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Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., said the report shows "the FBI is continuing to fail victims."

Watchdog finds FBI fell short on child sexual abuse allegations

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted August 29, 2024 at 2:04pm
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during day two of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago this month.

Biden faces hurdles to match Trump on judicial appointments

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted August 28, 2024 at 11:58am
Arkansas Republican Rep. Rick Crawford.

Crawford, former members argue in court for back pay

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted August 23, 2024 at 5:56pm
Then-Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., holds a news conference outside the Capitol in November 2023 to discuss an upcoming vote to expel him from Congress.

Former Rep. George Santos pleads guilty to two federal charges

By Ryan Tarinelli and Michael Macagnone
Posted August 19, 2024 at 5:52pm
President Joe Biden makes his way to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in May.

House Republicans release report on Biden impeachment inquiry

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted August 19, 2024 at 1:22pm
An American flag and the TikTok logo.

US sues TikTok over privacy of children under 13 years old

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted August 2, 2024 at 3:49pm
FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate testifies Tuesday during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Judiciary joint committee hearing on the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

No definitive motive determined yet for Trump shooter, FBI says

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 30, 2024 at 1:38pm
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing for the agency Wednesday.

FBI director tells House panel details about Trump rally shooting

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 24, 2024 at 1:23pm
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez plans to resign after being convicted on federal corruption charges.

Facing possible expulsion, Menendez plans to resign from Senate

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 23, 2024 at 5:10pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks to reporters in the Senate subway after a vote in January.

Senate panel takes step toward potential Menendez expulsion

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 22, 2024 at 6:35pm
Kimberly Cheatle, director of the U.S. Secret Service, testifies Monday during the House Oversight and Accountability hearing on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

House panel grills Secret Service director over Trump security

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 22, 2024 at 2:15pm
Police stand guard near protesters in front of the Supreme Court in 2018 on the day Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh heard his first oral arguments.

Prosecutors seek trial in Supreme Court assassination plot case

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 19, 2024 at 3:47pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., exits Manhattan federal court Tuesday in New York City after a jury found him guilty on all 16 counts in a sweeping corruption case.

Menendez faces calls to resign after bribery conviction

By Ryan Tarinelli and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 16, 2024 at 2:36pm, Updated at 4:10pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives Tuesday for the second day of jury deliberations in his federal bribery case in New York City.

Sen. Bob Menendez convicted on all counts in corruption trial

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 16, 2024 at 1:28pm, Updated at 3:04pm
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., right, and ranking member Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., talk before a hearing.

Congress launches investigations of security failure at Trump rally

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 15, 2024 at 4:27pm, Updated at 5:50pm
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks during a June 26 news conference on efforts to hold Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in inherent contempt of Congress.

House rejects ‘inherent contempt’ resolution for Garland over tape of Biden interview

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 11, 2024 at 11:41am
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez faces federal corruption charges in a New York trial that is seeing closing arguments this week.

Defense tells Menendez jurors that prosecutors provided ‘zero evidence’ of action taken because of a bribe

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 10, 2024 at 11:12am
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., faces federal corruption charges in New York.

Menendez ‘put his power up for sale,’ say prosecutors in closing arguments in Manhattan trial

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 9, 2024 at 10:37am
Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., chairman of the House Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee, said the fiscal 2025 spending bill would restrain the "politically motivated and weaponized" Justice Department.

House Commerce-Justice-Science riders would limit Biden on guns

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 9, 2024 at 5:00am
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives for trial last month in New York City.

Sen. Bob Menendez begins defense in corruption trial

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 2, 2024 at 2:47pm
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, attends a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a meeting of the House Republican Conference last month.

House panel files lawsuit to obtain Biden audio recording

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 1, 2024 at 6:20pm
Protesters hold signs in front of the Supreme Court in Washington while waiting Monday for the court to announce its decision on presidential immunity.

Historians, legal experts express dismay at Trump immunity ruling

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 1, 2024 at 3:15pm
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., chair of the Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee, is sure to oppose the Justice Department funding cuts sought by House Republicans.

Law enforcement funding battle

By David Lerman, Ryan Tarinelli and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 1, 2024 at 3:14pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives for trial June 11 at federal court in New York City.

Prosecution rests in Sen. Bob Menendez corruption trial

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 28, 2024 at 4:10pm
Chairman Harold Rogers speaks during a House Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the fiscal 2025 budget request for the Department of Justice on April 16. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland testified.

Justice Department agencies have warned of budget cut fallout

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 27, 2024 at 5:01pm
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., speaks to reporters during a news conference last fall.

Senate Democrats try maneuver to pass ban on ‘bump stocks’

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 18, 2024 at 6:23pm
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland waits to testify during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in April.

