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VisionsofAmerica/Joe Sohm/Getty Images (CLENDENIN, W. Va.) — A historic flood from sudden torrential rain nearly wiped out entire towns in West Virginia’s mountainous coal country, killing 23 and inflicting $1 billion in damage. Six years [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Following a call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday his administration is authorizing an additional $800 million for weapons and ammunition for Ukraine, including artillery [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is getting both praise and criticism after doubling down on describing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine as “genocide” — the first time he’s used the [Read More…]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (PIERRE, S.D.) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was impeached Tuesday by lawmakers in the state House of Representatives over the 2020 crash he was involved in that left [Read More…]

Evgen Kotenko/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the U.S. assessment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine’s efforts to fight back. Here are highlights [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden addressed the New York City subway system shooting that left at least 29 injured on Tuesday while he was in Iowa as federal authorities in [Read More…]

Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Just as he was emerging as a top target of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, former Trump lawyer John Eastman took a trip [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, announced a new measure Monday to crack down on what law enforcement says is the growing problem of “ghost guns” [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice are set to announce a final rule on “ghost guns” on Monday in the Rose Garden. A “ghost gun” is a firearm [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the White House, said Americans should continue assessing risk for themselves as COVID-19 cases tick up. “It’s going to be a person’s decision [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the latest reports of Ukrainian civilians being tortured and killed by Russian troops have been “horrifying…downright shocking, but they have not been surprising.” Sullivan [Read More…]

Sean Gallup/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As politicians spar over who’s to blame for recent increases in gas prices, a large majority of Americans say oil companies and Russian President Vladimir Putin are major culprits, [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The New York Attorney General’s Office asked a judge Friday to force Cushman & Wakefield to comply with subpoenas issued in connection with the civil investigation of former President [Read More…]

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The two men accused of impersonating federal law enforcement agents are a risk to national security, government prosecutors said in a court document, pushing to keep the men in [Read More…]

Julie Bennett/Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — In the latest salvo of legislation targeting LGBTQ youth, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed into law two bills banning transgender health care for minors and teaching about gender identity [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House is charging ahead with President Joe Biden’s schedule despite an uptick of COVID-19 cases among Washington politicians and staff members, including some in the president’s inner circle and [Read More…]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGON) — The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the U.S. assessment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine’s efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a senior [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As she presided over Thursday’s historic confirmation vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Vice President Kamala Harris gave an assignment [Read More…]

Oliver Contreras/for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden celebrated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic confirmation to the Supreme Court at the White House on Friday with a tearful Jackson delivering [Read More…]

Oliver Contreras/for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will celebrate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court at a large-scale event at the White House on Friday amid [Read More…]