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James Devaney/GC Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday responded to the Justice Department in the dispute over Trump’s request for a “special master” to review materials the FBI seized [Read More…]

Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — After three weeks of accusations from former President Donald Trump and his allies that the Justice Department and FBI overreached in their unprecedented August 8 search of [Read More…]

ilbusca/Getty Images (LANSING, Mich.) — The Michigan Board of Canvassers is deadlocked on a bid to add an abortion question on enshrining abortion rights in the state’s constitution to the November ballot. Sponsors of the [Read More…]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As states continue to regulate abortion rights across the country, abortion rights groups and state legislatures in Indiana and South Carolina are at odds amid fallout from the U.S. Supreme [Read More…]

Nate Smallwood/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman recently attended a fundraiser in the Hamptons, a previously unreported appearance as he recovers from a stroke and ramps up to face Republican [Read More…]

jayk7/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As some federal student loan borrowers across the country prepare to see their loans wiped out following President Joe Biden’s debt cancellation plan, some borrowers may be wondering if the effort [Read More…]

adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In Colorado, supporters of Donald Trump seeking evidence of 2020 election fraud have flooded some county offices with so many records requests that officials say they have been unable to perform [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the primaries nearly all finished, it will soon be time for the general election debates — except there may not be all that many debates to tune into. Across [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — First lady Jill Biden has recovered from a “rebound” case of COVID-19 and will return to Washington nearly a week after again testing positive for the virus, her office said. Biden, [Read More…]

Bloomberg via Getty Images/FILE (WASHINGTON) — With COVID-19 funding drying up and no fresh cash infusion from Congress, the Biden administration says it will suspend its offer of free at-home rapid tests through COVID.gov. The [Read More…]

Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — One year after a deadly U.S. drone strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians, including seven children, 133 family members and co-workers of the Afghan aid worker mistakenly [Read More…]

PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — After drone sightings and even reports of a man flying in a jetpack around Los Angeles International Airport, the federal government is rolling out new tech [Read More…]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Monday said its team tasked with identifying potential attorney-client privileged materials that were seized in the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday pushed back on Republicans who called President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan unfair — with Sanders arguing the GOP turned a blind eye to [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., conceded on Sunday that former President Donald Trump should have returned the sensitive and classified documents that the government says he took home with him after leaving [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (BETHESDA, Md.) — A State Department employee was killed this week while riding her bike in Maryland. The Montgomery County Police Department confirmed Sarah Joan Langenkamp, 42, was struck by a flatbed truck [Read More…]

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Friday made public the redacted affidavit that supported the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. After [Read More…]

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Americans who qualify for the student loan relief President Joe Biden announced Wednesday can apply starting in early October, the White House said Friday. Relief will come four [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s plans to cancel student loans will particularly impact Black Americans, who carry much of the burden of student loan debt. “The burden is especially heavy on Black [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday will host a fundraiser with Senate candidates in key battleground states a week after appearing to criticize the “quality” — of some GOP [Read More…]