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178 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 12, 2026.
Reps. Mike Levin and Jason Crow say the bill targets a "pardon industrial complex"; constitutional scholars say Congress cannot regulate the pardon power by statute.
The data firm, accused by Democrats of enabling surveillance, is adding a former Montana senator as an adviser ahead of expected oversight fights in January.
The lame-duck session opens with House Republicans picking new leaders after their midterm losses, a stalled spending package, and Massie's push to force an impeachment vote on Hegseth.
WatchParty leaders promise relief on health care and prices, yet they lack the votes to override a veto and face Senate Republicans who can block bills. Analysts warn voters could be disappointed.
Election experts say slow counts in California, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are normal, and warn that early complaints from candidates are a sign they think they are losing.
Four bills in Congress would retrain displaced workers, tax AI companies or force firms to report AI-driven layoffs, as polling shows near-universal support for worker protection.
Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides each face one count. Floris's lawyers say the charges came "on the eve of an election" and are no coincidence.
The nonpartisan watchdog told Vice President Vance and congressional leaders the cancellation broke the Impoundment Control Act. Budget director Russ Vought accused the agency of partisan bias.
The White House is clawing back money for refugee services, international education and housing days before the fiscal year ends, and Republican Sen. Susan Collins called it an 'unlawful cancellation.'
Brig. Gen. Clint Barnes kept his unit at Kuwait's Port of Shuaiba despite intelligence briefings that it was a likely Iranian target, CBS News reports. More than 20 Democrats now want public hearings.
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would pause advanced AI development until a new Cabinet-level Department of AI exists to police it. Industry groups call it dead on arrival.
The vote was likely Congress's last chance to weigh in on the six-month war before the midterms. Fetterman was again the only Democrat to vote no.
Congress has 30 days to block the deal. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said the sale could put 'the crown jewels of American military technology within reach of the Chinese Communist Party.' The kingdom is under daily Houthi attack and just lost its East-West pipeline.
Four people familiar with his thinking say the former Waste Management CEO was furious after a June Senate hearing where he was called a 'pawn' in Trump's mail-ballot plan. The Supreme Court blocked key parts of that plan on Monday.
It is the first data center bill to pass the 119th Congress. The three no votes were progressives who wanted a moratorium. Nearly 70% of Americans don't want a data center near them, and the bill's Republican sponsor is in a toss-up race.
WatchFifty-eight Democrats crossed over and seven Republicans defected. Hakeem Jeffries said Trump 'cannot be entrusted' with new tariff power. The bill now goes to a president who has spent months saying he wanted it.
Bloomberg counted about 20 cases where Trump bought into companies within a week of publicly promoting them, including DoorDash, Nvidia and Tesla. The White House says outside firms run his money through index-tracking models and nobody in the family directs a trade.
The nonpartisan budget office's first full accounting excludes damage to U.S. bases, the fuel bill for other agencies and interest on the debt. It says restocking missile defenses could take five years, and it notes the Pentagon refused to provide detailed data.
The package of 20,000 Mk-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s has been informally notified to Congress and would dwarf last year's $2.04 billion deal. It comes with a fragile ceasefire in Gaza still nominally in place and Israeli strikes continuing.
The Future of Life Institute's all-day 'Pro-Human Assembly' also features Marsha Blackburn, Randi Weingarten, Ashley Judd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Speaker Johnson says a moratorium means 'we will lose the race to China.'
The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican, who retires in January, told reporters it was 'time to get back to work' on the farm bill. His return restores a 12-11 GOP edge on the Agriculture Committee.
Messages between the Pennsylvania senator and his aides, first published by The Wall Street Journal, show him pushing back on constituent meetings, hospital visits and hearings. Two House Democrats from his own state called him lazy.
The Maryland Democrat told 'Meet the Press' that impeachment is 'a critical tool in the toolbox' but not a fetish and not a panacea. Health care comes first if his party wins the House.
HR 4795 would amend the Higher Education Act so any school running a commercial boycott of Israel, or of businesses in Israeli settlements, loses access to federal student aid. Two Republicans voted no.
Republican leaders scrapped the last two weeks of September, sending members home until after the November 3 election. Days earlier the speaker had promised the House would work every day on the calendar.
WatchThe prediction market says the former congressman told his followers he was going to the State of the Union, then bet against himself. It is the first lifetime ban the company has ever issued.
Only Edwards himself and Rep. Ralph Norman voted no. A bipartisan ethics report found the North Carolina Republican gave two young female aides jewelry, handguns and poetry.
The stopgap holds agencies at current spending levels through Dec. 11 and heads to President Trump's desk. Nineteen Republicans and 29 Democrats voted against it.
Three U.S. officials say the defense secretary personally removed at least six colonels selected for two-star rank by an Army board. More than 80 generals and admirals have now been fired or blocked under him.
Republicans wanted a one-year delay before states start paying part of the SNAP bill. Democrats wanted two. Two Republican senators were absent, and the current farm law expires September 30.
H.R. 5334 would let the president tariff the biggest buyers of Russian oil, blacklist Moscow's shadow fleet and extend Iran sanctions. Rand Paul gets one amendment vote first.
The House Ethics Committee found 'substantial reason to believe' the North Carolina Republican harassed two young female staffers and recommended censure. He is finishing his term but leaving the ballot before the September 4 deadline.
S. 5046 cleared the Senate HELP Committee 13-9 over the objection of its own chairman. It would void the interagency agreements moving special education, civil rights and student aid work to four other departments.
The entries run from December 2019 to December 2022 and cover COVID's origins, Fauci's uneasy relationship with Trump, and his own discomfort with becoming, in his words, the most talked-about person in the country.
WatchSusan Collins and Patty Murray released the text of a stopgap Sunday that funds most federal agencies at current levels through the second week of December. It strips out $1 billion for 'Trump-class' battleships and blocks money from being shifted to Border Patrol.
The longest-serving woman in the history of the U.S. House was a passenger when her vehicle was hit Sunday morning in Toledo. Police say the other driver was picked up by a second car and fled the scene.
After reviewing 1,500 pages of evidence and interviewing 16 witnesses, the bipartisan panel found "substantial reason to believe" the North Carolina Republican broke House harassment rules.
Emily Moreno's Cuyahoga County filing accuses the Ohio Republican of harassing and physically grabbing her attorneys after custody hearings. Miller denies all of the allegations.
Rep. Robert Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal want to know how David Brouillette was hired and trained before the July 13 shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford.
Kirsten Gillibrand's measure to force a withdrawal of U.S. forces failed by a single vote, with three Republicans crossing over and one Democrat voting no. The Pentagon now counts 18 American service members killed and more than 600 wounded.
Two razor-thin votes — 216-212 and 216-214 — sent the defense authorization and a reconciliation framework to a Senate where Republicans still need Democratic votes they do not have.
WatchA record 103 Democrats joined GOP Rep. Thomas Massie to strip $3.3 billion in funding for Israel, a measure that failed 104-314 but laid bare a deepening rift in the party.
Kathryn Ruemmler, once White House counsel to Obama, defended her 'Uncle Jeffrey' emails before the House Oversight Committee, calling her dealings with the financier 'a mistake.'
With government funding set to lapse Sept. 30 and Speaker Mike Johnson sending the House home without a defense bill, Republicans fear another Democratic opening just weeks before the November elections.
WatchThe bipartisan bill would let states lock their clocks to year-round daylight saving time and scrap the twice-a-year switch. President Trump says he will sign it if it reaches his desk.
The revised measure would let President Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas — including China and India — and slap mandatory sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.
In a rare Capitol Hill appearance, two Supreme Court justices pressed lawmakers for a nearly 10% budget increase, citing a sharp rise in threats against the federal judiciary.
WatchThe California Democrat said settlers wielding U.S.-made M4 rifles surrounded his van in the southern West Bank and that Israeli soldiers sided with them, not with the visiting Americans.
The 84-year-old Kentucky senator ended a month of speculation about his health, revealing he was briefly knocked unconscious in a fall at his Washington home and later developed pneumonia.
The Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act, introduced by House Agriculture Chairman Glenn Thompson, would strip the program's seasonal limit and offer some unauthorized farmworkers a path in, dividing labor advocates and immigration hawks alike.
WatchThe 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act becomes law Friday, barring the largest institutional investors from scooping up more single-family homes as prices hit a record.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which cleared Congress with overwhelming majorities, will take effect this week even though the president canceled his own signing ceremony and called the measure a 'big yawn.'
WatchThe 84-year-old Kentucky senator has not been seen in public since June 14, when paramedics were sent to his home for an 'unconscious person' and a dispatcher logged a cardiac arrest. His office insists only that he 'continues to improve.'
Lawmakers will convene Aug. 3 to advance a constitutional amendment that could clear the way for an 8-0 Democratic congressional map, escalating the national gerrymandering war.
Fourteen Republicans joined Democrats to block a procedural rule, stalling the must-pass NDAA and forcing Speaker Mike Johnson to start the July Fourth recess without action.
The president called the bipartisan measure to boost home supply 'of minor importance' and refused to sign it until lawmakers deliver his sweeping elections bill, blindsiding Senate Republicans months before the midterms.
The program’s trustees moved the depletion date a year earlier, warning that more than 70 million Americans face automatic cuts of about $500 a month unless Congress acts.
The president abruptly canceled a Capitol signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, but the bipartisan measure can still become law in 10 days even without his signature.
WatchA procedural motion to advance Sen. Tim Kaine's resolution failed 50-47 on Wednesday, a victory for President Trump just one day after the chamber had narrowly rebuked him.
Candidates endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ousted long-serving House Democrats on Tuesday, in a result allies hailed as a generational shift in the party.
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