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PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — After drone sightings and even reports of a man flying in a jetpack around Los Angeles International Airport, the federal government is rolling out new tech [Read More…]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Monday said its team tasked with identifying potential attorney-client privileged materials that were seized in the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday pushed back on Republicans who called President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan unfair — with Sanders arguing the GOP turned a blind eye to [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., conceded on Sunday that former President Donald Trump should have returned the sensitive and classified documents that the government says he took home with him after leaving [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (BETHESDA, Md.) — A State Department employee was killed this week while riding her bike in Maryland. The Montgomery County Police Department confirmed Sarah Joan Langenkamp, 42, was struck by a flatbed truck [Read More…]

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Friday made public the redacted affidavit that supported the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. After [Read More…]

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Americans who qualify for the student loan relief President Joe Biden announced Wednesday can apply starting in early October, the White House said Friday. Relief will come four [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s plans to cancel student loans will particularly impact Black Americans, who carry much of the burden of student loan debt. “The burden is especially heavy on Black [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday will host a fundraiser with Senate candidates in key battleground states a week after appearing to criticize the “quality” — of some GOP [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Several Republicans who were nominated as firebrands in purple states are now eyeing post-primary messaging pivots in a policy acrobatics routine that could determine the outcome of marquee races. Politicians [Read More…]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Thursday is expected to file a heavily redacted version of the affidavit used to support a search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this [Read More…]

DHS Photo by Benjamin Applebaum (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security took steps on Wednesday to codify the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into regulatory policy — even as a court case [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, FILE (DES MOINES, Iowa) — As the final speaker at the Iowa State Fair’s Des Moines Register Soapbox — a mainstay for presidential hopefuls and statewide candidates — [Read More…]

Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Most of the Florida school board candidates backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis won their elections on Tuesday — an indication that the ascendant Republican’s [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Kim Cheatle to lead the United States Secret Service, the White House announced. “Kim has had a long and distinguished career at the [Read More…]

OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration is forgiving some student loan debt for U.S. borrowers and extending the federal student loan repayment pause until Dec. 31, [Read More…]

Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Under order from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Justice Department on Wednesday released a 2019 memo used by former Attorney General William Barr to justify his decision [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge is expected to rule Wednesday on the Biden administration’s lawsuit against a near-total ban on abortions in Idaho. The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state over [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday in a “rebound” case, her office said. The first lady — who first tested positive on Aug. 16 — received her [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of another deadline on the restart of payments for America’s $1.7 trillion in federal student loans, President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a plan to [Read More…]