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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.

To be sure, cases are rising in the majority of states with 23 reporting record-high infection levels as of Sunday.

A federal lawsuit filed last month seeking monetary damages from two far-right groups linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was designed with an ambitious goal in mind: to impinge on their financial earnings.

A deluge of applications has forced some states to shut their federal rental assistance programs earlier than expected.

The Smithsonian National Zoo’s pandas, sloth bears and elephants were among the animals having a field day frolicking in the snow.

Airlines have canceled more than 20,000 U.S. flights since Christmas Eve.

President Joe Biden arrived in Washington, D.C., in the middle of a snowstorm that’s expected to bring 10 inches of snow to the area.

Prosecutors say a North Carolina man awaiting trial on charges he assaulted two police officers during the Capitol riot had an assault rifle and ammunition in his vehicle when he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving earlier this month

A passenger on a Delta flight from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles recorded the moment that a man was removed from the airplane in handcuffs after allegedly assaulting a flight attendant and air marshal.

The Department of Justice has released new video from the U.S. Capitol showing protesters attacking police as they tried to secure two doors to keep people out of the building. 

Rents for single-family homes are soaring, as a pricey for-sale market keeps more potential buyers in rentals.

The national eviction ban has lapsed, but New York, New Jersey and New Mexico have their own moratoriums. Many cities continue to curb the proceedings as well.

Months after the national ban on evictions expired, a number of states and cities have either kept in place or implemented policies curbing the proceedings.

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. was released from the Howard University hospital Tuesday afternoon and is back to work negotiating between students and the administration over campus housing issues, according to a news release from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

“My choice to have a baby was personal, and it should’ve been mine alone and not for an employer ultimatum,” Chanel Dickerson said Tuesday at a community meeting.

The District of Columbia’s attorney general added Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in a complaint over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

FBI agents swarmed the home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, an agency spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been indicted on obstruction of justice charges after prosecutors say he helped to hide evidence of a rioter’s involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Former President Donald Trump publicly claimed his D.C. hotel was profitable. But his accountants told the landlord it lost money.

The food delivery service announced Monday it’s adding alcohol to its marketplace across 20 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Australia.