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Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Several Republicans who were nominated as firebrands in purple states are now eyeing post-primary messaging pivots in a policy acrobatics routine that could determine the outcome of marquee races. Politicians [Read More…]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Thursday is expected to file a heavily redacted version of the affidavit used to support a search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this [Read More…]

DHS Photo by Benjamin Applebaum (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security took steps on Wednesday to codify the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into regulatory policy — even as a court case [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, FILE (DES MOINES, Iowa) — As the final speaker at the Iowa State Fair’s Des Moines Register Soapbox — a mainstay for presidential hopefuls and statewide candidates — [Read More…]

Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Most of the Florida school board candidates backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis won their elections on Tuesday — an indication that the ascendant Republican’s [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Kim Cheatle to lead the United States Secret Service, the White House announced. “Kim has had a long and distinguished career at the [Read More…]

OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration is forgiving some student loan debt for U.S. borrowers and extending the federal student loan repayment pause until Dec. 31, [Read More…]

Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Under order from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Justice Department on Wednesday released a 2019 memo used by former Attorney General William Barr to justify his decision [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge is expected to rule Wednesday on the Biden administration’s lawsuit against a near-total ban on abortions in Idaho. The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state over [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday in a “rebound” case, her office said. The first lady — who first tested positive on Aug. 16 — received her [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of another deadline on the restart of payments for America’s $1.7 trillion in federal student loans, President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a plan to [Read More…]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After officials in Nye County, Nevada, accepted a pitch from a Republican nominee for secretary of state to stop using voting machines for the general election and move to [Read More…]

Nate Smallwood/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pennsylvania Senate race took a heated — and personal — turn on Tuesday as an aide to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee and former cardiothoracic surgeon who for [Read More…]

adamkaz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Democrats are projected to win a special House election in New York on Tuesday in a race seen as a potential bellwether for this year’s midterms, ABC News reports. The [Read More…]

Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress (NEW YORK) — Come January, 25-year-old Maxwell Frost will likely be the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. Frost is projected to win Florida’s 10th Congressional District Democratic [Read More…]

Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday responded to Republican vows to investigate him after he steps down from his government roles in December, saying he would consider testifying but not submit [Read More…]

Octavio Jones/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Charlie Crist on Tuesday defeated Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried in Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, ABC News projects, setting up a high-profile matchup against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in the [Read More…]

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Internal Revenue Service said it is conducting a comprehensive review of its security systems amid recent threats against IRS employees. Some of the [Read More…]

Rochlin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump allegedly had more than 700 pages of classified material in his possession, according to a May 10 letter from the National Archives to a lawyer representing Trump. [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have again publicly split — this time over the GOP’s chances of retaking Congress in November given what McConnell suggested [Read More…]