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April 18, 2024The Senate will continue work on House-passed legislation to reauthorize FISA Section 702 warantless surveillance authority until 2026. Current authority expires Friday at midnight.
The Senate will continue work on House-passed legislation to reauthorize FISA Section 702 warantless surveillance authority until 2026. Current authority expires Friday at midnight.
The U.N. Security Council meets to debate and consider Palestine's membership to the United Nations.
Acting Housing and Urban Development Secretary Adrianne Todman and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson testify on federal housing before the Senate Banking Committee.
The House will consider a resolution condemning Iran's airstrikes on Israel.
The House Rules Committee debated four foreign aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Members discussed the merits of the bills. They also heard from other congressional members who had amendments to offer up.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified on the president’s 2025 budget request during a public hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The hearing occurred one day after the Democratic-controll…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) held a news conference on the Republican party’s legislative agenda amid White House support for a House-led national security supplemental and a failed impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. …
President Biden campaigned in Philadelphia where he compared his and former President Trump’s visions for the U.S. “Donald Trump’s vision is one of anger, hate, revenge and retribution … and he calls for another bloodbath when he loses again,” Presid…
Historian Manisha Sinha looks at the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War and argues that the period did not end in 1877, but rather continued through 1920 and the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
View More American History TVPrinceton University professor Eddie Glaude talks about his views on Black politics & how the Black community moves forward in America’s democracy.
View More After WordsThe Supreme Court hears oral argument to decide if former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for his alleged role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted him in August 2023.
View More Supreme Court Oral ArgumentsNBC Saturday Night Live Cast Member Colin Jost is the featured entertainer at the 2024 White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, DC.
View More White House Correspondents DinnerRepresentative Pat Fallon (R-TX) talked about the conflicts in the Middle East, aid to Ukraine, border security, and congressional news of the day.
President Biden campaigned in Philadelphia where he compared his and former President Trump’s visions for the U.S. “Donald Trump’s vision is one of anger, hate, revenge and retribution … and he calls for another bloodbath when he loses again,” Presid…
Representative Jim Costa (D-CA), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, talked about the conflicts in the Middle East, aid to Ukraine, and congressional news of the day.