Pelosi requests removal of Confederate statues in Capitol

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Cotton and Schumer clash over police reform

Sen. Tom Cotton. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Sen. Tom Cotton and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer…

Dems locking down votes on police reform

House Democrats are swiftly lining up support for their policing reform package, including among their most…

McConnell accuses NYT of ‘lying’ over Tom Cotton op-ed

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered scathing criticism of The New York Times on Wednesday for…

Why the University Is the Great Startup Platform

Universities are a breeding ground for ideas. They gather together the best brains of the day…

Read: George Floyd’s brother’s opening statement at today’s hearing on police reforms

By POLITICO STAFF 06/10/2020 11:02 AM EDT Read prepared opening remarks below that Philonise Floyd, the…

‘I’m tired’: George Floyd’s brother pleads for police reforms

By KYLE CHENEY 06/10/2020 10:11 AM EDT Updated: 06/10/2020 03:40 PM EDT The brother of George…

Ousted State Department watchdog tells lawmakers he’s unaware if Pompeo probes were stopped

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. | Nicholas Kamm/Pool Photo via AP Former State Department watchdog Steve…

US producers ‘in tears’ at having to cull livestock on their farms

As traumatised US farmers continue to cull their animals in response to the slaughterhouse crisis, an…

Chris Packham: ‘The virus has taught us that we are part of nature, not above it’

‘I’m tramping through damp, long grass in the wake of two poodles,” Chris Packham tells me,…