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MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has signed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act into law Tuesday, making lynching a hate crime under federal law. “It was pure terror, to enforce the [Read More…]

Phil Roeder/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Tuesday warned the U.S. Supreme Court that “survival of the nation is at stake” in a dispute with the state of Texas over a federal law [Read More…]

Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The group known as “The People’s Convoy,” led by truckers announced it is leaving the Washington, D.C., area this week to make a cross-country trip back to [Read More…]

JABIN BOTSFORD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The late Rep. Don Young of Alaska, the longest-serving Republican in the history of the House of Representatives, was remembered by Capitol Hill colleagues on Tuesday as his [Read More…]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will sign the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act into law Tuesday, making lynching a hate crime under federal law. Congress failed to pass anti-lynching legislation over [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign from the nation’s highest court as a growing number of Democrats demand he recuse himself from some [Read More…]

Stefani Reynolds/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack recommended on Monday that the full chamber hold senior Trump White House officials in contempt of Congress for [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Dick Durbin, is calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases following reports that Thomas’ wife, Ginni [Read More…]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Capitol finally reopened its doors Monday after being closed for nearly two years due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It will be a limited reopening that will involve [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to ask the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, for her cooperation following [Read More…]

Glowimages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine’s efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Friday [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden appeared to want to both ways when he fielded a barrage of questions Monday asking him to clarify his remarks that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jared Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law who served as a senior West Wing aide during the Trump administration, is expected to appear voluntarily before the House select committee investigating the [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge has found that former President Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed felony obstruction in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The judge said Trump’s [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Senate Judiciary Committee member Amy Klobuchar said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from certain cases after it emerged that his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, sent text messages [Read More…]

George Frey/Getty Images (SALT LAKE CITY) — The Utah state legislate has voted to override Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto of an anti-transgender sports bill that would ban transgender girls’ participation in sports. The state House and [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine’s efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Friday on [Read More…]

Henry Nicholls – Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration official is steering clear of defining any use by Russia of chemical weapons in Ukraine as a “red line,” a senior administration official told ABC News. [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson never uttered the word ’empathy’ in nearly 19 hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, but she effectively made clear it’s a [Read More…]

Maxwell Frost | Karoline Leavitt via Instagram (NEW YORK) — A new generation of politicians is emerging just in time for the midterms. This election cycle marks the first time members of Generation Z, those born [Read More…]