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Takeaways: Election denier wins, bad behavior dooms Cawthorn

Former president Donald Trump’s influence was enough to elevate his Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on Tuesday, while his pick in Pennsylvania remained in a tough fight in that state’s Senate primary.

North Carolina Representative Cawthorn concedes GOP primary to Edwards

First-term US Representative Madison Cawthorn conceded his Republican primary race Tuesday to state Senator Chuck Edwards, ousting the pro-Donald Trump firebrand from Congress after his personal and political blunders translated into constituent unhappiness.

At House hearing, videos of unexplained aerial sightings and a push for answers

The highlight of the hearing was a split-second image, shot last year through the window of an FA-18 jet, of a spherical object in the distance. The pilot also reported observing an object. It remains unexplained.

Justice Department requests transcripts from Jan. 6 committee

The move, coming as Attorney General Merrick Garland appears to be ramping up the pace of his investigation into the 2021 Capitol riot, is the clearest sign yet of a wide-ranging inquiry at the Justice Department.

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Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray pointed to a video display of a UAP during a hearing of the House Intelligence, Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing on "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

House panel opens public hearing on unexplained aerial sightings

Pentagon officials testifying at a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday showed a previously classified video of an unidentified aerial phenomena, a fleeting color video of a reflective spherical object speeding past a military fighter jet.

Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who represented the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, leaves a federal courthouse in Washington Monday. He is accused of misleading the FBI.

Clinton campaign lawyer sought to ‘use’ FBI, prosecutor says

Michael Sussmann is accused of misleading the FBI during a September 2016 meeting by telling the bureau’s top lawyer that he wasn’t acting on behalf of a particular client when he presented computer data that he said might connect Russia to then-candidate Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects to the victims of Saturday's shooting at a memorial across the street from the TOPS Market in Buffalo, N.Y. on Tuesday.

‘Hate will not prevail’: In Buffalo, Biden condemns racism, mourns victims of attack

“In America, evil will not win, I promise you,” President Biden said. “Hate will not prevail, white supremacy will not have the last word.”

Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro, of Connecticut, listened during a hearing before the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies of House Appropriations Committee at Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill May 11, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Democrats propose $28 million for FDA to bolster baby formula supply

House Democrats propose providing $28 million in emergency funding for the Food and Drug Administration to address the shortage of infant formula in the US and provide tighter oversight of the industry.

A child gets a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2021.

FDA clears COVID booster shot for healthy kids ages 5 to 11

There is one more hurdle: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must decide whether to formally recommend the booster for this age group.

Signs pointed the way for voters to cast their ballots at the polling location for the Pennsylvania primary election on Tuesday in Harmony, Pa.

Pennsylvania governor race divides Republicans, unites Democrats

The winner of the Pennsylvania governor race is likely to share power with a Republican-led Legislature, where entrenched GOP majorities have controlled the floors for nearly all of the past three decades.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.( right) spoke with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (left) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La. at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.

Republicans who helped advance racist theory connected to Buffalo shooting don’t repudiate their rhetoric

Even the charge Monday by Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, that the “House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and antisemitism” was met largely with silence.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Monday.

‘Representation does matter’: Karine Jean-Pierre holds first briefing as White House press secretary

“I am obviously acutely aware that my presence at this podium represents a few firsts,” Karine Jean-Pierre said before taking questions from reporters. “I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position.”

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