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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took aim at Sesame Street’s “Elmo” after the popular children’s show puppet promoted COVID-19 vaccines for children on Twitter. A minute-long clip posted on the [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the wake of the apparent worst human smuggling tragedy in U.S. history, and amid migrants crossing the border at record levels, frustration among border patrol agents and other law [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When word came that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was retiring, the spotlight immediately shifted to who might replace him with most attention focused on Ketanji Brown Jackson, who clerked for [Read More…]

Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to fight climate change. The case involved how far the federal government could [Read More…]

Robert Alexander/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Biden administration can end a Trump-era immigration policy known as “Remain in Mexico” that had forced thousands of asylum seekers to wait south [Read More…]

Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and said he would support carving out an exception to the Senate filibuster [Read More…]

Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When Justice Stephen Breyer retires from the U.S. Supreme Court at noon on Thursday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, his former law clerk, will mark a milestone in American representation when [Read More…]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Liz Cheney told This Week co-anchor Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview that she has full faith and confidence in the testimony of Cassidy [Read More…]

Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s former White House counsel Pat Cipollone was subpoenaed Wednesday for a deposition by the House’s Jan. 6 committee. “The Select Committee’s investigation has revealed evidence that Mr. [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images, FILE (ALBANY, N.Y.) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday detailed what is in gun safety legislation she will propose during a special state legislative session scheduled for Thursday.Hochul is set [Read More…]

Jon Hicks/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee Tuesday added a new layer of political consequences for Donald Trump after she detailed a [Read More…]

Saul Loeb – Pool/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the most senior member of the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal wing, said he will officially step down from the bench at noon [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement for then-President Donald Trump to release during the Jan. 6 attack on the [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s surprise hearing on Tuesday featured highly-anticipated and explosive testimony from someone who was inside the White House both as the Capitol attack unfolded and in [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack heard stunning stunning testimony on Tuesday from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. [Read More…]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will convene Tuesday afternoon for a surprise public hearing, signaling apparent urgency among [Read More…]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who was a top adviser to former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, is expected to testify Tuesday before the [Read More…]

Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Authorities on Wednesday seized the cell phone of John Eastman, the former attorney for Donald Trump at the center of the House committee’s investigation into [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a much-anticipated ruling Friday in one of its biggest decisions this term. The court voted 5-4, largely along [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Noncitizens cannot vote in municipal elections, a Staten Island judge ruled Monday, invalidating a recently enacted New York City law that made more than 800,000 adults eligible to vote [Read More…]