Rep.-elect Scott Franklin, combat veteran, says too many Americans take freedom for granted

Rep.-elect Young Kim, who flipped a blue California House seat for the GOP, brings to Washington a keen understanding of the U.S. immigration system from her work as a longtime congressional staffer and her personal journey of becoming an American citizen.  She knows that the system needs to be fixed.  Kim immigrated to the United States from South Korea at age 12 thanks to the family-based immigration system that President Trump had wanted to eliminate.

Georgia Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock spoke at events organized by a religious group that called on Christians to repent for military action in Iraq between at least 2007 and 2009.

Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz grew up in Soviet-controlled Ukraine and saw the "misery" that occurs when socialism fails. So the incoming GOP representative is alarmed by how the left, especially young people, have embraced socialism here in America as a solution.  She left Ukraine at the age of 21 for America for the promise of love and new opportunities.

as his most aggressive client.Ronnie Renucci QC said Richey’s conduct made him question whether the decision to free him was the right one.He also told how his client tried to intimidate police when he was interviewed in connection with an assault and robbery.The former US Marine, originally from Edinburgh, was sentenced to death for the murder of two-year-old Cynthia Collin who died in a fire at her mother’s apartment in Columbus Grove, Ohio, in June 1986.He claimed it was a miscarriage of

Members of the progressive "Squad" in the House on Thursday introduced their own bill to send $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans after President Trump this week demanded the $600 checks included in Congress' stimulus deal be increased to that number.  The legislation was spearheaded by Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; and Pramila Jayapal D-Wash.

President elect Joe Biden has officially been given the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Rep.-elect Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said Monday that "Congress shouldn't be putting themselves first in line for the COVID-19 vaccination" as many of her soon-to-be colleagues are being vaccinated following the examples of both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

A push by Republicans in Georgia to scrap absentee drop boxes currently being used in early voting in the state's twin Senate runoff elections was shot down on Thursday. A federal judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, which is situated in Augusta, dismissed the case brought by the 12th Congressional District Republican Committee.The judge said that the plaintiffs had no standing and that courts shouldn’t change election rules so close to an election.

Katharine McPhee shared baby bump photos for the first time on Wednesday, December 16.The American Idol alum, 36, rocked a blue coat and white sneakers in the mirror selfies, cradling her budding belly with a smile.

A day after pledging to taking the coronavirus vaccine in public, Joe Biden today sought to assure the public that the injections are truly good for them and help is coming from the federal government.

MacKenzie Scott, the ex wife of Jeff Bezos, says she donated $4.2 billion to 384 organizations over the last four months.

More than three dozen members of Congress signed onto a letter Tuesday calling for President-elect Joe Biden to halt the federal government's use of the death penalty and show he's willing "to dismantle its use altogether." "With a stroke of your pen, you can stop all federal executions, prohibit United States Attorneys from seeking the death penalty, dismantle death row at FCC [Federal Correctional Complex] Terre Haute, and call for the resentencing of people who are currently sentenced to

Marriage Story and hearing about when marriages go wrong and end in such a catastrophic way. So these songs are in some ways imaginary, in some ways not, and in some ways both.”But isn't spending the holiday season bogged down in the drama.

Texas GOP Rep.-elect Beth Van Duyne, who got started in local politics because of her daughter's preexisting health condition, said Americans should no longer be stuck with the Affordable Care Act. Van Duyne, who won one of the most competitive open congressional seats in the country, said she wants to work on providing a replacement for the act, known as ObamaCare, because the law's promise to make health care affordable has been broken.

Defunding police is an idea that’s quickly come to the center of our discourse – the subject of countless dinner table conversations, media reports and social media threads. Despite the newfound attention, the actual policy has very little public support, with only 15 percent of Americans in favor of abolishing police, according to Gallup.

David Byrne has opened up about the recent US election result in a new interview.Speaking to The Independent, Byrne was asked if he could have ever imagined the political events of the last five years, particularly in the US. “To be honest, no,” Byrne replied, before speaking about the recent presidential elections.He continued: “We’ve all had our dystopian fantasies of what could go wrong, and there’s plenty of books and TV shows that represent that.

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Naman Ramachandran A fascination with Vice-President elect Kamala Harris could drive American audiences towards Mira Nair’s mini-series “A Suitable Boy,” the director says.Based on Vikram Seth’s epic 1993 novel, the series follows the Mehra family and their associates as they go about the process of finding a husband for 19-year-old university student Lata Mehra (newcomer Tanya Maniktala), against the backdrop of the 1951 general elections in newly independent India.The series aired on the BBC