Ismail Al Ghoul, an Al Jazeera journalist, told CNN he and his team were detained for 12 hours, stripped to their underwear and blindfolded throughout – despite the rain and cold.
The spending in the bill largely tracks with an agreement that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked out with the White House in May 2023, which restricted spending for two years and suspended the debt ceiling into January 2025 so the federal government could continue paying its bills.
The new logo features a hawk soaring into the Pinole Valley with green hills draped in fog and split by a flowing creek, creating a "calming, yet commanding presence," one official said.
California voters have passed a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis.
In launching their Biden impeachment inquiry last year, the House Republicans relied in large part on unverified claims from a now-disgraced FBI informant released by Senate Republicans suggesting Burisma-related payments totaling $10 million to the Bidens were discussed.