Politics

President Joe Biden on Tuesday set a new vaccination goal to deliver at least one shot to 70% of adult Americans by July Fourth as he tackles the vexing problem of winning over the “doubters” and those unmotivated to get inoculated.

Five people have been charged after 97 migrants were found in a Houston house Friday in what authorities think is a smuggling operation, federal prosecutors said Monday.

As part of his American Families Plan, Biden is proposing to nearly double the top tax rate on capital gains and eliminate the “step-up in basis.”

President Joe Biden is formally raising the nation’s cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year

President Joe Biden traveled to coastal Virginia to promote his plans to increase spending on education and children, part of his $1.8 trillion families proposal announced last week

The nation’s top general says he is now open to considering a proposal to take decisions on sexual assault prosecution out of the hands of military commanders

Former President Donald Trump will find out this week whether he gets to return to Facebook

The Biden administration says four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency will be reunited in the United States this week.

As a catastrophic surge of the coronavirus sweeps through India, the leaders of 13 opposition parties are urging the government to launch a free vaccination drive and ensure an uninterrupted flow of oxygen to all hospitals

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today, on her new book Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power. The book explores how a transplant from Maryland, who settled in San Francisco, became the first woman, the first Italian-American, and the first Californian to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Re...

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School and Dan Schnur of USC and Berkeley on Caitlyn Jenner running for California Governor and the recall election. What are the odds of the electorate being upset with Governor Gavin Newsom if the recall election itself is six months from now? 

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), the author of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act which passed the House and is now in the Senate. Rep. Bass explains key points of the bill. Plus, she gives her thoughts on the accuracy of the census. California is going to lose one congressional seat because of the......

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Chuck Todd of NBC’s Meet the Press talk about President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress this past Wednesday. Why is President Biden spending tons and tons of money? What is likely to happen? Taxing the rich and corporations, tax hikes?