The Missouri state Senate adjourned a day early this week for its weeklong spring recess because Democratic lawmakers filibustered a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors.
Lawmakers in Congress are preparing to introduce a resolution that would overturn local police reforms in Washington, D.C., escalating efforts on Capitol Hill to rein in the district’s autonomy.
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Florida can ban adults under 21 years of age from purchasing guns, upholding a state law enacted weeks after the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
The House voted to place new restrictions on federal employees pressuring or helping private entities to censor political speech, a response by Republicans to the release of internal Twitter documents that detailed the close relationship that federal agencies have with Big Tech.
The head of the U.S. intelligence community committed to sharing with Congress the Energy Department’s classified assessment concluding that COVID-19 most likely originated through a Wuhan lab leak.
President Joe Biden has proposed slashing funding for the Department of Homeland Security by $600 million as problems of national security mount against the United States, including cyberattacks, irregular immigration, violent crime, and record high border crossings.
