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The Biden administration is split over how much further the US can push sanctions against Russia without undermining its own economy and Western unity, Bloomberg reports.  According to the news agency, US President Joe Biden’s team has largely backed the sanctions plan Washington set in motion after Russia attacked Ukraine …

President Joe Biden’s administration is expanding the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) purview to include fighting speech that the government deems to be “disinformation.” Plans for the new initiative were revealed on Wednesday, when DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas said in a congressional hearing that his department has created a …

The DOJ is ramping up its efforts to combat domestic terrorism, forming a specialized unit to address what it sees as growing threats of attacks from within the American populace. The department already had a counterterrorism section in its national security division, but Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen told US lawmakers …

Asked if the mandate, which was set to be in place on January 4, could “survive” the recent court-ordered stop from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Murthy told ABC on Sunday that the mandate remains “appropriate and necessary” and will be defended in court.  “The president and the administration …

DeSantis was in West Palm Beach on Wednesday to speak about his proposed measures to tighten election security, including a ban on ballot harvesting and mandatory clean-up of voter rolls. At one point, he brought up the “Brandon administration,” causing the audience to chant “Let’s go Brandon!”  The governor seemed …

In an opening letter from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the pair note that while the US is currently wallowing in the “worst economic collapse since the Great Depression,” the really important part is that women’s participation in the labor force is down to its lowest level …

The Justice Department is seeking to block the law from coming into effect while the fight over its constitutionality continues in the courts. It has been statutory since September, excepting a 48-hour period ordered by a district court. The Biden administration filed on Monday to reverse a ruling by the …

You might have missed this over the weekend, but the Biden Administration chose to remove border wall contracts while using all the unspent cash on environmental projects instead – including “biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys” in the border region, according to the statement. Think about that and you will …

“We clearly told them that trying to destabilize the government in Afghanistan is good for no one,” France’s AFP quoted Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi as saying on Saturday. The statement followed a meeting in Doha, where the Taliban is holding its first face-to-face talks with US officials since …

As Biden spoke to the nation on Wednesday and pushed his ‘Build Back Better’ agenda, viewers became distracted by his surroundings. The president was not sitting in the West Wing, but rather in a set his team constructed for video conferences and interviews.  Biden sat at the desk with the …