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Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An athletic icon and business success, Herschel Walker has the type of background that Republicans hope will propel him to the U.S. Senate, where his presence [Read More…]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top Pentagon officials told a House panel on Tuesday that there are now close to 400 reports from military personnel of possible encounters with UFOs — a significant [Read More…]

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department special counsel investigating the origins of the probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election is facing his first major test in federal court [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Assuming his role as consoler in chief, President Joe Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to visit a community in mourning and call out the [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Assuming his role as consoler in chief, President Joe Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to visit a community in mourning following Saturday’s racially-motivated mass [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Assuming his role as consoler-in-chief, President Joe Biden will travel to Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday, to visit a community in mourning following Saturday’s racially-motivated mass shooting at [Read More…]

adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Primary elections on Tuesday night in five states will showcase some of the many factors that have been swirling around the 2022 midterm elections, including the power of endorsements, shakeups from [Read More…]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Almost a year after a long-awaited U.S. intelligence report on UFOs provided few answers to what military pilots had encountered in more than 140 incidents, top Pentagon [Read More…]

John Elk III/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House announced a historic shift in its policy toward Cuba Monday night, saying that for the first time in six decades it will sign off on an [Read More…]

Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In her first sit-down interview since leaving Washington, Melania Trump appeared on Fox News on Sunday where she addressed some of her ongoing work as a former first [Read More…]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority Monday struck down a 20-year-old campaign finance limit aimed at curbing corruption in politics, delivering a win to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who had challenged [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top Republicans in the House of Representatives are facing new scrutiny as critics, including within their own party, contend they failed to condemn the same racist rhetoric espoused by the [Read More…]

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The gunman who opened fire on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in what authorities described as a “racially-motivated attack” has a “hate-filled soul,” President Joe Biden said [Read More…]

Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., was hospitalized this weekend after suffering a minor stroke, he said Sunday. He was admitted to George Washington University Hospital after experiencing lightheadedness and acute [Read More…]

Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Pennsylvania’s Lt. Gov John Fetterman, the leading Democratic candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race, said Sunday that he suffered a stroke on Friday. “I had a stroke [Read More…]

Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that social media companies have to address and track down extremism on their platforms, after a gunman who reportedly espoused white [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hundreds of pro-abortion rights protests are planned nationwide Saturday in the wake of a bombshell leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that indicated the court’s conservative majority could soon [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday defended his administration’s response to an ongoing baby formula shortage that has triggered public outcry from parents, lawmakers and drawn Republican fire. “There’s nothing more urgent [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) —  Outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki delivered an emotional farewell from the briefing room podium Friday afternoon — expressing thanks to President Joe Biden, her administration colleagues and even [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Justice Department lawyers and attorneys representing a coalition of GOP-led states were in court on Friday to again trade jabs about whether the Biden administration can lift pandemic-based restrictions at the [Read More…]