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President Joe Biden reportedly cancelled his Christmas plans in Delaware and returned to the White House on the same day when VP Kamala Harris announced she will not be travelling to California. The former, accompanied by First Lady Jill Biden, was seen swiftly leaving with his motorcade late on Thursday night. .... Some users on X, platform formerly known as Twitter, speculated that there is a White House emergency that Biden and Harris need to attend to. "Kamala Harris just abruptly cancelled her planned trip to California and “raced to the White House,” per reporters Biden also just returned to...

Before the week is done, one of the longest single "days" in the history of the Senate is expected to finally come to an end. Amid a long-running dispute over decades-old filibuster rules, Senate leaders have used a parliamentary trick to leave the chamber in a state of suspended animation - in reality adjourned since Jan. 5 but officially considered in a long recess that's part of the same individual legislative day. This nearly three-week break has taken place in large part so leadership could hold private negotiations to consider how to deal with a group of Democrats agitating to...