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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…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Internal Revenue Service is asking a government watchdog to review a pair of exceedingly rare and invasive tax audits targeting James Comey and Andrew McCabe, a spokesperson confirmed [Read More…]

Tim Graham/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Ever since the mass shooting at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, which left seven people dead and dozens more seriously wounded, questions have been raised about [Read More…]

Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a new statement following the resignation of U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, President Joe Biden on Thursday stressed “the special relationship” between the U.S. and U.K. [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — In his first network interview, the director of the United States Marshals Service told ABC News the U.S. Marshals Service is focusing on “trigger pullers” — repeat offenders who shoot and [Read More…]

Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday will award 17 individuals with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The medal is given to those who [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Speaking alongside his British counterpart in London on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray called China the “biggest long-term threat” to both the U.S. and the U.K. “The Chinese government [Read More…]

Allison Joyce/Getty Images, FILE (RALEIGH, N.C.) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order to strengthen access to reproductive health care in the state on Wednesday. The order takes several steps to defend [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Senate Democrats have reached agreement on a key portion of a revised domestic policy bill, once known as Build Back Better, which would allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug [Read More…]

Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — White House communications director Kate Bedingfield plans to depart in late July, according to administration officials. Bedingfield is a longtime top aide to President Joe Biden: She [Read More…]

GC Images/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield is being held in contempt of court for refusing to comply with subpoenas for information related to its business relationship with the [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone has reached a deal with the Jan. 6 committee to testify in a transcribed interview Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter. The [Read More…]

Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images (HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.) — Vice President Kamala Harris made a previously unscheduled trip on Tuesday night to Highland Park, Illinois — the site of a deadly mass shooting during a [Read More…]

Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (TRENTON, N.J.) — New Jersey Gov. Philip Murphy signed new gun legislation into law on Tuesday, making it harder for residents in the state to get a handgun [Read More…]