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Will the government crack down on bots after Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift meltdown?

November 29, 2022, 3:48pm Politics

After Ticketmaster fumbled its sales of Taylor Swift’s Eras stadium tour tickets earlier this month, the company blamed “bot attacks” and fans for the meltdown. Read story

Attorneys of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, James Lee Bright, left, and Phillip Linder, arrive at the Federal Courthouse during the Rhodes trial in Washington, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Jury deliberations are underway.

Oath Keepers founder guilty of seditious conspiracy in 1/6 case

Attorneys of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, James Lee Bright, left, and Phillip Linder, arrive at the Federal Courthouse during the Rhodes trial in Washington, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Jury deliberations are underway.

November 29, 2022, 2:24pm Latest News

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential win, handing the Justice Department a major victory in its massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Read story

A new foreign policy headache for Biden as Israel forms its most right-wing government ever

November 25, 2022, 8:14am Politics

The Biden administration is grappling with how to deal with a new Israeli government that will be the most right-wing in that country’s history and may stand in the way of core U.S. goals for the Middle East. Read story

Biden calls Club Q owners, vows to seek assault weapons ban

November 24, 2022, 5:34pm Nation & World

President Joe Biden spoke Thursday with the owners of an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., where five people were killed in a mass shooting, offering a sign of support as he pushes to ban assault weapons. Read story

Advocates, industry push data privacy bill in lame-duck session

November 22, 2022, 8:14am Politics

Privacy advocates and industry groups are urging lawmakers to get a bipartisan federal data privacy bill passed soon: either early in the new Congress or even in the remaining weeks of the lame duck session. Read story

Oath Keeper’s lawyer tells jury ‘hoodlums’ caused Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol

November 21, 2022, 10:28am Politics

Members of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia on trial for seditious conspiracy “didn’t touch or push open a single door, or break any windows” as the U.S. Capitol was overrun by a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters, a defense lawyer told jurors on Monday. Read story

FILE - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., right, and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., arrive to speak with members of the press after a House Republican leadership meeting, Nov. 15, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCarthy won the House Speaker nomination from his colleagues, while Scalise was voted majority leader. Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president's son.

House GOP pushes Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority

FILE - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., right, and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., arrive to speak with members of the press after a House Republican leadership meeting, Nov. 15, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCarthy won the House Speaker nomination from his colleagues, while Scalise was voted majority leader. Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president's son.

November 19, 2022, 1:33pm Latest News

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power next year to investigate the Biden administration and, in particular, the president’s son. Read story

Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.

Biden administration to ask high court to take up student debt plan

Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.

November 17, 2022, 4:31pm Latest News

The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing warning that Americans will face financial strain if the plan remains stalled in court when loan payments are scheduled to restart in January. Read story

Newly-elected members of Congress pose for a class photo on the East Front of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.

Electoral reforms part of packed agenda in final weeks of congressional session

Newly-elected members of Congress pose for a class photo on the East Front of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.

November 16, 2022, 2:20pm Politics

With the elections (mostly) in the rearview mirror, Congress returned to Washington on Monday to address some of its unfinished business in the weeks remaining in the current session. One agenda item that still stands a chance is an update to the Electoral Count Act. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University, Oct. 21, 2022, in Dover, Del. Biden is facing mounting pressure to extend a pause on student loan payments after his cancellation plan suffered a pair of legal blows. Advocates say Biden should continue the pandemic-era payment pause until legal issues are resolved.

Biden facing pressure to extend student loan payment pause

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University, Oct. 21, 2022, in Dover, Del. Biden is facing mounting pressure to extend a pause on student loan payments after his cancellation plan suffered a pair of legal blows. Advocates say Biden should continue the pandemic-era payment pause until legal issues are resolved.

November 15, 2022, 2:27pm Politics

In the days and weeks before the midterm election, President Joe Biden trumpeted his plan to cancel billions in student loans as he rallied young people to support Democrats. Read story