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Treasury announces sanctions on Saudi officials following Khashoggi report

TAL AXELROD

The Treasury Department on Friday rolled out new sanctions against Saudi officials after a government rep...

GOP rep blasts Navy for including book that argues America is fundamentally racist on reading list

AUDREY CONKLIN

Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks sent a letter to Adm. Michael M. Gilday after the Navy included Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist" on its 2021 reading list.

NASA names headquarters building after agency's first Black female engineer

ARIS FOLLEY

NASA honored Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first Black female engineer, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Friday by naming its headquarters building after her.Jackson, who was portrayed by Janelle Monae in the...

Secretary of State Blinken leaves Mexicans baffled after displaying their flag upside down

Secretary of State Antony Blinken displayed the Mexican flag upside-down during a virtual meeting with the Mexican foreign minister.

'Squad' members AOC, Omar suggest Senate parliamentarian could be removed over minimum wage decision

THOMAS BARRABI

House Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., lashed out at Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough Friday after she rejected a progressive-backed proposal to include a federal minimum wage hike in President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.

Gaetz blasts Cuomo at CPAC: Establishment considers him 'a cross between King David and Tom Brady'

CHARLES CREITZ

In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, one of the state's most prominent congressmen, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Pensacola slammed the Republican establishment and the apparent alliance between Big Tech, the mainstream media and major Democrats.

New York Times columnist David Brooks did work for Facebook

THOMAS MOORE

New York Times columnist David Brooks did not inform his editors of his work for Facebook, BuzzFeed News reported Friday....

Special counsel investigating Russia probe to retire as US attorney

TAL AXELROD

John Durham, the U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, is resigning his post effective midnight Sunday, the Justice Department ...

Hawley gets boisterous ovation at CPAC for Electoral College objection

ALEXANDER BOLTON

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo), who seemed to have become something of a pariah in the Senate since his Electoral College objections on Jan. 6 and his fist-pumping show of encouragement to a pro-Trump crowd outside the Capitol t...

Josh Hawley, who tried to derail Biden’s presidency, now champions ’the rule of the people’

PHILIP BUMP

In a speech at CPAC, the first senator to pick up Trump's stolen-election effort declares a need for the people to be heard.

Biden administration buys 100,000 doses of Lilly antibody drug

NATHANIEL WEIXEL

The Biden administration on Friday announced an agreement to purchase 100,000 doses of Eli Lilly's monoclonal antibody cocktail that was recently authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.Th...

Donald Trump Jr. attacks Cheney at CPAC: 'Lincoln Project Liz'

MORGAN CHALFANT

Donald Trump Jr. used his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando on Friday to rail against President Biden's first moves in office and criticize establishment Republicans like House GOP C...

Democrats scramble to rescue minimum wage hike

NIV ELIS AND CRISTINA MARCOS

Democrats are scrambling to chart a path forward on a top progressive priority after the Senate parliamentarian blocked them from including a $15 minimum wage in a sprawling $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package....

FDA panel approves Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine

NATHANIEL WEIXEL

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Friday endorsed Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine and recommended the agency grant emergency authorization, moving the nation's third vaccine one step...

The former president (yes, that one) still gobbles up a lot of attention

PHILIP BUMP

Both intentionally and not, Trump remains a fixture online and on television.