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Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Gavin Newsom has never been afraid to throw an elbow. During the surge of the delta variant, California’s Democratic governor sat on the glossy sound [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday touched down in the Middle East for the first time as president, for a visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank [Read More…]

uschools/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 will focus Tuesday on extremist groups’ alleged coordination with former President Donald Trump and his allies ahead of and during the Capitol attack. Stephen [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — First lady Jill Biden apologized Tuesday through her spokesperson after receiving public backlash for saying in a speech Monday that Latinos are “as unique as breakfast tacos.” Spokesperson Michael LaRosa tweeted [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Monday cited some of its past successes as it played down a new New York Times/Siena College poll showing President Joe Biden’s approval rating almost scraping [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge on Monday rejected a series of explanations by former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon as to why he failed to comply with a subpoena issued by [Read More…]

U.S. Justice Department (WASHINGTON) — An Ohio man who accused Joe Biden, other Democrats, and the mainstream media of “treason” is set to testify in a public hearing Tuesday before the House committee investigating the [Read More…]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will host hundreds impacted by gun violence on the White House South Lawn Monday to tout the first major bipartisan gun legislation to pass through Congress [Read More…]

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department revealed in an early Monday morning court filing that federal investigators interviewed former President Donald Trump’s attorney Justin Clark two weeks ago in connection with [Read More…]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 on Tuesday announced its next hearing: July 12 beginning at 1 p.m. ET. The panel has been holding a [Read More…]

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — “Keep making your point. It’s critically important,” President Joe Biden said as for his message to the thousands of abortion-rights activists who gathered outside the White House on [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, a former top adviser in Donald Trump’s White House, recently told the House panel investigating the Capitol riot that he would be willing to [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a member of the House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot, said Sunday that Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone didn’t contradict previous testimony by other witnesses [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday touted falling gas prices, robust new jobs numbers and a low unemployment rate to make the case that his economic program and fight to bring [Read More…]

ilbusca/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Louisiana Supreme Court ruling allowed the state’s ban on almost all abortions to go into effect on Friday, after a series of court challenges by local abortion providers was moved [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Image (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone appeared on Capitol Hill Friday morning for a closed-door interview with House Jan. 6 committee investigators after negotiations over what he could be [Read More…]

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion nationwide despite efforts [Read More…]

Zach Gibson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act signed into law last month most likely would not have prevented the recent Fourth of July massacre and won’t eliminate future mass shootings — but [Read More…]

d3sign/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline prepares for the launch of its new three-digit number, 988, on July 16, experts said Thursday they’re excited about the opportunity to reimagine crisis care [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Marshals Service Director Ronald Davis said protecting Supreme Court justices from threats has been a key part of his agency’s mission even before the leaked draft of the opinion overturning [Read More…]