bases housing U.S.

U.S. conducts airstrikes against Iran-backed groups in Syria, retaliating for attacks on US troops

November 13, 2023, 8:20am Nation & World

The Pentagon and U.S. officials say U.S. fighter aircraft conducted airstrikes on locations in eastern Syria involving Iranian-backed groups, likely causing casualties and destroying weapons stored at the two targets that were struck — a training facility and a safe house. Read story

The Pentagon identifies the 5 US troops killed in a military helicopter crash over the Mediterranean

November 13, 2023, 8:15am Politics

The Pentagon on Monday identified the five Army aviation special operations forces killed when their UH-60 helicopter crashed in the Eastern Mediterranean. Read story

FILE - A secret service agent, July 20, 2022, in New York. Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter have opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in Washington. That’s according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on Monday. It happened Sunday night in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Secret Service agents protecting Biden’s granddaughter open fire when 3 people try to break into SUV

November 13, 2023, 8:15am Latest News

Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in the nation’s capital, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Read story

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