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Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden touted the nation’s economic recovery on Friday while also acknowledging the financial hardships currently intensified by the war in Ukraine. “Americans are back [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call (WASHINGTON) — The House is once again poised to pass legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, known as the MORE Act, would [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday a multi-pronged policy agenda for the Republican Party, the latest in a series of indicators he’s planning to mount a run for [Read More…]

Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Arizona and Kentucky are moving forward on 15-week abortion bans before a Supreme Court decision in June could decide the fate of the procedure in the [Read More…]

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — A lawsuit has been filed against the State of Florida over the newly signed Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” [Read More…]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top Senate negotiators have said they are close to striking a deal to approve $10 billion in additional COVID relief funding with just a handful of days remaining before Congress [Read More…]

SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — He still hasn’t found what he’s looking for: emergency COVID-19 relief funding to distribute more vaccines to underserved countries. U2’s frontrunner Paul “Bono” Hewson visited Capitol Hill on [Read More…]

Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice is expanding its criminal probe into the events of Jan. 6 to include preparations for the rally that preceded the storming of the U.S. [Read More…]

Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Wednesday night unanimously confirmed Deborah Lipstadt, Biden’s nominee for special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, after months of calls from the Jewish community to move [Read More…]

grandriver/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security is expected to move forward this week with lifting Title 42 restrictions — the Trump-era order giving the government authority to expel migrants at the southern [Read More…]

ak_phuong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is facing a time crunch as investigators scramble to piece together former President Donald Trump’s words and actions on Jan. 6, [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Over the last 24 hours, the Pentagon has seen “less than 20%” of the Russian troops that had been around Kyiv moving northward as they “reposition” into Belarus so [Read More…]

Handout/DNCC via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The federal investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, over his tax affairs has intensified in recent weeks, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. An [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — Oklahoma and Arizona became the latest states to impose transgender sports bans Wednesday. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law banning transgender women and girls from competing [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received his second booster shot before television cameras on Wednesday following remarks at the White House about the state of the country’s COVID response. Biden’s speech promoted [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will receive his second booster shot following his scheduled remarks Wednesday about the state of the country’s COVID response, according to the White House. Biden is expected [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine plans to support the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, the nominee’s [Read More…]

Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security is bracing for as many as 18,000 migrants per day at the southern border if Title 42 is revoked, according to senior DHS [Read More…]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Politicians and family members are calling on Congress to step up and do more to help soldiers who were affected by potentially deadly diseases caused by toxic burn pits. The [Read More…]

Glowimages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon is seeing “small numbers” of Russian troops repositioning to the north of Kyiv but is not labeling it a withdrawal as Russia has characterized it. Instead, it believes the [Read More…]