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The White House says President Joe Biden warned Ukraine’s president on Thursday that there is a “distinct possibility” Russia could take military action against Ukraine in February

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is pledging to tackle a rising U.S. epidemic of car fatalities

Senate Democrats are expected to move quickly to fill the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. A look at the confirmation process and what we know, and don’t know, about what’s to come.

New York’s attorney general wants to put a stop to former President Donald Trump’s attempted end-run around a yearslong civil investigation into his business practices, asking a judge Wednesday to dismiss his lawsuit aimed at halting the probe.

A federal magistrate has ordered the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group to remain behind bars until he goes on trial for sedition.

Medicare says it’s shining a light on key markers for nursing home quality.

President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges for an expected vacancy on the Supreme Court, and each of them would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court

A California city has voted to require gun owners to carry liability insurance in what’s believed to be the first measure of its kind in the United States.

President Joe Biden’s effort to rally support ahead of a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest big test of his ability to bridge ideological gaps and balance competing interests to build effective coalitions

Biden’s remarks reflect a growing consensus among NATO allies that any conflict in Ukraine is unlikely to be confined to a small area or a short window of time.

Workplace safety regulator OSHA said it is pulling the vaccine and testing rules for businesses effective Wednesday.

A White House spokesman cautioned that the process is early and said no decisions had been made for any of the three open spots on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

A key part of President Joe Biden’s plans to fight major ransomware attacks and digital espionage campaigns has been languishing for more than eight months

With more political, economic, and military clout, China appears to worry less about global scrutiny than it did 13 1/2 years ago.

President Joe Biden was caught on camera Monday cursing about Fox News reporter Peter Doocy. “What a stupid son of a b-,” Biden said as reporters including Doocy were being ushered out of a room after the president made remarks about inflation. Biden spoke quietly, but the insult was caught on his microphone, which was still on. The exchange ...

The Supreme Court will consider reining in federal regulation of private property under the nation’s main anti-water pollution law, the Clean Water Act

In some of the calls, the 60-year-old warned of “all-out war” and a “civilian army,” according to a plea agreement

The picture could come into greater clarity this week when New York’s redistricting commission submits to the state legislature a second attempt to draw a map.

The State Department is ordering the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country and allowing non-essential staff to leave Ukraine

President Joe Biden often cites the critical role that South Carolina played when he won the Democratic nomination in 2020.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot has spoken to former Attorney General William Barr, committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. said Sunday.

Large majorities say the U.S. is going in the wrong direction, that they are falling behind economically and that political polarization will continue.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has rejected a British claim that Russia is seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate

On a warm spring day in Ukraine 26 years ago, three men smiled for cameras as they planted symbolic sunflower seedlings in freshly tilled earth where Soviet nuclear missiles had once stood ready.

The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and said former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate.

Leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party have voted to censure Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

State-by-state battles over the future of abortion are setting up around the U.S. Republican lawmakers are proposing new restrictions based on laws in Texas and Mississippi and some Democratic-led states are working to preserve access

With tens of thousands of Russian troops positioned near Ukraine, the Kremlin has kept the U.S. and its allies guessing about its next moves in the worst security crisis to emerge between Moscow and the West since the Cold War.

Democrats know they may lose control of Congress in November’s midterm elections.

The Biden administration has announced policy changes to attract international students specializing in science, technology, engineering and math

The group plans to meet virtually during next week’s recess to find a path forward on issues from clarifying the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to protecting election officials from threats and intimidation.

California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent under a proposal introduced Friday by a state senator who said youngsters “deserve the right to protect themselves” against infectious disease.

With 100,000 Russian troops amassed near the Ukrainian border, many fear Moscow is preparing to invade.

The pandemic has not dampened the optimism of a resurgent anti-abortion movement that sees a new Texas law banning most abortions as a sign of things to come.

President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have used their first formal meeting to discuss concerns about China’s growing military assertiveness

President Joe Biden is launching into his second year in office with a new focus on making fatigued Americans believe they’re better off under his leadership as he embraces a pared-back agenda before the midterm elections

U.S. President Joe Biden says any Russian troop movements across Ukraine’s border would constitute an invasion, saying Moscow would “pay a heavy price” for such an action

The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible attempts to interfere in the 2020 general election by former President Donald Trump and others has asked for a special grand jury to aid the investigation

FBI agents have conducted a search near U_S_ Rep_ Henry Cuellar’s home in Texas as they conducted what an FBI spokeswoman called “court-authorized law enforcement activity.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James is using a court filing to outline much of the evidence her investigators have gathered so far in her investigation of former President Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden says he thinks Russia will invade Ukraine and is warning President Vladimir Putin that his country would pay a “dear price” in lives lost and a possible cutoff from the global banking system if it does

The sweeping elections bill now in the Senate deals with much more than voting changes

Nearly 4 million children could fall into poverty this month following the end of monthly child tax credit payments in December, according to a new study. 

