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Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared side-by-side in hard-hit Fort Myers on Wednesday as the president surveyed damage from Hurricane Ian. The two [Read More…]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Wednesday expressed disappointment following the announcement from OPEC+ that it would cut two million barrels per day from its production quotas beginning in November. The decision [Read More…]

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump, in a limited request, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt part of an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling and restore a special master’s [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Erin Scott (WASHINGTON) — A new Biden administration report on abortion access in the U.S. describes how widely the procedure has been curtailed in the roughly 100 days after Roe [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon will stand trial in November 2023, a judge in New York said Tuesday. Bannon is charged with defrauding donors to the [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats in key swing states like Arizona and Michigan have refused to face opponents who espouse the false claim that the 2020 race was stolen from former President Donald Trump. [Read More…]

Megan Varner/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Herschel Walker, a Georgia football icon and U.S. Senate hopeful, has denied a report in the Daily Beast that an ex-girlfriend claimed he paid the cost of her abortion more [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke rolled out an ad campaign Saturday featuring tearful endorsements from families of victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde. Many Uvalde [Read More…]

Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Five members of the Oath Keepers facing charges of seditious conspiracy “concocted a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy,” a federal prosecutor said Monday in [Read More…]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified Monday during the illegal foreign lobbying trial of former Donald Trump ally Tom Barrack that he never asked Barrack to undertake any [Read More…]

Mohamad syam/500px via Getty Images (VENEZUELA) — Seven Americans detained in Venezuela have been released, the White House announced Saturday. “Today, after years of being wrongfully detained in Venezuela, we are bringing home Jorge Toledo, [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Staff via Getty Images (TEXAS) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke faced off in a debate on Friday less than six weeks before Election Day. The debate — the first [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Hurricane Ian lashing the southeast U.S. after leaving a path of destruction in Florida, President Joe Biden provided a detailed update Friday on his administration’s response to the devastating [Read More…]

Miami Herald/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In September 2017, Hurricane Irma swept across the southern tip of Florida, swamping what was then the state’s 26th Congressional District. The following July, that district’s Republican representative, Carlos Curbelo, [Read More…]

Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A bill to avert a federal government shutdown passed the House on Friday, just hours before the midnight deadline. The House voted 230-201 to pass the stopgap legislation, which will [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Hurricane Ian making landfall in Florida on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass., and Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., pressed the Biden administration for details about a much-delayed [Read More…]

OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday visited FEMA headquarters in Washington as search and rescue efforts were underway in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Upon his arrival, [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, appeared in person at the House Jan. 6 committee’s offices on Thursday morning for a closed-door interview. Cameras caught Thomas [Read More…]

DHS Photo by Benjamin Applebaum (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it had granted approval of a limited exemption in federal regulations on cabotage — or the transport of goods — in order to [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Hurricane Ian began barreling across Florida, President Joe Biden detailed his administration’s efforts to prepare for the storm and warned residents to heed warnings from officials. “It’s life-threatening,” Biden [Read More…]