Politics

As Republicans roll back access to the ballot, Democrats in certain states have been quietly moving to expand voting rights.

Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney is criticizing GOP colleagues for downplaying the Jan. 6 riot and condoning former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen.

President Joe Biden faced fierce blowback from fellow Democrats and refugee advocates for considering keeping his predecessor’s record-low cap of 15,000 for admitting refugees this budget year.

The Republican now leading the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run

Growing numbers of migrant families are making the heart-wrenching decision to separate as they try to get their children into America

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the nation is “over the hump” on gas shortages following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline.

President Joe Biden has met with six young immigrants who benefited from an Obama-era policy that protected those brought to the U.S. illegally as children

President Joe Biden has put the kibosh on his predecessor’s planned “National Garden of American Heroes.”

Demonstrating their allegiance to Donald Trump, Republicans have elected Rep. Elise Stefanik to a House leadership post

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s decision to scream at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber is behavior that may need to be investigated by the House Ethics Committee.

U.S. restaurants and stores are rapidly raising pay in an urgent effort to attract more applicants and keep up with a flood of customers as the pandemic eases.

The Supreme Court is considering whether to hear the case of a Black man who says he suffered discrimination because the racial slur was carved into the wall of a hospital elevator where he worked.

Rep. Liz Cheney reflected on her place within the Republican Party shortly after Wednesday’s vote by House Republicans to remove the Wyoming congresswoman from her position as House Republican Conference Chair, the party’s third-ranking position in the House.

The Department of Homeland Security issued a temporary waiver early Thursday morning to allow more fuel to flow within the United States after a cybersecurity attack on the Colonial Pipeline prompted fuel-hoarding and panic-buying in parts of the Southeastern U.S.

Israel says it is massing troops along the Gaza frontier and calling up 9,000 reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory

The action comes as Colonial Pipeline continues to grapple with a crippling ransomware attack.

The U.S. budget deficit surged to a record of $1.9 trillion for the first seven months of this budget year

COVID-19 deaths in the United States have tumbled to an average of about 600 per day, the lowest level in 10 months

Republicans sought to shift the narrative on the violent Jan. 6 insurrection during a congressional hearing Wednesday, with some painting the Trump supporters who stormed the building as patriots who have been unfairly harassed, as Democrats clashed with the former Pentagon chief while drilling into the government’s unprepared response....

House Republicans ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the chamber’s No. 3 GOP leader on Wednesday, punishing her after she repeatedly rebuked former President Donald Trump for his false claims of election fraud and his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Under Kremlin orders, the U.S. Embassy has stopped employing Russians, forcing the embassy to cut its consular staff by 75% and limit many of its usual services

The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults are coming without families

Israel is pressing ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip

Americans can begin applying for $50 off their internet bill on Wednesday as part of an emergency government program to keep people connected during the pandemic.

A group of more than 100 influential Republicans plans to release a call for reforms within the GOP alongside a threat to form a new party if change isn’t forthcoming, according to a person familiar with the effort.

Rep. Liz Cheney is lashing out at leaders of her own Republican Party.

President Joe Biden is meeting virtually with a bipartisan group of governors to share best practices for encouraging Americans to get vaccinated as the pace of shots nationally declines

Five young undocumented migrants, including a 2-year-old and an infant, were by themselves when they were apprehended in South Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Monday. The oldest of the migrants, all of whom were girls from Honduras and Guatemala, was 7, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. None needed medical attenti...

Republicans in the Senate are making an expansive case against sweeping voting and election legislation from Democrats

The Treasury Department is launching its $350 billion program to distribute aid to state and local governments

Advocates say that the Biden administration is moving far too slowly to protect tens of thousands of Afghans whose lives are in mortal danger because of their association with the U.S.

President Joe Biden is entering the next phase of his administration with the steady approval of a majority of Americans

The Biden administration says the government will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care

A new White House task force is looking back at instances when politics interfered with science and trying to come up with ways to prevent that from happening again.

