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Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s “symptoms have improved” one day after testing positive for COVID-19, the physician to the president, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, said in a statement Friday. [Read More…]

Hawley takes flack for running from Capitol after encouraging Jan. 6 protesters

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley was taking flack online and back home in Missouri on Friday after the Jan. 6 committee showed surveillance video of him running [Read More…]

Jan. 6 hearing raises new questions about Secret Service, Pence’s safety

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s latest hearing put the Secret Service even more under the spotlight after a recent revelation about the agency deleting text messages from around [Read More…]

Bannon trial live updates: After guilty verdict, Bannon rips Jan. 6 committee members

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist before departing the White House in August 2017, is on trial for defying a subpoena from the House select [Read More…]

California governor signs gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law

Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new gun bill on Friday that is explicitly modeled after Texas’ unprecedented abortion law. The state is [Read More…]

Dramatic details you may have missed from Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 select committee used its second prime-time hearing Thursday to make the case that President Donald Trump not only did nothing to stop the [Read More…]

Trump ‘chose not to act’ as mob attacked, Jan. 6 committee says

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s second prime-time hearing focused on what it said was then-President Donald Trump’s “187 minutes” of inaction — from the time he left the [Read More…]

Bannon trial live updates: Defense rests its case after telling judge they were ‘stymied’

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist before departing the White House in August 2017, is on trial for defying a subpoena from the House select [Read More…]

DHS inspector general opens criminal probe into deleted Secret Service texts

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has turned the inquiry into the Secret Service deleted text messages into a criminal investigation, three sources familiar with the situation confirmed [Read More…]

President Biden tests positive for COVID-19

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time Thursday morning, his office said. Biden, 79, has “very mild symptoms” and is taking Paxlovid, [Read More…]

House votes to guarantee contraception access in federal law

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Thursday passed a The Right to Contraception Act that ensures access to contraception, such as birth control, to anyone who needs it — a move coming less [Read More…]

What is witness tampering, and could Trump possibly be charged?

Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 is holding its second prime-time hearing on Thursday, which will focus on the Trump White House’s reaction to the insurrection as it [Read More…]

Prime-time Jan. 6 hearing to focus on Trump’s riot response, with new testimony and evidence

Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold the eighth in its latest string of hearings on Thursday starting at 8 p.m. [Read More…]

New mural calls attention to Americans held abroad as loved ones say, ‘This doesn’t go away’

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Families of several Americans who are detained abroad arrived in Washington on Wednesday morning to unveil a mural depicting them in an effort, their relatives say, to increase [Read More…]

Bannon trial live updates: FBI agent details Bannon’s social posts about subpoena

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist before departing the White House in August 2017, is on trial for defying a subpoena from the House select [Read More…]

Georgia prosecutors ‘target’ 16 ‘fake electors’ in 2020 election probe

Jason Marz/Getty Images (FULTON COUNTY, Ga.) — The Georgia district attorney probing former President Donald Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state has notified 16 [Read More…]

Sen. John Thune speaks about inflation and House vote to protect same-sex marriage

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On Tuesday, House Democrats passed a bill which would protect same-sex and interracial marriages, in response to the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and fear among lawmakers [Read More…]

Georgia’s 6-week abortion ban to go into effect immediately in ‘unorthodox’ ruling

Joseph Sohm; Visions of America/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Georgia’s so-called “heartbeat law” can go into effect, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday, making the state the latest to institute a six-week ban on abortion [Read More…]

Senate Democrats’ campaign arm sees Roe surge, outraises GOP counterpart in second quarter

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Democrats’ campaign arm outraised its Republican counterpart in the second quarter of 2022 amid a fierce battle for control of the upper chamber, which is split 50-50. In numbers [Read More…]

Biden to announce executive actions on climate change that still fall short