Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a request to the secretary of the Army to activate the D.C. National Guard. She wants help with the growing number of migrants being shipped to the nation’s capital on buses from Texas and Arizona. She describes it as a humanitarian crisis that will only get worse. “We need…

The United States Postal Service is taking steps to avoid delays in procession absentee ballots which plagued the 2020 presidential election. The Election and Government Mail Services division will focus on handling election-related matters. “We are fully committed to the secure and timely delivery of the nation’s election mail,” Adrienne Marshall, the executive director of…

House Democrats plan to announce a proposal next month to ban lawmakers, their spouses and senior staff from trading stocks, according to Punchbowl News with several sources close to the issue. The bill would force members of Congress, their spouses and senior staff to choose between putting their assets in a qualified blind trust or completely…

Social media platform Instagram is undergoing serious changes, and its users are not happy. They’re sending a message to the company that it needs to be what it was created to be and not try to emulate surging social video competitor TikTok. Instagram was once a place for people to share photos with friends, family…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed insider trading charges against former Indiana congressman Stephen Buyer and eight other individuals in connection with three separate alleged schemes that together yielded more than $6.8 million in ill-gotten gains. The charges were announced in New York by United States attorney Damian Williams. “Buyer used his job…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and members of the Biden administration are out in force, making the case that the economy is strong and not headed toward a recession. The Commerce Department will release initial GDP calculations Thursday, and some economists predict it will reveal a contraction for the second quarter in a row. “This is…

Top headlines for July 25, 2022: Deadly LA park shooting – Two people were killed and at least five others were injured in a Sunday shooting at a park in Los Angeles. No arrests were immediately made in the case, and police did not immediately offer a motive outside of saying it was “a dispute between…

Steve Bannon, the onetime adviser and campaign manager for former President Donald Trump, has been found guilty of contempt of Congress following his refusal to comply with the House select committee that is investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol. The trial began Tuesday as Bannon faced two counts of contempt for…

TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance spent more than $2.1 million on lobbying from April to June, according to Bloomberg. That’s 130% more than it spent during the first three months of the year — and there’s good reason. The relationship between TikTok and D.C. is rocky. In June, Buzzfeed reported TikTok employees in China accessed…

A professor from the University of Washington is suing his institution, claiming the school violated his First Amendment rights and then retaliated against him. Professor Stuart Reges is a faculty member at the university’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, and his case revolves around a school policy to acknowledge that the…