Former US ambassador predicts Griner will be released in 'two-for-two' prisoner swap
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson predicted Sunday that U.S. citizens Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner, who are imprisoned in Russia, will be freed in a "two-for-two" prisoner swap with Moscow. “I’m optimistic. I think she’s going to be free,” Richardson said of WNBA star Griner on ABC’s “This Week.” “
Read MoreFormer Miss America running for Congress as independent in North Dakota
Former Miss America Cara Mund has announced she's running for Congress this year as an independent in North Dakota. “On the 57th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I am proud to announce that I am seeking to be North Dakota’s first female in the U.S. House of Representatives,” Mund wrote on Facebook Saturday. The 2022 graduate of Harvard Law School became critical of the Miss America organization toward the end of her 2018 tenure, and
Read MoreTrump says McConnell 'got played like a fiddle' on Democrats spending bill
Former President Trump laid into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday after Senate Democrats passed their long-awaited health care, tax and climate package. “Mitch McConnell got played like a fiddle with the vote today by the Senate Democrats,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “First he gave them the fake Infrastructure Bill, then Guns, never used the Debt Ceiling for negotiating purposes (gave it away for NOTHING!), and now this,” Trump said. “Mitch doesn’t have a clue - he i
Read MoreThese seven GOP senators voted to keep $35 insulin cap in reconciliation bill
Seven Republican senators voted with all 50 Democrats to maintain a $35 monthly cap on the price of insulin in the Democrats’ $700 billion climate, health and tax reconciliation bill. The measure targeting people not covered by Medicare was ultimately blocked from being included in the Inflation Reduction Act when it fell three votes short of the 60 required to override a
Read MoreHarris moves within six tie-breaking votes of nearly 200-year-old record
Vice President Harris cast her 25th tie breaking vote with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on Sunday, moving her within six votes of the almost two-century-old record held by former Vice President John Calhoun. The Constitution stipulates the vice president also serves as president of the Senate and has the authority to break ties, which has occurred with some regularity over the past year and a half given the 50-50 makeup of the upper chamber. Harris has already cast more tiebreakers than almost any other vice president, except for John Adams and Calhoun, who
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