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iStock/leekris (NEW YORK) — Exactly two months after allowing Texas to impose a near-total ban on abortions, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday was taking a closer look at the groundbreaking state law deliberately designed [Read More…]

Antonio Masiello/Getty Images (ROME) — President Joe Biden reflected on progress he made with other world leaders at this weekend’s G-20 summit, including ways to combat climate change, as the event wrapped up in Rome on [Read More…]

levkr/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is “optimistic” that the bipartisan infrastructure bill will pass the House and Senate, he said Sunday. “We’re very optimistic the president put forward this framework because he believes [Read More…]

uschools/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Sunday he, Rep. Liz Cheney and “a few others” are the only House Republicans “telling the truth.” “You can fight to try to tell the truth, you [Read More…]

iStock/slowmotiongli (NEW YORK) — For the next two weeks, governments around the world will convene for a highly anticipated summit on climate change that has been billed as the “last best chance” to meet the [Read More…]

iStock/lamontak590623 (NEW YORK) — Negotiations on the infrastructure and social program bills have consumed Capitol Hill for months. Still, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday finds Democrats are failing to sell the legislation to [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Construction of an oil pipeline deep in America’s heartland has become one of the most contentious environmental battles in the country. The thousand-mile long Line 3 pipeline transports Canadian tar sands [Read More…]

grandriver/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is considering making settlement payments to migrants who were separated from their children during the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance policy,” according to two people familiar with the planning. Enacted in April of 2018, [Read More…]

hartfordphoto/iStock (NEW YORK) — Letitia James, the attorney general of New York whose sexual harassment investigation led to the resignation of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, announced a run for governor Friday, mounting a formidable primary challenge [Read More…]

Douglas Rissing/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Friday said it would make another attempt to end the “Remain in Mexico” protocols, a Trump administration initiative that forced tens of thousands of asylum seekers back into [Read More…]

rarrarorro/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans serving on the House Jan. 6 select committee, and one of the most vocal critics of the GOP’s embrace of former President Donald Trump and the [Read More…]

uSchools/iStock (WASHINGTON) — A popular plan to let the government directly negotiate lower prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies — extracting significant savings for taxpayers and patients — will likely not be part of the [Read More…]

rarrarorro/iStock (WASHINGTON) — House Democratic leaders are pulling the plug on infrastructure this week. The plan to vote on the $1 trillion infrastructure bill Thursday is now officially canceled, according to sources familiar with the [Read More…]

Bennett Raglin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been charged with a misdemeanor sex crime in Albany City Court, according to a spokesman for the New York State Court System. [Read More…]

Getty Images/Tasos Katopodis (WASHINGTON) — A Senate hearing grew heated on Wednesday as Republicans repeatedly demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland retract and apologize for a memo he issued earlier this month aimed at addressing a rise [Read More…]

Getty Images/Drew Angerer (WASHINGTON) — Democrats on Wednesday scrambled to close the deal on President Joe Biden’s landmark social spending legislation, focusing on new ways to pay for the package, including a billionaires’ tax the White [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (ARLINGTON, Va.) — Headlining a rally Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden was the latest national Democrat to campaign in Virginia for gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe, joining a long [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — “I don’t know where in the hell I belong,” Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, said Tuesday when when asked about possibly switching parties amid his stubborn bargaining with [Read More…]

OlegAlbinksy/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Three of President Joe Biden’s major nominees were confirmed to ambassadorships by the Senate on Tuesday. Former Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who left office in 2019, was confirmed as ambassador [Read More…]

VallarieE/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Border Patrol agents at the center of a controversy stemming from their use of horses to block Haitian migrants from entering the U.S. have not yet been questioned more than [Read More…]