Politics

First things first: Joe Biden isn’t going to take away your hamburgers. There’s a bizarre rumor going around in right-wing circles…

The New York Post temporarily deleted, and then edited and republished, a debunked article that falsely claimed that copies of Vice President Kamala…

The Justice Department has repealed a policy put in place during the Trump administration that restricted so-called sanctuary cities from receiving…

President Joe Biden will deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, but since this is his first address, it’s…

Rep. Ted Budd launched his North Carolina Senate campaign on Wednesday, aligning himself with former President Donald Trump in a 2022 bid for the…

Richard Barnett, the man who put his feet on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and left her an insulting note during the Capitol…

Carol Erker vividly remembers the emotion that washed over her after Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Even as she worried about the pandemic and the…

On the cusp of the 100-day mark of Joe Biden’s presidency, a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds 53% of Americans approve of the way he is…

Sen. Tim Scott, a key player in the bipartisan congressional effort to overhaul policing, will step into the national spotlight Wednesday, handpicked…

The Justice Department on Tuesday abandoned the idea that pro-Trump rioters had used bear spray against US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick…

Critics of California Gov. Gavin Newsom have met the state’s threshold with enough validated signatures to force a recall election of the…

Progressive Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is reintroducing three policing bills she hopes will be incorporated into the bipartisan package…

Kelly Tshibaka, a Republican Senate candidate seeking to challenge Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in 2022, once wrote in support of an…

The Justice Department has charged at least 400 people in connection with the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, according to CNN’s…

The Senate confirmed Colin Kahl to be the No. 3 civilian at the Pentagon on Tuesday, approving President Joe Biden’s nominee for Pentagon…

An Alaska state lawmaker who had called flight attendants “mask bullies” and clashed with airline employees on video over mask rules is…

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will meet with former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter in their hometown of…

The State Department on Tuesday ordered the departure of government employees from the US Embassy in Kabul “whose functions can be performed…

President Joe Biden will nominate Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, a critic of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies,…

When President Joe Biden delivers his first address to Congress on Wednesday, two of the past year’s ground-shaking events will be hard to…

President Joe Biden will seek $80 billion to fund enhanced Internal Revenue Service enforcement of high-earners to help pay for his American Families…

More than three-quarters of Americans say they are satisfied with the guilty verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the…

The most important development thus far in the race for control of the House of Representatives in 2022 arguably occurred with Monday’s release…

Iran’s Navy once again harassed US ships operating in the Persian Gulf, this time coming within 68 yards of the ships on Monday night,…

The Washington Metropolitan Police Department has been the subject of a ransomware attack, according to a source familiar with the incident. The…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pointedly declined an opportunity on Tuesday to say whether he believes Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3-ranking House…

When President Joe Biden speaks to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, it will look different than presidential addresses in years past with…

“Amtrak Joe” is returning to his roots. President Joe Biden will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Amtrak’s founding when he…

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory acknowledged reality in 2020: former President Donald Trump lost. He then explained why — and objected…

An Arizona Republican lawmaker on Friday defended a GOP-sponsored bill that would change the mail-in voting process by arguing that state lawmakers…

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday announced a Justice Department investigation into the practices of the Louisville Police Department. The…

The son of a retired New York City family court judge is on trial for allegedly threatening the lives of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, now-Senate…

Republican members of Congress, Fox News personalities and other prominent right-wing figures are falsely claiming that President Joe Biden is trying…

A Fox News anchor admitted on air on Monday that his show was inaccurate when it claimed on Friday that President Joe Biden is trying to require…

The White House is reconsidering raising the number of refugees allowed into the US to about 62,500, its original goal, The Washington Post reported…

Donald Trump schooled his protégés well in his politics of down-in-the-muck misinformation. The ex-President’s Washington devotees and media…

Are you still washing your hands as diligently as you did at the beginning of the pandemic? If you’re like the people tracked in a recent…

There has been a major coronavirus outbreak among US diplomatic staff in India with two locally employed staff dying and more than 100 people testing…

President Joe Biden is moving fast. Like, really fast. And his speed and leftward orientation are bringing a previously fractured Republican Party…

Over the last year, more than more than 90 anti-protest bills have been introduced in at least 36 states. These bills were introduced after a summer…

New York state came just 89 residents short of maintaining all of its congressional districts, Census Bureau officials said Monday, and will now lose…

West Virginia will give $100 savings bonds to residents ages 16 to 35 who get vaccinated against Covid, Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday.…

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday launched an internal review to address the threat of domestic violent extremism within the department,…

After months of waiting and delay, the US Census Bureau finally released its final count of the country’s population and, with it, the states…

The US Census Bureau announced Monday that the total population of the United States has topped 331 million people, marking the country’s…

Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a near-total abortion ban and two other abortion restrictions into law on Monday, sending a sweeping…

For 90 years, it has become a ritual in American politics to pause and compare the first 100 days of a new presidency to the record of early…

When Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam looks back at his tenure, the inflection point between being a run-of-the-mill executive and the progressive leader…

For the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into…

The White House is hammering out the details of an increasingly likely European summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir…

For the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into…

Calling it the nation’s largest summer child nutrition effort, the Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand a key coronavirus…

Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan launched his Senate campaign on Monday, betting that the state that turned red in the Trump era can return to the Democratic party…

President Joe Biden’s joint address to Congress may stand as the prime-time marker of his first 100 days in office, but it will also serve as…

While President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are readying their plan to hike incomes taxes on the wealthy, a new government report shows…

The United States plans to share millions of doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine with other countries in the coming months, the White…

Joe Biden says he has a strict rule about his phone: No matter what’s happening, he always answers a call from one of his grandchildren. Biden…

As Americans have been shaken by recent mass shootings and national leaders have renewed calls for firearms reform, the Supreme Court on Monday…

Several US Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical Monday of a California law that requires charitable organizations that solicit donations to…