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ANDREY DENISYUK/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination, has been reintroduced by four Democratic legislators. Several representatives – including Representatives Mark Takano and Hakeem Jeffries and Senators Jeff [Read More…]

Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress is in a race against the clock to regulate artificial intelligence and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is unrolling the early-stage steps that the chamber will take to try [Read More…]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans, who have made one of their top priorities this session probing Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s business dealings, still say they plan to continue [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (ARKANSAS) — A federal district court judge on Tuesday struck down an Arkansas law that banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The judge said the law violates the constitutional rights of transgender [Read More…]

Photo by Robert Mooney/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump on Monday suggested he had been too “busy” and wanted to be sure he’d retrieved his personal belongings before complying with the federal government’s repeated [Read More…]

ABC News (GEORGIA) — Allegations of election fraud against two Georgia election workers who became the subjects of a Trump-backed conspiracy theory in the aftermath of the 2020 election were found to be “false and [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An “Abolition Amendment” was introduced in Congress last week that would eliminate the so-called slavery loophole in the U.S. Constitution. Ratified in 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and [Read More…]

RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump “has a prolific history of baselessly accusing state and federal judges around the country of bias” and there’s no reason the judge overseeing his criminal prosecution [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — It seems clear from his comments over the years that the fatherly relationship Joe Biden has with his son Hunter outweighs concerns about appearances and political [Read More…]

Andre Pain/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John Tien is retiring from the Department, he announced in an internal message to department staff on Tuesday. Tien, an Army veteran [Read More…]

ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — News that President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has agreed to a plea deal regarding a pair of tax-related misdemeanors follows a five-year Justice Department probe into the younger Biden’s finances [Read More…]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — District Judge Aileen Cannon has set a tentative date of Aug. 14 for the start of former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of obstruction and [Read More…]

Hill Street Studios/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — This year’s legislative elections in Virginia could determine the fate of local abortion rulemaking and gun policy, control of two narrowly divided statehouses and Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s legislative agenda. [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents is being denounced by some of the top brass in his administration. Former Attorney General Bill Barr and former Defense Secretary [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge on Monday approved a protective order sought by special counsel Jack Smith to keep former President Donald Trump from disclosing sensitive information in his classified documents [Read More…]

ABC News/ Tiff Rosborough (WASHINGTON) — As the country commemorated Juneteenth, thousands of people lined up outside the National Archives in Washington on Monday to see rarely exhibited original versions of the Emancipation Proclamation and [Read More…]

Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Despite what prosecutors claim in an unprecedented indictment against him, including an alleged recording of him saying otherwise, Donald Trump insisted on Monday that he hadn’t shown a [Read More…]

LEAH MILLIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As he prepared to leave Beijing Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared that he had accomplished one of his most critical goals for the high-stakes trip: strengthening [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At 10 months old, Hodge Gomez has already roamed the halls of Congress, meeting with politicians and presidents. He even went viral — watching all 15 rounds [Read More…]

FotografiaBasica/Getty Images (GREENVILLE, S.C) — The South Carolina Republican Party voted unanimously on Saturday to hold their 2024 GOP presidential primary on February 24 next year, sources close to the process told ABC News. The potential [Read More…]