West Virginia lawmakers introduced a bill to ban abortion after 15 weeks — a proposal nearly identical to the Mississippi law under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Florida lawmaker wants to make it a legal requirement for “The Star-Spangled Banner” to be heard before every professional sports game played in the state

The Biden administration will make 400 million N95 masks from the Strategic National Stockpile available for free to Americans starting next week

President Joe Biden acknowledges that the pandemic has exhausted and demoralized many Americans in his first year in office

With traffic fatalities spiking, the nation’s top safety investigator says a widely cited government statistic that 94% of serious crashes are solely due to driver error is misleading and the Transportation Department should stop using it

A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past received its first approval

A federal appeals court has dealt opponents of Texas’ strict abortion law another defeat.

Voting legislation that is a cornerstone of the Democratic agenda and a top priority for civil rights leaders is on track for defeat

For the most part, Jill Biden isn’t caught up in the capital’s frenzy, giving her the chance instead to serve as something of an ambassador.

President Joe Biden came to office seeing two sicknesses in his country. Neither has abated a year later.

Several hundred migrants who had departed from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula in hopes of reaching the United States entered Guatemalan territory where they were intercepted by authorities who began talks on returning them to their homelands.

Microsoft says dozens of computer systems at an unspecified number of Ukrainian government agencies have been infected with destructive malware disguised as ransomware

Just over a year ago, millions of energized young people, women, voters of color and independents joined forces to send Joe Biden to the White House.

The seditious conspiracy case against members and associates of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group marks the boldest attempt so far by the government to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol.

The U.S. Census Bureau has begun accepting challenges from states, cities and tribal nations that want to contest the results of the 2020 census

Glenn Youngkin was inaugurated as Virginia’s governor and promised to change policies on COVID-19, education, taxes, the economy and criminal justice.

Former President Donald Trump is stepping up his election-year effort to dominate the Republican Party with a Saturday rally in Arizona.

The meeting came as the committee ramps up its probe, issuing more subpoenas and requesting several GOP lawmakers voluntarily testify.

The failure of last week’s high-stakes diplomatic meetings to resolve escalating tensions over Ukraine has put Russia, the United States and its European allies in uncharted post-Cold War territory

The impact of a sweeping new voting law that Republicans pushed through last year over Democrats’ protests is drawing fire again.

Despite Biden’s pleas, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema aren’t budging on the filibuster, leaving no viable path for the two major election overhaul bills.

A South Dakota legislative committee has approved a bill championed by Gov. Kristi Noem to ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports leagues that match their gender identity.

The Transportation Department is launching a $27 billion program to repair and upgrade U.S. bridges

For the first time in half a year, families on Friday are going without a monthly deposit from the child tax credit.

President Joe Biden is planning to sign executive actions on police reform as early as this month, three people familiar with the plans said, as his administration seeks to unilaterally jumpstart an issue that’s a top priority for a key constituency.

A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore’s top prosecutor on charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications in the purchase of two Florida vacation homes.

North Korea has fired what appears to be two short-range ballistic missiles in its third weapons launch this month in an apparent reprisal for fresh sanctions imposed by the Biden administration

Sedition, conspiracy. Those words are now being used in Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection criminal cases. But what do the terms mean, anyway?

Four inmates at a northwest Arkansas jail have filed a lawsuit after they said they were unknowingly prescribed an anti-parasitic drug to treat their COVID-19.

Trump withdrew from a debate hosted by the nonprofit commission in Oct. 2020 after organizers made it virtual following his Covid diagnosis.

Navient, a major student loan servicing company, has settled allegations of abusive lending practices for $1.85 billion

The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the government will double to 1 billion the rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to be distributed free to Americans, along with the most protective N95 masks, as he highlighted his efforts to “surge” resources to help the country weather the spike in coronavirus cases.

The vice president revealed she is “absolutely” making phone calls to ensure the legislation is passed.

Conventional wisdom and past research has held that abortion is a far more motivating issue for Republicans than Democrats. That may be changing.

President Joe Biden is all but conceding defeat for this year on the Democrats’ big elections and voting rights legislation

Former Sen. Harry Reid will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol as colleagues and friends pay tribute to a hardscrabble Democrat who served five terms in the Senate.

The Biden administration is increasing federal support for COVID-19 testing for schools in a bid to keep them open amid the omicron surge

Democrats are speaking out more forcefully against COVID-19 school closures, recognizing a rising anger among parents worried that their kids are falling behind.

Most abortions would be banned in Florida after 15 weeks of pregnancy under bills filed by Republicans on the first day of the state’s legislative session.

Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred with Republican senators during a hearing Tuesday. The top infectious disease expert accused one of making false accusations that stoke “the crazies” who threaten his life and was heard calling another a “moron.”

The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism

President Joe Biden is challenging senators to “stand against voter suppression,” urging them to change Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation that Republicans are blocking from debate and votes

Stalled negotiations for the U.S. government to pay families separated at the border during Donald Trump’s presidency have brought new threats of extortion against some families.

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of former President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress, has rejected a request for an interview by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection

In arguments Friday, the high court’s six conservative justices appeared skeptical of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers.

It was a sobering scene for millions of Americans, shocked at the behavior of their fellow citizens. But were those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a fanatical fringe of American society?

Among the more than 700 people facing federal charges in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, 19 are from Illinois. Here’s a look at each individual from Illinois who has been charged.