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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked the House Administration Committee to provide the committee millions in funding for its investigations. Read More.

New York City would pay hundreds who were arrested during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests thousands of dollars each as part of a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit that accuses the city's police department of "violations of their rights under the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments." Read More.

As Democrats quietly speculate about the upcoming presidential race, President Joe Biden on March 1 stressed unity and his party’s legislative record during the past Congress–but he didn’t come closer to stating his intentions for 2024. Read More.

The U.S. has approved billions in assistance for Ukraine as that embattled nation has endeavored to beat back a Russian invasion over the last year, but former Vice President Mike Pence — who has indicated that he is considering a White House bid — Read More.

Republican presidential hopefuls look to prominent GOP donors in New York City, former President Trump’s hometown, who are not yet committed to supporting any candidate, according to The New York Times. Read More.

AMC’s Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is no fan of former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. In an interview Sunday with CNN’s Chris Wallace, the actor argued that “MAGA” could be construed as “racist.” Read More.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a majority lead over former President Donald Trump among California Republicans, according to a recent poll. Read More.

Crime in Washington, DC, has soared 23 percent at the beginning of 2023 compared to 2022 after District officials launched an initiative to reduce criminal punishments in recent months. Read More.

Former President Donald Trump is leading his potential Republican primary challengers in Kansas, a Remington Research Group survey shows. Read More.

Democrat lawmakers are apoplectic because House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) provided over 41,000 hours of footage from the Jan. 6 protests at the U.S. Capitol to Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Read More.

Some Democrats are getting the sneaking feeling that President Biden may not seek a second term after all — and are quietly preparing for a 2024 free-for-all, according to a new report. Read More.

President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., might be the only white boy from East Wilmington, as he is wont to say, but Ol’ Diamond Joe is much more than that. By his own account, he is the most Polish-Jewish-Black-Puerto Rican-Greek-Irish-Catholic president that we have ever had. Read More.

The group — composed of Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna of California, Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts and Jonathan Jackson of Illinois as well as Republican Tony Gonzales of Texas — arrived Sunday for a five-day visit to the self-ruled island. Read More.

Axios is reporting that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has granted Fox News’s Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol videotape from Jan. 6, 2021, (aka J6). Tucker has long questioned whether J6 was an actual insurrection. The FBI stated in August 2021 they found little evidence that the crowd tried to topple the United States. Read More.

When I was watching and writing about Joe Biden’s visit to Kyiv this morning, I brought up the potential dangers involved with such a trip. The White House was busy for much of the day touting the “historic” nature of the visit, being the first time that a sitting President had traveled into a war zone where the United States military did not control all of the infrastructure and security. Read More.