A 32-year-old man from Lawrence, Kansas was convicted this week of a single count of threatening a government official after he left a number of threatening voicemails for Republican Rep. Jake LaTurner.
The U.S. government bumped up against its debt limit Thursday, prompting the Treasury Department to take “extraordinary” accounting steps to avoid default — as friction between President Joe Biden and House Republicans raised concern about whether the U.S. can sidestep an economic crisis.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the case of a Guatemalan transgender woman who is seeking to avoid deportation from the U.S. after a lower court said she didn’t go through the proper process to demonstrate she would be persecuted in her home country if she were deported.
On Friday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote a letter to congressional leaders warning that the U.S. would hit its debt limit on January 19 and encouraged Congress to "act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the United States," CNBC reported.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the federal government will continue building the Canadian military in response to "persistent threats" from "authoritarian states."
