Joe Biden

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) issued a letter Thursday to House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) debunking the claim the Republican has spent the past six months making that President Joe Biden is linked to a Ukraine bribery scheme involving his son.

Raskin, who serves as the ranking member on the Oversight Committee, confirmed previous Raw Story reporting that Rudy Giuliani was likely the source of a tip given to the FBI that became a central focus of Comer's probe which attempted to link the Bidens to bribery payments made by Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian founder of oil and gas company Burisma holdings.

After President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law in 2021, the White House says it has distributed around of $42 billion across America to expand internet access to rural and isolated communities and fund roads and bridges, public transit, water infrastructure, power grids, and airports.

Republicans who voted in favor of the bill at the time were attacked by members of their own party. As Newsweek points out, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene even called them "traitors."

The Florida grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump hasn't finished its work, thus raising the possibility that even more criminal charges could be coming.

The New York Times reports that the grand jury that indicted Trump earlier this month has continued issuing subpoenas to witnesses even after the indictment was unsealed.

Republicans are gearing up for possible impeachment inquiries of top administration officials and possibly even President Joe Biden himself, but a report Thursday claims Democrats are confident those efforts will backfire.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has warmed to the idea of impeachment for Attorney General Merrick Garland, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and possibly the president, but Democratic groups have already started working on a political defense response, reported The Daily Beast.

An IRS agent has been doing the rounds on various media outlets claiming, to be a whistleblower revealing that Hunter Biden was given preferential treatment during a five-year investigation.

As a result, Republican House members have called in key investigators to answer questions.

House Republicans plan to focus the bulk of their agenda on impeaching top Biden administration officials — and maybe even the president himself.

The GOP-led House will hear testimony in the coming months from homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, attorney general Merrick Garland and FBI director Christopher Wray, and they're interested in calling David Weiss, the Donald Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who led the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, reported CNN.

Senate Republicans introduced legislation earlier this week that would prohibit President Joe Biden from declaring a national climate emergency as millions across the U.S. shelter indoors to escape scorching heat and toxic pollution from Canadian wildfires, which have been fueled by runaway warming.

Led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)—a fossil fuel industry ally and the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee—the GOP bill would "prohibit the president from using the three primary statutory authorities available (the National Emergencies Act, the Stafford Act, and section 319 of the Public Health Service Act) to declare a national emergency solely on the basis of climate change," according to a summary released by the Republican senator's office.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) struggled on Thursday to name a policy that President Biden changed after receiving money from foreign sources.

"I heard you yesterday refer to them as a crime family, and this was organized crime," Fox News host Steve Doocy told Comer. "So make it easy for us. What was the crime?"

Former President Donald Trump could be far more terrifying than many people realize in his second term, wrote former Trump administration Homeland Security official Miles Taylor for Vanity Fair from an adaptation of his new book, "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump."

That's because the national security apparatus has what's informally known as a "doomsday book" of emergency directives for extreme actions that suspend normal law and rights — and although these orders are generally kept secret from the president, Trump could conjure up a way to have it delivered to him.

The Data for Progress survey found that opposition to McCarthy's (R-Calif.) proposed commission is thoroughly bipartisan, with 72% of all likely voters—including 78% of Democrats, 72% of Independents, and 65% of Republicans—either "somewhat" or "strongly" opposing the move.

In contrast, 93% of survey respondents said that Social Security benefits should remain as they are or be expanded, including 94% of Democrats, 91% of Independents, and 94% of Republicans.