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It was a stern and startling warning from the White House's new Covid response coordinator: In the fall and winter, the US could potentially see 100 million new Covid-19 infections if Congress doesn't approve federal funding to fight the pandemic.

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it would cancel three upcoming offshore oil and gas leases -- two in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska -- over a lack of interest and delays.

Some of the largest anti-abortion organizations in the US are urging state lawmakers to reject legislation that would criminalize women for having abortions, saying "turning women who have abortions into criminals is not the way."

President Joe Biden predicted Wednesday that if the Supreme Court officially overturns Roe v. Wade's holding of a federal constitutional right to abortion, the court will next look to strike down other landmark cases guaranteeing Americans' rights, from same-sex marriage to contraception access.

The Democratic Party's first major bid to save abortion rights since the leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion did more to expose the party's helplessness in the face of Roe v. Wade's possible demise than to unleash the kind of generational battle that conservatives mounted to threaten the landmark ruling.

The chief of the US Navy defended the service's plans to scrap nine relatively new warships in the coming fiscal year even as the service tries to keep up with China's growing fleet. Three of the littoral combat ships slated for decommissioning are less than three years old.

The Supreme Court is set to meet behind closed doors on Thursday for the first time since the astonishing leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

Politico's publication last week of Justice Samuel Alito's first draft in a Mississippi abortion dispute opened an exceptional window on the inner workings of the Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden on Thursday mourned 1 million American deaths from Covid-19, using the occasion to again urge Congress to pass additional funding to control the pandemic.

In the hours after Fox released a poll this week showing Pennsylvania Republican US Senate candidate Kathy Barnette locked in a statistical tie with primary opponents Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick, allies of former President Donald Trump went to work trying to stifle her momentum.

For weeks -- months even -- the refrain from Democrats, privately and then increasingly publicly, was that the party was message-less, unable to find a clear and concise argument to bring to the American public ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

The US Navy has identified the sailor killed in a recent helicopter landing accident at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Former President Donald Trump has officially checked out of the Washington, DC, hotel business.

Vladimir Putin "has recognized he has no victory to celebrate," US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told CNN in response to the lack of a major escalatory announcement in the Russian President's "Victory Day" speech Monday.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday blamed Russia's invasion of Ukraine for domestic price hikes and global food supply shortages, praising American farmers for being the "breadbasket of democracy" amid the war.

The US Air Force disciplined the crew of a "Hurricane Hunters" WC-130 Hercules aircraft after they landed at Martha's Vineyard in late March to pick up a personal motorcycle, the 403rd Wing announced in a statement Wednesday.

Former President Donald Trump's influence is currently having a resurgence. Candidates he has endorsed are winning key GOP primaries. Candidates he had not endorsed are still swearing fealty to him. And he may soon get an important bullhorn back: The mute button placed on him by Twitter may be lifted.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Joe Biden's pick for Federal Trade Commissioner, Alvaro Bedoya. The 51-50 vote was along party lines, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking a tie.

The National Archives is poised to turn over yet another batch of documents to the House's investigation into the January 6 insurrection, according to a new set of letters released by the agency on Wednesday.

The House Committee on Natural Resources is referring an investigation involving "potentially criminal conduct" about a policy reversal involving former Trump administration officials to the Department of Justice, according to a letter obtained by CNN.