The Senate is headed for a showdown over Democrats’ sweeping voting rights and election overhaul bill as a key committee plans to mark up the legislation Tuesday, NBC News reports.

Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy has publicly endorsed Rep. Elise Stefanik for the post of No. 3 leader.

The cyberextortion attempt that forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity.

A court ruling striking down a national eviction moratorium has placed additional pressure on the federal and state governments to deliver tens of billions of dollars in promised rental aid

Some states are making plans to spend billions of dollars from President Joe Biden’s pandemic relief act, though the money has yet to arrive.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego share Roman Catholicism as a faith and California as their home base

Donald Trump’s discredited allegations about a stolen election did nothing to save his presidency months ago

Former President Barack Obama’s dog, Bo, has died after a battle with cancer

Lurking beneath Facebook’s decision on whether to continue Donald Trump’s suspension from its platform is a far more complex and consequential question: Do the protections carved out for companies when the internet was in its infancy 25 years ago make sense when some of them have become global powerhouses with almost unlimited reach

Legislation that would create new protections for LGBTQ Americans is stalling out in the U.S. Senate

NASA’s new administrator is big on tackling climate and diversifying the agency’s workforce, but hedging on whether the U.S. can put astronauts on the moon by 2024.

There’s a new buzzword among Republicans in Washington this week: unity

Federal prosecutors say a Dallas man has been arrested on a charge of smuggling migrants after more than three dozen people were found in and around a big rig that was stopped near San Antonio

The Justice Department on Friday released a proposed rule that would broaden the definition of a firearm, requiring some gun-making kits to include a serial number

The Biden administration is allocating $21.6 billion to provide emergency rental assistance to help prevent evictions of people who lost jobs during the pandemic

A Capitol riot suspect was persuaded to storm the building on Jan. 6 after spending hours watching Fox News and listening to former President Donald Trump’s election fraud lies, his lawyer said

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Thursday she will not seek a second term, an election-year surprise that marks a sharp turnabout for the city’s second Black woman executive who months ago was among those President Joe Biden considered for his running mate.

In a story May 6, 2021, about an event hosted by the United Service Organization, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the group was established by President Theodore Roosevelt

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the director of the task force to reunite families said on Thursday that the Biden administration is working to reunite entire families who experienced separation under the Trump administration, meaning that not just parents but also siblings of separated children may be able to get permanent legal...

Texas Republican lawmakers advanced a sweeping elections bill early Friday following hours of discussion that would put America’s biggest red state closer to imposing a raft of new voting restrictions in the face of growing warning from corporations.

Every Republican in Congress voted against the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which President Joe Biden signed into law three months ago

British Royal Navy vessels and French police boats were patrolling near the English Channel island of Jersey as French fishermen angry about losing access to its waters gathered for a maritime protest

With a badly aging bridge as his backdrop, President Joe Biden stood in reliably Republican Louisiana on Thursday to pressure GOP lawmakers to support his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan

President Joe Biden has met his goal of having most elementary and middle schools open for full, in-person learning in his first 100 days in office

The U.S. Department of Justice says it is concerned about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate’s unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County.

No. 3 House Republican Liz Cheney is clinging to her post as party leaders are lining up behind an heir apparent for her job

President Joe Biden has made a Cinco de Mayo taco and enchilada run to highlight his administration’s $28.6 billion program to help eateries that lost business because of the coronavirus pandemic

Former President Donald Trump won’t return to Facebook — at least not yet

A federal judge has ordered the release of a legal memorandum the Trump-era Justice Department prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr before he announced his conclusion that President Donald Trump had not obstructed justice during the Russia investigation

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday pressed Congress for increased funding on a variety of Justice Department priorities, including combating domestic terrorism, protecting civil rights, prosecuting hate crimes and battling the opioid epidemic. Testifying for the first time as attorney general before a House Appropriations su...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday set a new vaccination goal to deliver at least one shot to 70% of adult Americans by July Fourth as he tackles the vexing problem of winning over the “doubters” and those unmotivated to get inoculated.