Garland won’t face contempt of Congress charge over Biden audio

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 14, 2024 at 4:55pm
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is seen during a break in testimony earlier this month at a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department.

House Republicans hold Garland in contempt over audio recordings

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 12, 2024 at 5:38pm
From left, Reps. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., James R. Comer, R-Ky., Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., testify Tuesday on a resolution recommending that the House find Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt of Congress, during a House Rules Committee meeting.

House GOP tees up vote on contempt of Congress for Garland

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 11, 2024 at 8:30pm
Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Donald Trump, departs the federal courthouse in Washington on Thursday.

Bannon told to report to prison on contempt of Congress charges

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 6, 2024 at 2:20pm
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is seen during a break in testimony at the House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.

Garland laments ‘unprecedented’ GOP attacks on Justice Department and vows not to be ‘intimidated’

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 4, 2024 at 2:35pm
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol in April.

Jordan urges GOP to use spending bills to hamper Trump cases

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 3, 2024 at 5:58pm
Senate Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., led a group of panel Democrats in a letter about pay at federal prisons.

Senate Democrats urge action to increase federal prison pay rates

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 3, 2024 at 1:52pm
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in January.

Jordan asks Trump prosecutors to testify to ‘weaponization’ panel

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 31, 2024 at 2:34pm
Trump leaves Manhattan Criminal Court after he was convicted Thursday on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records.

Trump guilty verdict prompts sharp reactions from lawmakers

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 30, 2024 at 6:36pm
Former President Donald Trump makes comments to the media Thursday as he returns to court for his hush money trial in Manhattan.

As Trump faced trial, key GOP lawmakers aided his public defense

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 30, 2024 at 5:44pm
Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Karen Gibson testifies at a May 22 budget hearing. Her agency has helped with security trainings at 43 senators’ state offices and is “working through” a pilot program to strengthen windows with ballistic film, she told senators.

Staffers bear the brunt of threats aimed at district offices

By Ryan Tarinelli and Justin Papp
Posted May 29, 2024 at 5:00am
Paul Pelosi, the husband of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attends a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, the nation's highest civilian honor, earlier this month in the East Room of the White House. Rep. Pelosi was one of the recipients.

Paul Pelosi attacker sentenced to 30 years in prison

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 17, 2024 at 4:30pm
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leads a markup Thursday on whether to recommend holding Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt of Congress.

White House move doesn’t deter House panels on Garland contempt

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 16, 2024 at 2:13pm, Updated at 11:21pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives at federal court in New York City for his corruption trial.

Menendez defense focuses on ‘doing his job’ as senator

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 16, 2024 at 11:14am
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., said Wednesday’s hearing builds on the panel’s efforts to educate the public on the aims of foreign adversaries and to make sure the U.S. government is positioned to defend its elections from foreign threats.

Government officials warn of complex threats to US elections

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 15, 2024 at 6:46pm
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland waits to testify during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing last month.

House GOP details case for contempt of Congress against Garland

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 13, 2024 at 6:11pm
A conviction could result in prison time for New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, 70, who in 2015 was indicted on federal corruption charges in a separate case.

Sen. Bob Menendez corruption trial set to begin in New York

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 13, 2024 at 5:00am
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., leaves a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol in 2014.

Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry reindicted, this time in DC

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 9, 2024 at 1:32pm
Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, left, and John Carter, R-Texas, arrive for a House subcommittee hearing last month.

House Democrats don’t call for Cuellar resignation after indictment

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 7, 2024 at 3:56pm
Ranking member Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing last month.

Rep. Henry Cuellar and wife indicted on bribery schemes

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 3, 2024 at 3:50pm
District of Columbia Marijuana Justice holds a rally outside of the Senate office buildings with an inflatable 51-foot joint, calling for legalization of marijuana.

Some Democrats stoked by Biden administration’s marijuana move

By Ryan Tarinelli and Lauren Clason
Posted April 30, 2024 at 9:56pm
U.S. elite gymnasts from left, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols, and Simone Biles arrive to testify during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 2021 on the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation.

Justice Department settles claims on USA Gymnastics investigation

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 23, 2024 at 5:50pm
FBI Director Christopher Wray repeatedly urged Congress to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without a warrant requirement.

Senate sends surveillance reauthorization bill to Biden’s desk

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 20, 2024 at 8:06am
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is among senators seeking to amend a House-passed bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Senators seek changes to spy program reauthorization bill

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 19, 2024 at 3:36pm
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., highlighted the notifications for members of Congress as he advocated for the addition of a warrant requirement for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Spy reauthorization bill would give lawmakers special notifications

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 18, 2024 at 11:36am
Supporters of January 6 defendants, including Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, gather Tuesday outside of the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court questions use of statute against Jan. 6 defendants

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 16, 2024 at 3:25pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attend a photo op with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last week.

