![Merrick Garland will step into his first congressional hot seat as attorney general May 4, when he testifies before the House Appropriations Committee to propose a multibillion-dollar budget increase for the Justice Department.](https://kentwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/a484b51bdd6bc7b1728fbebd70f020d8-900x506.jpg)
Merrick Garland cites domestic terrorism and civil rights in defending budget to House lawmakers
Christina Carrega, Chandelis Duster and Jessica Schneider, CNN
• May 4, 2021
![The skyline of Washington, DC, including the US Capitol building, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and National Mall, is seen from the air, January 29, 2010.](https://kentwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/67bbe479c98bf897aea3a3f9166ce3bd-900x564.jpg)
House passes bill that would grant DC statehood
Clare Foran, CNN
• April 22, 2021
![This image from NASA's EarthKAM shows Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The superb natural harbor at Lisbon is a commercially important European port handling much of the import-export traffic for Portugal and Spain.](https://kentwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/348ec339d719852b06faa23f997f712e-900x599.jpg)
On Earth Day, here’s the view from space
By Katia Hetter and Ashley Strickland, CNN
• April 22, 2021
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