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Retirement savings bill passes House as Senate deliberates

March 30, 2022, 8:21am Business

The House passed a bipartisan package aimed at growing Americans’ retirement savings Tuesday evening, sending it to the Senate with broad bipartisan backing. Read story

Administration, health experts nervously eye new virus variants

March 30, 2022, 8:13am Health

The new COVID-19 subvariant isn’t yet causing concern among public health officials, but experts warn that the U.S. is not prepared for future variants or surges. Read story

Ginni Thomas faces possible House interview over Jan. 6 texts

March 29, 2022, 9:07am Politics

The House panel investigating last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is likely to seek an interview with Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, concerning her text messages with a top White House official about overturning the 2020 election, officials familiar with the matter said. Read story

President Joe Biden listens to a question from a reporter about Russian President Vladimir Putin after speaking about his proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, March 28, 2022, in Washington.

Biden says remark on Putin’s power was about ‘moral outrage’

President Joe Biden listens to a question from a reporter about Russian President Vladimir Putin after speaking about his proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, March 28, 2022, in Washington.

March 28, 2022, 1:12pm Politics

President Joe Biden said Monday that he would make “no apologies” and wasn't “walking anything back” after his weekend comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power." The president also insisted he's not calling for regime change in Moscow. Read story

Supreme Court to hear battle over War Powers and veterans’ lawsuits

March 28, 2022, 8:38am Politics

The Supreme Court hears argument Tuesday over a federal law that gives employment protections for military service members who return from duty, and lawmakers have warned the justices that they are critical for recruiting and retaining armed forces. Read story

FILE - Cars drive past a destroyed Russian tank as a convoy of vehicles evacuating civilians leaves Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Thousands of patients in Ukraine are receiving lifesaving medicines to treat HIV and opioid addiction through a U.S.-funded group still operating despite the Russian invasion. Supplies are running short and making deliveries is a complicated calculus with unpredictable risks.

U.S.-backed group gets lifesaving meds to Ukrainians amid war

FILE - Cars drive past a destroyed Russian tank as a convoy of vehicles evacuating civilians leaves Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Thousands of patients in Ukraine are receiving lifesaving medicines to treat HIV and opioid addiction through a U.S.-funded group still operating despite the Russian invasion. Supplies are running short and making deliveries is a complicated calculus with unpredictable risks.

March 27, 2022, 2:42pm Nation & World

Thousands of patients in Ukraine are receiving lifesaving medicines to treat HIV and opioid addiction through a U.S.-funded group still operating despite the Russian invasion. Supplies are running short and making deliveries is a complicated calculus with unpredictable risks. Read story

ICE to stop using Alabama jail, limit use of 3 others

March 25, 2022, 2:30pm Politics

Federal immigration authorities announced Friday that they'll stop housing detainees at an Alabama jail with a history of problems and will limit the use of three other detention centers. Read story

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Jackson’s Supreme Court hearings focused a lot on child porn, thanks to Sen. Josh Hawley

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

March 24, 2022, 2:45pm Politics

By late afternoon on the third day of her U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing, it appeared Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had had enough. Read story

White House to seek $813.3 billion national security budget

March 24, 2022, 8:43am Politics

President Joe Biden plans to request $813.3 billion in national security spending — including $773 billion for the Pentagon — in the federal budget he will send to Congress on Monday, according to officials familiar with the plan. Read story

President Joe Biden speaks at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 17, 2022.

Biden takes tough-on-Putin message to fractious allies

President Joe Biden speaks at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 17, 2022.

March 23, 2022, 12:45pm Politics

President Joe Biden faces a crucial test of his ability to project power and reassurance amid the biggest European security crisis in decades, as he seeks to rally U.S. allies around harder-hitting sanctions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine. Read story