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Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has spent much of this week defending the department’s newly established Disinformation Governance Board in response to Republican lawmakers’ concerns about partisan influence in federal [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — U.S. officials on Thursday pushed back on a New York Times report that said the U.S. provided Ukraine intelligence that helped it target and kill Russian generals and other [Read More…]

Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney Kathryn Kolbert has spent a majority of her career thinking about the after-effects on reproductive rights if the Supreme Court was to overturn Roe v. Wade. She [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — After a year and a half at the podium, White House press secretary Jen Psaki is planning to leave the White House on May 13, and her current deputy, [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate will take a procedural vote to start debate on codifying abortion rights next week, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday. Democrats have pledged to take swift action on [Read More…]

Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new, imposing eight-foot-high fence was erected overnight at the U.S. Supreme Court in the wake of protests over a bombshell draft opinion on abortion. The leaked ruling, [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg Creative Photos/FILE (WASHINGTON) — State governments across the country are taking steps to firm up abortion rights if the Supreme Court decides to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that granted protections [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Abortion-rights advocates are responding to the leaked draft opinion of the Supreme Court majority opinion on the pending Mississippi abortion case that was first reported by Politico on Monday. [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 via a PCR test Wednesday afternoon, the State Department said. Blinken, who is vaccinated and boosted, is experiencing mild symptoms. [Read More…]

Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — As Dr. Mehmet Oz embarks on a bid for the U.S. Senate, the television star has largely shied away from discussing his ties to Turkey, where he maintains [Read More…]

Sarah Silbiger/Pool/Getty Images/FILE (WASHINGTON) — Attorneys with the Department of Justice recently clashed behind closed doors with staff members for the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, two sources familiar with the [Read More…]

adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Politically minded eyes were on Ohio and Indiana Tuesday night, as the Republican and Democratic parties faced renewed identity crises, pulled between election denialism and anti-Trump factions on the right and [Read More…]

Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The first multistate contest of the 2022 midterm season kicked off Tuesday with primary races in Ohio and Indiana. Ohio’s Senate race marked the first major sign of [Read More…]

Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The first multistate contest of the 2022 midterm season kicks off Tuesday with primary races in Ohio and Indiana. Ohio’s Senate race marks the first major test of [Read More…]

Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed an abortion bill Tuesday that is modeled after a controversial Texas law. The bill, formally known as S.B. 1503, creates [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Comments on abortion rights made by the recent conservative additions to the Supreme Court during their Senate confirmation hearings are under fresh scrutiny after a leaked draft Supreme Court [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A draft of the SCOTUS decision on the Mississippi case that challenges Roe v. Wade was leaked Monday night, first reported by Politico. According to the copy of the draft [Read More…]

Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid reports of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, an ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that majorities of Americans support upholding Roe, say [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the bombshell leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion indicating a reported majority of conservative justices is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, all eyes [Read More…]

NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden weighed in Tuesday morning on the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion showing the panel’s conservative majority of justices is poised to overturn nearly 50 years [Read More…]