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Over the past 10 days, two things happened that make clear that a) Trumpism isn’t going anywhere and b) it’s going to complicate…

Will JRB take his place alongside FDR and LBJ? President Joseph Robinette Biden just unveiled the latest move in his quest to transform the US…

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced his massive infrastructure plan — his latest effort to expand government influence over our…

Michigan is emerging as the latest battleground in Republicans’ nationwide push to restrict voting rights, with GOP officials planning to…

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden will unveil an infrastructure bill during a visit to Pittsburgh. Estimates place the bill’s total cost…

Kentucky’s Republican-led General Assembly this week passed bipartisan voting reform legislation setting rules for absentee and early voting…

The Ever Given is finally free from the Suez Canal! Now comes the next tricky part: untangling the shipping gridlock it leaves in its wake.…

In the wake of two (more) high-profile mass shootings, we’re (again) talking about guns — and whether Congress will do anything to…

Georgia has a long history of attracting national sports events, but a controversial new voting law might have severe repercussions for that…

It has been more than two months since Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States, a historic moment for the country, as…

It’s not often that a freshman member of Congress — in office barely two months — gets a shout out from the House Speaker during a…

President Joe Biden and other Democrats could tackle both voting rights and infrastructure legislation at the same time, Democratic Sen. Raphael…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested the Biden administration would not take punitive action against China for its handling of the Covid-19…

The former chief of staff to ex-President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed back against his former boss’ recent attempt to whitewash the history…

Georgia’s voter restrictions were dashed into law Thursday by Republicans shaken over recent election losses and lies about fraud from former…

An attorney for Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon vowed that the Democrat will contest the charges she faces after being arrested Thursday for knocking…

President Joe Biden on Friday called a sweeping elections bill signed into law in Georgia “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” and “an…

This is how lies turn into laws that make it harder for people to vote. The same week that a major backer of former President Donald Trump’s…

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign of lies about a stolen election just delivered a huge victory with a new Georgia law that could…

Republicans in Georgia sped a sweeping elections bill into law Thursday, making it the first presidential battleground to impose new voting…

At least five people have died as a wave of tornadoes ripped through the southern US yesterday. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed…

Two separate groups of lawmakers are traveling to Texas on Friday to spotlight the surge of unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border in…

Joe Biden offered his most expansive explanation yet of his own presidency on Thursday, presenting himself, at least for now, as a problem solver…

Watching President Joe Biden’s first press conference today, all I could think was that his performance showed there’s little chance he…

President Joe Biden held the first formal news conference of his presidency on Thursday, taking questions in the East Room of the White House on…

Anyone hoping President Joe Biden’s first formal news conference Thursday would produce a series of gaffes and misstatements must be deeply…

President Joe Biden warned that there would be “responses” if North Korea continues to fire ballistic missiles following the hermit…

The push by liberal Democrats to enact President Joe Biden’s sweeping agenda is running into problems beyond just Sen. Joe Manchin: A handful…

President Joe Biden opened his first presidential news conference Thursday with a new promise to get 200 million Covid vaccine shots in American arms…

President Joe Biden said Thursday during the first formal news conference of his presidency that he agreed with former President Barack Obama that…

Convening his first formal news conference Thursday, President Joe Biden stepped into a swirl of issues that have bubbled up at the two-month mark of…

President Joe Biden on Thursday slammed a slew of Republican efforts to suppress the vote as “un-American” as Georgia’s state House…

President Joe Biden spent much of his first presidential news conference on Thursday facing questions about the crisis on the southern border,…

National Republican groups are working to drive the state-by-state GOP efforts to limit voting — offering guidance to the state lawmakers…

The Olympic torch relay has begun, and the flame is on its way to Tokyo for the July start of the Summer Games. Here’s what you need to know to…

President Joe Biden’s first two months in power went remarkably smoothly considering he took office amid a once-in-a-century pandemic, a…

It’s not that President Joe Biden keeps quiet, exactly. But after four years of former President Donald Trump’s constant tweeting and…

A group of White House officials and members of Congress toured a facility holding unaccompanied migrant children in Texas on Wednesday in the…

A group of White House officials and members of Congress toured a facility holding unaccompanied migrant children in Texas on Wednesday in the…

As the Senate held its first hearing on a sweeping election and voting rights package, the chamber’s leaders on Wednesday used the opportunity…

Sidney Powell, the former Trump lawyer who famously threatened to “release the Kraken” in her quest to overturn the results of the 2020…

Joe Biden’s call for an assault weapons ban and a wave of other gun control measures adds a daunting new policy challenge to a progressive…

Americans have been saying for a year they want to get back to normal. Tragically, they’re getting their wish. With the gradual return to…

The Pentagon said Tuesday it has received a request from the Department of Health and Human Services to temporarily house unaccompanied migrant…

President Joe Biden, facing his first major decision about American troops abroad, has found himself weighing competing instincts: to wind down the…

Right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell is claiming in a new court filing that reasonable people wouldn’t have believed as fact her assertions of fraud…

Donald Trump has set the price of admission for Republicans in the midterm elections, and probably the next presidential race: an embrace of the big…

Officials in President Joe Biden’s administration are not confident that Johnson & Johnson will meet its self-imposed deadline to deliver…

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a lower court opinion that wiped away the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers…