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Congress Can't Agree on How to Reform Big Tech. Frances Haugen Says That's What Facebook Wants
By Vera Bergengruen
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Facing a Billion-Dollar Shutdown, Congress Can’t Even Agree How to Procrastinate
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Welcome to Washington, currently home to an octogenarian staring...
By Philip Elliott
December 1, 2021
Why Biden Backers Are Sounding the Alarm on Pennsylvania
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. It’s not hyperbole to say Joe Biden’s childhood home...
By Philip Elliott
November 30, 2021
Ex-Trump Aide Mark Meadows Cooperating with House Jan. 6 Panel
(WASHINGTON) — Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, is cooperating with a House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and providing some documents, putting off for now the panel’s threat to hold...
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER / AP
November 30, 2021
A Case that Could Overturn
Roe v. Wade
Goes Before the Supreme Court
The outcome of the case could redefine the right to abortion in the United States and have profound implications not just for reproductive rights.
By Abigail Abrams
November 30, 2021
Why the Omicron Variant Is a New Political Test for Joe Biden
One of Joe Biden’s greatest political vulnerabilities going into next year is a mutating virus. Voters do not seem to be rewarding President Biden for his big-dollar legislative accomplishments. He’s getting declining marks in polls...
By Brian Bennett
November 29, 2021
Why Donald Trump Is Making Extremely Local Endorsements
During their local mayoral race in early November, town residents in Hialeah, Florida, population 230,000, heard a familiar voice in a campaign ad for the city’s election. “Steve Bovo,” boomed former President Donald Trump’s voice,...
By Brian Bennett
November 29, 2021
Environmentalists: Tapping Emergency U.S. Oil Reserves Is Necessary—But Also a Reminder That We Need To Quit Fossil Fuels
(WASHINGTON) — Democrats and climate activists generally supported President Joe Biden's decision to release a record 50 million barrels of oil from America's strategic reserve, even as the move appeared to contradict his long-term vision...
By MATTHEW DALY / AP
November 24, 2021
U.S. General Says Iran Is Nearly Able to Build a Nuclear Weapon
“They're very close this time. I think they like the idea of being able to break out,” General Kenneth McKenzie tells TIME
By W.J. Hennigan
November 24, 2021
U.S. to Release 50 Million Barrels of Oil to Fight Rising Gas Prices
The move is in coordination with other major energy consuming nations, including India, the United Kingdom and China
By JOSH BOAK and COLLEEN LONG/AP
November 23, 2021
The Quest to Name Pearl Harbor's Unknown Victims
The seven sailors point their rifles skyward and fire three times in unison, shattering the silence at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. The military salute signifies the end of an 80-year-old mystery that...
By W.J. Hennigan
November 23, 2021
Why Joe Biden Needs to Worry About Yams
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. White House chief of staff Ron Klain is about...
By Philip Elliott
November 22, 2021
6 Innovative Paths to Homeownership
A dozen Grade-A eggs will run you about $0.40 more than they did a year ago, and you'll have to fork over $0.66 more for a pound of ground beef. At the gas pump, a...
By Abby Vesoulis
November 22, 2021
Biden Taps Fed Reserve Chief Jerome Powell for Second Term
Powell has historically received bipartisan support and faces what will likely be a smooth confirmation in the Senate
By Craig Torres and Nancy Cook/Bloomberg
November 22, 2021
Inside Mystic Valley and the Debate Over America's Classroom
Eric Henry couldn’t believe what the 5th-graders at his triplets’ school were being assigned to read. On Jan. 31, the electrical engineer and Navy veteran fired off an email to a group of fellow parents...
By Molly Ball/Malden, Mass.
November 22, 2021
‘Give Us a Break!’ Cuban Activists Say U.S. Sanctions Are Blocking Them from Online Services
On Nov. 9, Cuban journalist Elaine Diaz was trying to send out a newsletter to the subscribers of Periodismo de Barrio, her watchdog news site covering human rights issues on the island, when she got...
By Vera Bergengruen
November 19, 2021
What Will the Senate Do with the Build Back Better Bill?
The House passed the Build Back Better bill, but it will likely be changed more during upcoming negotiations in the Senate
By Abby Vesoulis
November 19, 2021
'Enough is Enough.' 8 State Attorneys General Launch Investigation into Instagram's Harmful Effect on Kids
A group of state attorneys general are investigating the photo-sharing platform Instagram and its effects on children and young adults, saying its parent company Facebook — now called Meta Platforms — ignored internal research about...
By BARBARA ORTUTAY / AP
November 19, 2021
What’s in the Build Back Better Bill
Here’s what’s included in the Build Back Better spending bill the House of Representatives just passed.
By Nik Popli
November 19, 2021
A Long, Trumpy Audition
Kevin McCarthy's speech was ostensibly in opposition to the Build Back Better bill. But it quickly became apparent that he was auditioning for the job of Speaker of the House
By Philip Elliott
November 19, 2021
McCarthy Delays Vote on Build Back Better Bill
House approval was still expected on a near party-line vote
By Alan Fram/AP
November 19, 2021
Lael Brainard Could Be the Next Fed Chair. She Believes the U.S. Central Bank Can Help Fix Wealth Inequality
President Biden's decision on whether to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve Board is coming down to the wire. The Board's only known Democrat, Lael Brainard has emerged as Powell's No. 1...
By Belinda Luscombe
November 18, 2021
Catholic Bishops Avoided Fight with Joe Biden on Communion
Hundreds of the country’s Catholic bishops, their names on tags hanging from green lanyards around their necks, sat at long tables inside a conference room in Baltimore on Wednesday to vote on pressing issues facing...
