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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland tested positive for COVID-19 via antigen tests Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Justice said. “He asked to be tested after learning that he may have been [Read More…]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is expected to appear Wednesday before the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the Capitol attack, according to multiple sources familiar with his [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday expressed outrage over the “horrible images” of killed civilians in Ukraine and said the U.S. is working with international partners to identify those responsible. [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Republican candidates are shying away from the debate stage as the midterm elections approach. Over a half dozen GOP candidates in crucial state and federal races have either skipped [Read More…]

Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (BREMERTON, Wash.) — A coach’s personal act of prayer that grew into a public spectacle after Bremerton High School football games is now a major test of the First Amendment in a [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House is attempting to speed up the nation’s response to long COVID by establishing a new task force to coordinate research efforts across the government. President Joe Biden [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin got into a fiery exchange with Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz during a House Armed Services Committee budget hearing Tuesday, as Gaetz accused the Pentagon of strategic [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — Oklahoma passed a bill Tuesday that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to several years in prison. The bill was passed in the [Read More…]

Ian Forsyth/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For the first time since leaving office, former President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday to join his former vice president — Joe Biden — in promoting [Read More…]

Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Three Republican senators — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah — have taken the political risk of breaking from their party [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter and former senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, will meet today with the House Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack, sources tell ABC [Read More…]

Ian Forsyth/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For the first time since leaving office, former President Barack Obama is scheduled to return to the White House on Tuesday to join his former vice president in promoting the [Read More…]

KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce new steps his administration is taking to build on the Affordable Care Act, including a new executive order and a proposed [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — By a bipartisan vote of 53-47, the Senate has forced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson out of the Judiciary Committee — putting the judge on track for final confirmation [Read More…]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The killing of Ukrainian civilians committed by Russian forces in Ukraine is a war crime, President Joe Biden said Monday — repeating his accusation that Russian President Vladimir [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, was expected to pass a major milestone Monday on her way to expected Senate confirmation later this week. [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of pleas from the White House for Congress to approve more money toward COVID-19 programs that were at risk of being cut, Senators have put forward a new bill [Read More…]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The killings of Ukrainian civilians committed by Russian forces in Ukraine is a war crime, President Joe Biden said Monday — repeating his accusation that Russian President Vladimir [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, is expected to pass a major milestone Monday on her way to expected Senate confirmation later this [Read More…]

Handout/DNCC via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hunter Biden is apparently spending his father’s presidency living in luxury in Malibu — and so is his taxpayer-funded security detail. The Secret Service detail protecting the president’s controversial [Read More…]