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Vote likely to overturn it this week. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has our update and explainer from capitol hill. good evening, chad. >> good evening, bret. no takebacks. that is the message from the senate to the d.c. city council. the council tried to claw back its perceived soft on crime bill. president biden said he would sign a g.o.p. plan to intervene and in the citys affairs. the senate still plans to vote midweek to big foot the bill. council did not explain its reaso...

The D.C. Council said Monday it wants to withdraw an overhaul of its criminal code that weakened penalties for crimes like carjacking because Congress is poised to rescind the law under its constitutional authority.

But a Senate leadership aide said a vote disapproving of the legislation approved by the D.C. Council is still expected to happen.

DC council tries to claw back controversial criminal justice bill headed for failure in US Senate

 

President Joe Biden told fellow Democrats that he won't veto a Republican-led effort to reverse a crime bill ...

Ireland, Irish Éire, country of western Europe occupying five-sixths of the westernmost major island of the British Isles. The magnificent scenery of Ireland’s Atlantic coastline faces a 2,000-mile- (3,200-km-) wide expanse of ocean, and its geographic isolation has helped it to develop a rich heritage of culture and tradition that was linked initially to the Gaelic language. Washed by abundant rain, the country’s pervasive grasslands create a green-hued landscape that is responsible for t...

Living in the nation’s capital has plenty of perks, but its lack of full self-government isn’t one of them.

The Republican-controlled House voted to block a pair of laws passed by the D.C. Council that would have updated the capital's criminal code and allowed non-citizens to vote in local elections.

As we honor leaders in Black history this month, the battles they lead for civil rights may seem like relics of a past era. But there is more progress to be