By Brian Bennett
November 17, 2021
Congress Investigates Ivermectin Sales After TIME Story
Spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines has never been more lucrative. The past year has created a thriving online marketplace for unproven COVID-19 “wonder drugs,” fraudulent vaccination cards, fake religious or medical exemptions, and other products...
By Vera Bergengruen
November 17, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene Isn't a Fluke—She Might Be the Future
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. It’s mighty tempting to treat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene...
By Philip Elliott
November 17, 2021
House Censures Rep. Paul Gosar Over Posting Violent Video Depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Killing
(WASHINGTON) — The House voted Wednesday to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for posting an animated video that depicted him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword, an extraordinary rebuke that highlighted...
By KEVIN FREKING and BRIAN SLODYSKO / AP
November 17, 2021
Is Climate Diplomacy Improving U.S.-China Relations?
Though, experts caution that tensions between the nations are unlikely to be easily solved.
By Amy Gunia
November 17, 2021
Lottery Results in Bad News for Vaccine Rule
A peculiar ping-pong ball lottery—think: the NBA draft, only required by federal law—on Tuesday dimmed the fate of the Biden Administration’s new mandate governing COVID-19 vaccine requirements for large employers. The Occupational Safety and Health...
By Abigail Abrams
November 16, 2021
How Biden’s Poor Polling Threatens His Major Social Spending Bill
Joe Biden stood in front of an aging bridge in Woodstock, New Hampshire on Tuesday as some of the first winter snowflakes began to fall, and touted the $550 billion in new infrastructure spending he...
By Brian Bennett
November 16, 2021
In Washington, ‘Bipartisan’ Can Mean a Lot of Things
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Lest you missed the rollout of the infrastructure package...
By Philip Elliott
November 16, 2021
‘America Is Moving Again.’ Joe Biden Signs $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill With Bipartisan Support
The president declared the new infusion of cash is going to make life “change for the better” for the American people
By Josh Boak and Colleen Long/AP
November 15, 2021
Astronauts Take Shelter Aboard ISS After Russian Anti-Satellite Test, U.S. Says
The Russian military conducted a missile test Monday that obliterated a dead satellite and generated a cloud of debris in outer space that forced astronauts aboard the International Space Station to temporarily take shelter, according...
By W.J. Hennigan
November 15, 2021
Steve Bannon Indicted on Contempt Charges for Defying Jan. 6 Congressional Subpoena
(WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, was indicted Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the insurrection...
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, MICHAEL BALSAMO and EMILY WAGSTER PETTU / AP
November 12, 2021
How Early Voting Helped Glenn Youngkin—And What It Means for Republicans in the Midterms
Former President Donald Trump lost Virginia in 2020 by 10 points after discouraging his own supporters nationwide from trusting the integrity of early voting. But Glenn Youngkin won the state’s governor’s race last week in...
By Nik Popli
November 12, 2021
Biden Isn't Making Things Easy for Two of His Potential Successors
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Thirteen years ago, Barack Obama deployed some of his...
By Philip Elliott
November 12, 2021
Momentum Is Building for Antitrust Reform. What It Means for Big Tech
Worry about the concentration of wealth and power achieved by monopolistic—or potentially monopolistic—entities have always been wrapped up in each respective era’s technological innovations. It is not surprising then that the focal point of today’s...
By Martha C. White
November 12, 2021
Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Jan. 6 Records
The ruling gives the court time to consider arguments in a clash between Donald Trump and President Joe Biden and Congress
By Nomaan Marchant/AP
November 11, 2021
Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic Faces the Supreme Court
Jackson Women’s Health Organization is at the center of a Supreme Court case that could overturn Roe v. Wade
By Abigail Abrams
November 11, 2021
Why Facebook Employees 'Deprioritized' a Misinformation Fix
In May 2019, a video purporting to show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi inebriated, slurring her words as she gave a speech at a public event, went viral on Facebook. In reality, somebody had slowed the...
By Billy Perrigo
November 10, 2021
Joe Biden Faces His Next Challenge on the Infrastructure Bill: Making Voters Care
The President was running late. It was one of Joe Biden’s first chances since his enormous bipartisan infrastructure bill passed Congress to beam directly into living rooms in Kentucky and Ohio and describe how it...
By Brian Bennett
November 10, 2021
Rate of Successful Asylum Cases Shot Up
A higher rate of people are winning their asylum cases in court. According to a new report, 37% of cases have won since Biden took office.
By Jasmine Aguilera
November 10, 2021
A Spike in Calls to the Veteran Crisis Line Could Signal Trouble for Biden
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, a top adviser to...
By Philip Elliott
November 10, 2021
Judge Rejects Trump Request to Block Jan. 6 Records
“Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote
By Nomaan Merchant/AP
November 9, 2021
How Democrats Bungled Their Big Win on Infrastructure
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. President Joe Biden pulled the sunglasses from his face...
By Philip Elliott
November 9, 2021
Bucks 1st NBA Team to Visit White House in 5 Years
The team visit comes after tensions between former President Donald Trump and many of the league’s athletes.
By Jennifer Epstein, Josh Wingrove and Kim Bhasin/Bloomberg
November 8, 2021
Doug Emhoff Is Still New at This
It’s a sunny October day, and Doug Emhoff is back in his native New Jersey for the first time as Second Gentleman of the United States. “It looks surprisingly the same, except this beautiful city...
By Charlotte Alter
November 8, 2021
Dems End Deadlock, House Sends Biden Infrastructure Bill
The House passed the measure 228-206
By Alan Fram/AP
November 5, 2021
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