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FILE - Gerald Groff, a former postal worker whose case will be argued before the Supreme Court, stands near a mail van outside the United States Post Office in Holtwood, Pa., Wednesday, March 8, 2023. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 29, used the case of a Christian mailman who didn't want to work Sundays to solidify protections for workers who are religious. In a unanimous decision the justices made clear that workers who ask for religious accommodations, such as taking the Sabbath off, should get them unless their employers show doing so would result in "substantial increased costs" to the business.

Supreme Court solidifies protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations

June 29, 2023, 8:26am Churches & Religion

The Supreme Court on Thursday used the case of a Christian mailman who didn't want to work Sundays to solidify protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations. Read story

FILE - Israel's President Isaac Herzog delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Monday, April 17, 2023. Israeli President Isaac Herzog will address a joint meeting of Congress on July 19 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Israel's statehood and to reaffirm the nation's special relationship with the United States, congressional leaders announced Thursday, June 29.

Israel’s President Herzog will address Congress to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its statehood

June 29, 2023, 8:13am Politics

Israeli President Isaac Herzog will address a joint meeting of Congress on July 19 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Israel’s statehood and to reaffirm his nation’s special relationship with the United States, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. Read story

President Joe Biden speaks with members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Chicago. Biden has started using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine at night to help with sleep apnea, the White House said Wednesday after indents from the mask were visible on his face.

President Biden has started using a CPAP machine at night to deal with sleep apnea

June 28, 2023, 2:22pm Politics

President Joe Biden in recent weeks has started using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine at night to help with sleep apnea, the White House said Wednesday. The revelation comes after indents from the mask were visible on the president’s face as he departed the White House. Read story

FILE - Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, May 28, 2023. Republicans in the House are increasingly threatening impeachment against Biden and his top Cabinet officials. Impeachment has traditionally been viewed as an option of last resort in Congress, to be used only for severe wrongdoing. But the constitutionally authorized power to charge officials with "high crimes and misdemeanors" is on the way to becoming routine. (AP Photo/J.

Threats of impeachment and censure used to be rare. In this Congress, they’re becoming routine

June 28, 2023, 1:47pm Politics

House Republicans have held it over Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for months. Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing it too. And President Joe Biden seemingly isn’t far behind. Read story

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani interviewed in Jan. 6 investigation

June 28, 2023, 8:57am Politics

Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team sought to overturn 2020 presidential election results in battleground states, was interviewed recently by investigators with the Justice Department special counsel’s office. Read story

FILE - Membes of the Wagner Group military company sit atop of a tank on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District.

U.S. sanctions gold firms connected to Russian Wagner mercenary group

June 27, 2023, 2:55pm Politics

The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four firms and one individual connected to the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenaries that led a brief revolt against the Kremlin last week. Read story

FILE - Rioters supporting President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan.

FBI and Homeland Security ignored ‘massive amount’ of intelligence before Jan. 6, Senate report says

June 27, 2023, 12:50pm Politics

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored “a massive amount of intelligence information” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that on Tuesday released a new report on the intelligence failures ahead of the insurrection. Read story

The Supreme Court is seen behind flowers, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Washington, as decisions are expected.

Supreme Court makes it more difficult to convict someone of making a threat

June 27, 2023, 9:25am Politics

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent threat. The case could make it harder for prosecutors to convict certain people who threaten elected officials, including the president. Read story

FILE - Reggie Weaver, at podium, speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., Feb. 15, 2022, about a partisan gerrymandering ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has ruled that North Carolina's top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state law. The justices on Tuesday rejected the broadest view of a case that could have transformed elections for Congress and president by leaving state legislatures virtually unchecked by their state courts when dealing with federal elections. (AP Photo/Gary D.

Supreme Court rejects GOP argument in North Carolina case that could have transformed US elections

June 27, 2023, 8:39am Politics

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state courts can act as a check on their legislatures in redistricting and other issues affecting federal elections, rejecting arguments by North Carolina Republicans that could have transformed contests for Congress and president. Read story

FILE - Walt Nauta, left, takes a phone from Former President Donald Trump during the LIV Golf Pro-Am at Trump National Golf Club, May 25, 2023, in Sterling, Va. Nauta is set to be arraigned on charges that he helped the former president hide classified documents that the Justice Department wanted back. Nauta was charged earlier this month alongside Trump in a 38-count indictment filed by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.

In an audio recording Donald Trump discusses a ‘highly confidential’ document with an interviewer

June 27, 2023, 8:39am Latest News

An audio recording from a meeting in which former President Donald Trump discusses a “highly confidential” document with an interviewer appears to undermine his later claim that he didn’t have such documents, only magazine and newspaper clippings. Read story

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