Five people have been charged after 97 migrants were found in a Houston house Friday in what authorities think is a smuggling operation, federal prosecutors said Monday.

As part of his American Families Plan, Biden is proposing to nearly double the top tax rate on capital gains and eliminate the “step-up in basis.”

President Joe Biden is formally raising the nation’s cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year

President Joe Biden traveled to coastal Virginia to promote his plans to increase spending on education and children, part of his $1.8 trillion families proposal announced last week

The nation’s top general says he is now open to considering a proposal to take decisions on sexual assault prosecution out of the hands of military commanders

Former President Donald Trump will find out this week whether he gets to return to Facebook

The Biden administration says four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency will be reunited in the United States this week.

As a catastrophic surge of the coronavirus sweeps through India, the leaders of 13 opposition parties are urging the government to launch a free vaccination drive and ensure an uninterrupted flow of oxygen to all hospitals

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was greeted by a barrage of insults and boos Saturday from a crowd of more than 2,100 delegates at the state Republican convention. Despite the boos, Utah Republicans rejected a motion to censure Romney over his votes to impeach former President Donald Trump, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. “I’m a man who says what he mea...

North Korea has warned the United States will face a “very grave situation” and alleged that President Joe Biden made a “big blunder” in his recent speech by calling the North a security threat

Kamala Harris will become the first vice president to be memorialized in New York’s famous Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, which will unveil her likeness and that of President Joe Biden later this year. Both Biden and Harris’s wax figures will be displayed in the museum’s “Oval Office experience.” A team of studio artists ...

The question of whether to serve a search warrant for Rudy Giuliani’s records had simmered inside the Justice Department last year

Before Matt Gaetz rose to national prominence as an ardent backer of Donald Trump, the now-Florida congressman carved out an unusual reputation as a Republican state lawmaker who wanted to liberalize marijuana laws

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has granted a pardon of innocence to a man who had been imprisoned for two decades before his two murder convictions were vacated more than four years ago by a judge

Newsmax has apologized to an employee of Dominion Voting Systems for airing false allegations that he manipulating voting machines or tallies on Election Day to the detriment of former President Donald Trump

Six American oil executives jailed in Venezuela more than three years ago on corruption charges have been granted house arrest in a gesture of goodwill toward the Biden administration as it reviews its policy toward the politically turbulent South American country

A long-shot bid to pass legislation that would make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state is stalling in the Senate.

In his first major speech as Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin called for developing a “new vision” for American defense in the face of emerging cyber and space threats and the prospect of fighting bigger wars

Disneyland has reopened in Southern California

Authorities investigating a reported kidnapping Friday came upon an alleged human smugglers’ house holding more than 90 migrants, some with COVID-19 symptoms, Houston police said. Investigators worked overnight to track down the location in southwest Houston after receiving a call about a potential kidnapping late Thursday, said Assistant Chi...

The Biden administration announced Friday that it would cancel all construction on the border wall that was paid for using redirected military funds, a Defense Department spokesman said. The Trump administration increased its use of Defense dollars to build portions of the border wall after Congress refused to appropriate money toward the...

President Joe Biden didn’t want to be anywhere else Friday than helping his Amtrak family celebrate 50 years on the rails

President Joe Biden has responded to comments made by Republican Sen. Tim Scott by saying he doesn’t think America is racist, but there is still work to be done to address racial issues.

The U.S. Census says more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens of the voting age population cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election

The Senate has confirmed Bill Nelson, a former Florida senator who once flew on the space shuttle, to be the next NASA administrator.

President Joe Biden laid out a long list of policy priorities in his speech to Congress, and some are more politically plausible than others.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby has previously said that Defense Department leadership will continue to assess security threats in Afghanistan against troops.

President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan would raise taxes on the top 1%. It would increase the levy on their capital gains and ordinary income.