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ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of Republican leadership, said he will not vote to support President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, for her historic confirmation to the [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is warning that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “far from over,” despite the claim by Moscow that they are retreating from Kyiv and surrounding [Read More…]

Megan Varner/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While many mainstream Republicans look toward making waves in the midterm elections, some are still clinging to the past. After GOP Rep. Mo Brooks’ recently confessed that former President Donald Trump [Read More…]

Michael Schwartz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former GOP vice president candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will run for Alaska’s at-large Congress seat vacated by the late Rep. Don Young, she announced on her Facebook page [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republicans on Capitol Hill appeared frustrated with the weeklong controversy sparked by Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who made unsubstantiated claims in a recent interview that some of his colleagues invited him to [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New cars in the U.S. will need to meet stricter fuel economy standards, the Biden administration announced Friday. The rule will require passenger cars, trucks and vans produced for the model [Read More…]

ilbusca/Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A California task force’s decision to limit reparations for slavery to people who can trace their lineage to free and enslaved Black people living in the U.S. during the 19th century [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it is officially ending Title 42, the controversial policy implemented by the Trump administration restricting migrants from coming into the country under [Read More…]

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…]