GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciary

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 4:03 PM

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that he hopes to replace Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and aims to set up a floor vote on the issue this afternoon, which Republicans are expected to block.

Supreme Court seems sympathetic to postal worker who didn't work Sundays in dispute over religious accommodations

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 11:37 AM

The Supreme Court seemed to side with a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who says the US Postal Service failed to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays.

Anti-abortion doctors urge Supreme Court to keep mifepristone restrictions in place

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 10:35 AM

A group of doctors opposed to abortion asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to restrict access to a key medication abortion drug while other legal challenges play out, as Wednesday night's deadline for the court to act approaches.

McCarthy makes plea for Republicans to back debt ceiling plan

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 9:17 AM

Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a plea to House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to back his debt ceiling plan, telling them that although it doesn't have to include everything they want, it will help get him to the negotiating table with President Joe Biden.

Fulton County, Georgia, jail leadership resigns after inmate's death and accusations of unsanitary conditions

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 9:08 AM

Three officials at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail have stepped down amid an investigation into the death of an inmate whose family said was housed in a filthy, bug-infested cell that "was not fit for a diseased animal."