Senate leaders seek quick action on key surveillance authority

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 15, 2024 at 7:27pm
House Intelligence Chairman Michael R. Turner, R-Ohio, backed the version of a reauthorization bill for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

House approves surveillance authority reauthorization bill

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 12, 2024 at 2:12pm
FBI Director Christopher Wray prepares to testify Thursday during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

House looks to try again on surveillance authority reauthorization

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 11, 2024 at 6:55pm, Updated at 8:42pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, wraps up the House GOP news conference Wednesday that touched on reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. On the left are Rep. Blake D. Moore, R-Utah, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

House trips up again in spy authority reauthorization push

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 10, 2024 at 3:18pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., praised the latest version of a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

House again tees up reauthorization of powerful spy authority

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 9, 2024 at 2:27pm, Updated at 4:03pm
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has filed a lawsuit seeking the testimony of two Justice Department attorneys.

House subpoena lawsuit risks change to oversight power

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 8, 2024 at 5:01pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., set up procedural votes this week on three judicial nominations.

Senate Democrats look to close judicial confirmation gap

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 8, 2024 at 5:00am
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., leaves the Senate Democrats’ weekly lunch in the Capitol last month.

Muslim American appeals court nominee loses Democratic support

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 28, 2024 at 3:06pm
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., was among lawmakers who had said they were working to address a budget pitfall for federal public defenders.

Hiring freeze lifted for federal public defenders amid new funding

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 22, 2024 at 3:32pm
The front of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest in Washington.

FBI headquarters project set to get $200 million more funding

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 21, 2024 at 5:56pm, Updated at 6:25pm
From left, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., attend the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Wednesday.

House panel members clash at latest Biden oversight hearing

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 20, 2024 at 4:51pm
Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month.

Congress cuts federal prison infrastructure funding

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 20, 2024 at 4:07pm
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks Saturday during a Buckeye Values PAC rally in Vandalia, Ohio.

Democrats spurn use of certification process to block a Trump win

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 19, 2024 at 4:36pm
Senate Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin, left, is introducing the compromise measure with Sen. Mike Lee, who has been vocal about opposing a Section 702 reauthorization without changes.

Durbin, Lee pitch ‘compromise’ bill to renew Section 702 authority

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 14, 2024 at 4:59pm
Special counsel Robert K. Hur watches a video of former President Donald Trump during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday about his report on President Joe Biden’s retention of classified materials as a private citizen.

Special counsel defends Biden classified materials investigation

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 12, 2024 at 3:51pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference with members of the House Republican Conference in the Cannon House Office Building on Wednesday.

FBI: Spending cuts will hamper counterintelligence, investigations

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 8, 2024 at 1:08pm
The Supreme Court building is seen at dawn in January.

Supreme Court put onus on Congress to enforce ‘Insurrection’ ban

By Ryan Tarinelli and Michael Macagnone
Posted March 5, 2024 at 6:13pm
The Supreme Court building is seen at sunset in Washington.

Supreme Court tosses Colorado’s decision to bar Trump from ballot

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 4, 2024 at 11:02am
Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters testifies as Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz listens during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on deaths in federal prisons.

Federal prison director tells senators about staffing ‘crisis’

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 28, 2024 at 3:09pm
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies at a House hearing last year. He is expected to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for a hearing on inmate deaths.

Senate Judiciary panel to hear about federal inmate deaths

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 27, 2024 at 2:51pm
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., leads his chamber's Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee.

Lawmakers press to avoid funding pitfall for public defenders

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 21, 2024 at 5:45pm
Hunter Biden, center, and his attorney Abbe Lowell, left, address the media after leaving a House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup in January.

FBI source indicted for providing false information about Biden

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 15, 2024 at 7:40pm, Updated at 8:28pm
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, backs his panel's version of a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

House delays plans on surveillance program reauthorization vote

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 14, 2024 at 5:11pm
Rep. Andy Biggs, a key lawmaker in the Section 702 debate, says the FBI has abused Section 702 “hundreds of thousands of times to spy on American citizens.”

House to try again on surveillance program reauthorization

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 13, 2024 at 3:52pm
President Joe Biden speaks to House Democrats on Thursday at the House Democrats 2024 Issues Conference in Leesburg, Va.

Special counsel backs no charges in Biden classified records probe

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 8, 2024 at 5:30pm, Updated at 9:10pm
Demonstrators hold signs outside the Supreme Court as the justices heard arguments Thursday on whether Colorado could keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential primary ballot.

