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President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the results of the previous day's primary elections reflected a desire from the American public to take a harder stance on crime and gun violence and called on states and localities to spend funds allocated from the Covid-19 relief bill to bolster police departments.

With public hearings kicking off this week, the House select committee investigating January 6 is zeroing in on former President Donald Trump, and is preparing to use its platform to argue that he was responsible for grave abuses of power that nearly upended US democracy.

Seven states -- including the population behemoth California -- held primaries on Tuesday. In the most-watched race of the night for Los Angeles mayor, billionaire businessman Rick Caruso ran ahead of Democratic Rep. Karen Bass as both will advance to the November general election.

Survivors and others affected by the recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will testify before the House Oversight Committee today. Follow here for the latest.

The Supreme Court said Wednesday that a Border Patrol agent in Washington state cannot be personally sued in federal court for damages after a private citizen brought claims of illegal retaliation and excessive force.

Top Democratic leaders in Washington and across the country fear that Donald Trump might be running for president again by the time Attorney General Merrick Garland decides whether to prosecute him and others in his orbit for the January 6 insurrection -- and that any action by the Biden Justice Department could be cast by Republicans as little more than a political vendetta.

He told law enforcement he had traveled from California to kill "a specific United States Supreme Court Justice."

In just over 30 hours, the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol will officially unveil its first findings in a primetime hearing that is expected to be carried live on all broadcast and cable news channels, save Fox News.

A House committee will hear testimony on gun violence at a hearing on Wednesday, including from a fourth-grade student who survived the horrific mass shooting last month at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that shocked the nation.

Rising concerns about crime and homelessness burst to the forefront Tuesday as San Francisco voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a progressive who had ended cash bail and sought to reduce the number of people sent to prison.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has privately expressed an openness for raising the age to 21 for purchasing semiautomatic rifles, according to a person familiar with the matter, but the issue is unlikely to be included in any final deal because most Republicans are opposed to it.

The biggest developments in recent weeks are the Justice Department's new seditious conspiracy charge against the Proud Boys and the footsteps of investigators as they look at the Trump campaign's use of "alternative" Republican electors in battleground states that Donald Trump lost, like Georgia.

Lawmakers are beginning to see the contours of a gun deal taking shape in the US Senate even as both sides admit there is far more work to do to convince lawmakers to get behind a narrow package that will be far less robust than Democrats had hoped for and a heavy lift for Republicans from red states, where any changes to gun laws can be met with stiff resistance.

In the immediate aftermath of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, which left 19 children and two teachers dead, Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming said she doubted that ideas being weighed in Congress to curb gun violence would be welcomed in her very pro-gun state.

Parents of victims and a survivor of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, will speak at a hearing held by the US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday about the gun violence epidemic.

It was never clearer than on Wednesday that the Senate's paltry ambition on gun reform is overwhelmed by the horrific reality of America's regular massacres and the unbearable agony of family members left behind.

US Rep. Karen Bass, a longtime Democratic lawmaker who was on President Joe Biden's short list for a running mate during the 2020 campaign, could make history in California.

In March 2018, then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a piece of legislation that, among other things, raised the age at which individuals could legally buy firearms in the state to 21.