Arab leaders welcomed Syria back into the Arab League after the country’s nearly 12 years in exile. The move marks one of the most significant steps in the Arab world to re-normalize relations with Damascus. The Arab League revoked Syria’s membership in 2011 after Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad led a massive crackdown on protesters that…

House Republicans unveiled a new border security bill which Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., described as “the strongest border security package the House has ever taken up.” The chairmen of the committees that wrote the bill said it will include provisions for asylum, e-verify, visa overstays, reinstate so-called migrant protection protocols and build 900 miles…

A bipartisan group of senators have introduced a banking reform bill that would allow banks to work with cannabis companies in states where it’s legal. Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., introduced the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act on Wednesday, April 26. The Senate bill was introduced despite the fact that…

A far-right social media influencer with thousands of followers has been convicted of interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Federal prosecutors said Douglass Mackey, who went by the name of “Ricky Vaughn” online, planned a “coordinated attack” on people’s right to vote by posting images to Twitter that resembled campaign ads for Hillary Clinton. The…

The biggest showdown expected in Washington this summer had a battle stop in New York. On Monday, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made his political pitch on the debt ceiling to the New York Stock Exchange during trading hours. “Without exaggeration, American debt is a ticking time bomb that will detonate unless we take serious,…

After the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, three members of the Tennessee state legislature led a protest against gun violence on March 30 that halted legislative proceedings. Two of those members, both Black, were expelled by GOP lawmakers for breaking rules while the third, a white female who broke those same rules, was not expelled.…

New York prosecutors have moved to file criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, marking the first criminal indictment of a former U.S. president in history. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has spent the last few years investigating whether Trump violated campaign finance laws in connection to hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels…

Tech companies are threatening to pull news articles from their websites in Canada as legislation advances that would force them to pay news publishers for their content. Bill C-18, called the Online News Act, would mandate revenue-sharing agreements between Google, Facebook-parent-company Meta, and established news organizations. This week, Meta warned it would get out of…

A pair of controversial bills approved by the Washington, D.C. City Council has put the district in the national spotlight and at odds with the federal government. Congress is expected to use its oversight power over city matters to override a crime bill that would reduce maximum sentences for violent crimes in D.C. The House…