Supreme Court sounds poised to side with Trump in ballot case

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 8, 2024 at 2:33pm
Visitors walk across the Supreme Court plaza to enter the building in October.

Supreme Court could toss Trump eligibility dispute to Congress

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 7, 2024 at 12:37pm
Ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, and Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., conduct the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,” on Jan. 31.

Gulf remains for tech CEOs, Senate on kids’ online safety

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 6, 2024 at 7:00am
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, arrives to testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis."

Senators rebuke tech execs over child exploitation on social media

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 31, 2024 at 3:39pm
Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., right, and ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talk during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September.

Tech leaders to face Senate panel on sexual exploitation dangers

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 30, 2024 at 1:43pm
"We know we have to get back to it," Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., said about the FISA reauthorization.

Congress pits privacy against intelligence as it ponders surveillance renewal

By Ryan Tarinelli and Michael Macagnone
Posted January 23, 2024 at 7:00am
The Supreme Court is pictured after 3-4 inches of snow fell across the Washington metro area on Tuesday.

Trump, GOP lawmakers press ballot arguments at Supreme Court

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 18, 2024 at 8:49pm
Hunter Biden, left, and his attorney Abbe Lowell attend a House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup last week on whether the House should hold the president's son in contempt of Congress.

House GOP: Hunter Biden will appear for deposition

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 18, 2024 at 6:36pm
Chairman James Comer, right, and Rep. Scott Perry talk last week before a House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup on a resolution to recommend the House find Hunter Biden In contempt of Congress.

House GOP pauses push to hold Hunter Biden in contempt

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 16, 2024 at 5:32pm
Hunter Biden at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee meeting Wednesday on whether to hold him in contempt of Congress. He sat in the audience for about 20 minutes.

Two House panels recommend holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 10, 2024 at 6:16pm
Donald Trump speaks to the media at Waldorf Astoria following his appearance Tuesday at U.S. District Court in Washington, which hear arguments on his claim of immunity in the federal case accusing him of illegally attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Congress could be too feeble to counter Trump’s second-term plans

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 10, 2024 at 6:00am
A nameplate for Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, appears in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing room in December after the committee demanded he testify at a closed-door deposition.

House GOP details case for Hunter Biden contempt of Congress

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 8, 2024 at 1:35pm
A beam of sunlight breaks through the cloudy skies to illuminate the Supreme Court in Washington in 2014.

Supreme Court to review Colorado ruling to bar Trump from ballot

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 5, 2024 at 6:37pm, Updated January 8, 2024 at 2:10pm
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, is seen after making a statement during a Dec. 13 news conference outside the Capitol about testifying publicly to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

House panels set contempt of Congress votes on Hunter Biden

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 5, 2024 at 12:04pm, Updated at 3:33pm
From left, Reps. Robert Garcia, Jamie Raskin and Jasmine Crockett conduct a news conference Thursday on a report by House Oversight and Accountability Democrats on a “multi-year investigation into payments accepted by former President Trump’s businesses from foreign governments during his term in office, in violation of the Constitution.”

House Democratic report highlights Trump foreign payments

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 4, 2024 at 4:32pm
Former president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Iowa last month.

Trump asks Supreme Court to halt Colorado ballot ruling

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 3, 2024 at 6:46pm
An image of President Donald Trump appears on video screens before his speech to supporters from the Ellipse at the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, before Congress was to certify electoral votes declaring Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election.

GOP in uproar after Colorado court bars Trump from state ballot

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 19, 2023 at 8:01pm, Updated at 8:12pm
Hunter Biden, left, the son of President Joe Biden, and his lawyer Abbe Lowell, are seen after a news conference Wednesday outside the Capitol about Hunter testifying publicly to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

Hunter Biden appears on Hill, doesn’t appear at deposition

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 13, 2023 at 2:04pm
House Rules Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., is seen outside a meeting earlier this month.

House hesitates over votes on spy authority renewal bills

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 11, 2023 at 9:55pm
From left, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, and Oversight and Accountability Chairman James R. Comer hold a press briefing Tuesday on a President Joe Biden impeachment inquiry.

House GOP cites new Hunter Biden charges in impeachment push

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 8, 2023 at 1:45pm
Chairman Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, center, speaks with ranking member Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn.,right, before the start of a House Select Intelligence Committee markup of a bill Thursday to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

House Intelligence panel advances its own surveillance bill

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 7, 2023 at 2:16pm, Updated December 8, 2023 at 4:46pm
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is seen at the Capitol in October.

House Judiciary panel advances renewal of surveillance authority

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 6, 2023 at 3:11pm
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies in October before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

FBI director warns senators on surveillance reauthorization

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 5, 2023 at 2:02pm