(Headline USA) Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon as an online bookstore and built it into a shopping and entertainment behemoth, will step down later this year as CEO---a role he's had for nearly 30 years---to become executive chairman, the company announced Tuesday.
Bezos, 57, will be replaced in the fall...
(Headline USA) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., faced unrest Tuesday from opposing ends of the Republican spectrum over Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., underscoring GOP fissures as the party seeks its pathway without Donald Trump in the White House.
Trump-allied lawmakers were itching to oust...
(Headline USA) Republican Kevin Faulconer, the former San Diego mayor, formally rolled out his campaign for California governor Tuesday with a blistering attack on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The event began with a symbolic flourish: Faulconer arrived in a yellow school bus to underscore the frustration of parents whose kids...
(Headline USA) One of the political boons that Democrat politicians hoped to gain from their coronavirus-inspired lockdowns was to inflict maximum suffering on voters who would blame then-President Donald Trump.
But with Trump out of office, they are now the ones facing the heat from outraged voters in areas that...
(Headline USA) Michigan's environmental agency said Friday it has approved construction of an underground tunnel to house a replacement for a controversial oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
The decision, a victory for Enbridge Inc., comes as the Canadian company resists Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's demand...
(Headline USA) Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval Tuesday as transportation secretary. Without any managerial experience of any level of a bureaucracy, he’ll be tasked with advancing President Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda of rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and fighting so-called climate change.
Buttigieg, a 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters “like a loaded cannon” at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their detailed case for why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office.
The legal...
(Headline USA) Democrats are using the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump as a political “weapon” to bar the former president from seeking office again and are pursuing a case that is “undemocratic” and unconstitutional, one of his lawyers said Monday night.
Trump faces trial next week on accusations that...
(Associated Press) That foreboding black fence erected around the U.S. Capitol building has had an unintentional side effect: walling off the local government’s ability to enact new laws.
Washington, D.C., city officials say dozens of new local laws have been bottlenecked because of the lockdown of the Capitol building after the...
(Headline USA) Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Greene on Monday, calling the Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a “cancer for the Republican Party.”
“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden told Republican senators during a two-hour meeting he's unwilling to settle on an insufficient coronavirus aid package after they pitched their slimmed down $618 billion proposal that's a fraction of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking.
No compromise was reached in the lengthy session Monday night,...
(Headline USA) Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other hard drugs as a ballot measure that decriminalized them took effect on Monday.
Instead, those found in possession would face a $100 fine or a health assessment that could...