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Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday setting in motion a plan to make $7 billion in Afghan funds held in the United States available to compensate victims of [Read More…]

Bill Koplitz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A bill that would eliminate forced arbitration agreements for sexual assault and harassment survivors in the workplace was approved in the Senate in a voice vote Thursday, and it now [Read More…]

Mark Wilson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has found sparse call records and gaps in the White House telephone logs from Jan. 6, according to two sources familiar with [Read More…]

Paul Marotta/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As a Supreme Court confirmation battle looms, Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a sobering warning Wednesday about intensifying partisanship that she says puts the court’s independence at the brink of crisis. [Read More…]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The National Archives has asked the Justice Department to investigate former President Donald Trump’s handling of White House records, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday. [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sarah Matthews, a Trump White House press aide who resigned over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, appeared Tuesday for an interview with the House select [Read More…]

SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called out GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday, saying he “literally ran away” from ABC News Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott as she asked him [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s a move that would have been unthinkable last year: Weeks after a holiday surge crushed hospitals and more people died in a single month than a typical annual flu [Read More…]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, the second-most senior lawmaker in the House, told ABC News he has apologized to Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, after she said [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, attending an event at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, was escorted out of the room by a U.S. Secret Service agent [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican lawmakers are divided on what could become a defining issue for the GOP after the Republican National Committee passed a censure resolution last week including language critics [Read More…]

Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than 13 months after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department has readied an extensive group of witnesses and a mountain of evidence that it’s [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican lawmakers are divided on what could become a defining issue for the GOP after the Republican National Committee passed a censure resolution last week including language critics [Read More…]

Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said Monday it was “too early” to know if the probe has been impacted [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Following a day of heavy criticism, President Joe Biden’s top science adviser, Dr. Eric Lander, has resigned after an investigation into his mistreatment of staff. “The President accepted Dr. Eric [Read More…]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated Alabama’s new GOP-drawn congressional map over the objection of civil rights groups and decisions of two lower courts finding that it dilutes the influence [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) – Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, refused to condemn a censure resolution targeting two Republican colleagues, Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, which included a [Read More…]

Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) – As the standoff between Russia and the United States continues, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan warned of a “very distinct” possibility Russia will attack Ukraine at [Read More…]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new bill proposed this week would develop a federal alert system for active shooter situations, which have increased by over 1200% between 2000 and 2020. The FBI defines an [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Friday passed sweeping legislation that will invest billions of dollars into American manufacturing and scientific research in a bid to take on China’s [Read More…]