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Al Drago/Getty Images (TUCSON, Ariz.) — Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Tucson, Arizona, for a campaign event on Friday — three days after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a near-total ban on abortion [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Annelle Sheline publicly resigned in March from her position with the U.S. State Department over the Biden administration’s Israel policy. Sheline, who holds a Ph.D., worked for one year as a [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A bill to reauthorize a spy program considered critical to U.S. national security is in limbo on Capitol Hill. An attempt on Wednesday to move ahead [Read More…]

Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will name LaWanda Toney as deputy chief of staff for strategic communications, as the secretary’s team looks to tackle college affordability with enrollment deadlines [Read More…]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign says it has ended its contract with a consultant who was seen on video encouraging people to vote for him in order to [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday addressed a joint meeting of Congress, where he praised U.S. leadership on the world stage as “indispensable.” Kishida is in Washington this week [Read More…]

A man walks past tents and shacks erected by destroyed buildings in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 9, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Even as U.S. officials applaud Israel’s initial steps [Read More…]

Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Thursday announced they are closing what is often known as the “gun show loophole,” by tightening up the definition of what it means to [Read More…]

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifying during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the “Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment” in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Mar. 11, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via [Read More…]

Lynne Gilbert/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Arizona Republicans on Wednesday blocked efforts to move forward on a bill to repeal a near-total abortion ban in the state that dates to 1864, which the Arizona Supreme Court [Read More…]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A key procedural vote on a bill to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed on the House floor on Wednesday, another sign of Republican infighting under [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — There are multiple Jeremy Rosenbergs in New York City, as former President Donald Trump’s attorneys found out Tuesday after they sent a subpoena to the wrong one. Last month, [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked a New York appellate court for an interim stay to his upcoming criminal hush money trial in New York — a tactic [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday defended his leadership strategy ahead of a meeting with fellow Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, who has threatened to remove Johnson from his post. [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is trying again on Wednesday to fight his upcoming criminal hush money trial in New York, asking an appeals court to intervene. The Appellate Division [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in former President Donald Trump’s [Read More…]

Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West speaks to the community and congregation at Second Baptist Church in Santa Ana, Mar. 29, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/Orange County Register via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Independent presidential candidate Cornel West [Read More…]

U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, R-Ariz., takes questions at a news conference, Feb. 29, 2024, in Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The Arizona Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to uphold a near-total abortion ban [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Tuesday defended his meeting with former President Donald Trump, describing engagements between foreign envoys and political opposition leaders or major opposition candidates [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Foreign adversaries and terrorist groups are sharpening their aim at the United States — targeting cyber operations, security and “mafia-like” tactics in an “increasingly concerning” way, FBI Director Christopher Wray [Read More…]