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Speaker Nancy Pelosi informed her leadership team that the House would pass a Senate bill to bolster security for Supreme Court justices, according to a person who heard her remarks, a move that would end an increasingly acrimonious standoff with Republicans over the issue.

On Sunday on CNN, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was asked what seemed like a simple question. But, she refused to give a straight answer.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former member of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, was paid a $60,000 speaking fee for introducing Donald Trump Jr., her fiancé, at the "Stop the Steal" rally on the Ellipse that acted as a precursor to the US Capitol riot, a member of the House select committee that's investigating January 6 told CNN on Monday.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed concerns Monday that President Joe Biden's age or stamina might pose a challenge for his reelection bid, saying, "That is not a question that we should be even asking."

It is a mark of the extreme choices Donald Trump forces upon those who served him that William Barr now finds himself on the same side as his liberal, one-time accusers in defending America's democracy.

With the powerful case it has assembled against former President Donald Trump, the bipartisan House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection may provide the clearest -- and potentially most ominous -- measure yet available of how completely red and blue America have separated into divergent information bubbles that no longer share even the most rudimentary agreement on the basic facts of American life.

The news, on its face, was huge: After almost three decades of inaction, a group of senators -- Democrats and Republicans -- announced Sunday that they had agreed to a piece of gun control legislation.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday that he plans to watch all the hearings held by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol -- and that prosecutors handling criminal cases stemming from the insurrection are watching, too.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia on Monday defended a newly reached bipartisan gun deal as a pragmatic step forward that won't threaten gun owners' Second Amendment rights.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the progressive firebrand and former Democratic presidential candidate, said on Monday he would not challenge President Joe Biden in a 2024 primary and would back him if he runs -- a comment that comes as Democrats are uncertain whether the 79-year-old President should run again.

The vast majority of Republican senators were slow Monday to embrace the announced gun safety framework, telling CNN they want more details before saying where they stand.

Vice President Kamala Harris will convene a roundtable on Tuesday with constitutional law, privacy and technology experts to discuss the legal and everyday implications of the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v. Wade.

The chairman of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol told reporters Monday that the panel will not make any criminal referral of former President Donald Trump or anyone else to the Justice Department -- a claim that met swift pushback from members of the panel.

The panel investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol sought to demonstrate in its second public hearing that the former President had ample proof from many people in his inner circle that his claims of election fraud were baseless, but he still peddled them in the race to collect massive campaign sums in the waning days of his presidency.

The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol detailed Monday how those around then-President Donald Trump told him he lost the 2020 election -- but he refused to listen, turning instead to his attorney Rudy Giuliani to embrace false claims that the election was stolen.

The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection began methodically dismantling Donald Trump's election lie during Monday's public hearing, the first part of its argument that he led a conspiracy to overturn election results.

The Supreme Court on Monday held that a member of the Navajo Nation could be tried in a certain type of Indian court as well as a federal district court for the same crime without violating the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution.

For the second time in the last five days, the January 6 committee met publicly to make its case that former President Donald Trump knew he was lying about fraud in the 2020 election -- and did it anyway.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a slate of bills on Monday that aim to protect out-of-state patients and abortion providers from legal action in other states.

Officer Eugene Goodman, the US Capitol Police officer who led the mob of protesters away from the Senate chamber on January 6, 2021, as senators and then-Vice President Mike Pence were evacuating, testified on Monday that the mob breaching the Capitol and breaking into the lower levels of the building "looked like something out of medieval times."