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Adam Kinzinger had a very interesting answer when asked recently about the prospect of running against Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

At least for now, and maybe forever, US travelers will not be required to wear masks on airplanes thanks to a court ruling Monday that said the Biden administration's Covid-19 transportation policy was unlawful.

Supporters of abortion rights filed a new federal lawsuit Tuesday in the latest bid to prevent enforcement of Texas' six-week abortion ban, which has dramatically reduced access to the procedure in the country's second largest state.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN on Tuesday that his department is actively preparing for a potential increase in migrants next month when a Trump-era pandemic restriction lifts on the US-Mexico border amid fierce criticism from Democrats and Republicans about the Biden administration's decision.

The Justice Department said Tuesday it will appeal a court ruling that struck down the federal government's mask mandate for travelers -- but only if the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determines the mandate is still necessary to protect public health.

The Department of Education is making more changes to the federal student loan system that will help bring millions of borrowers -- some of whom may have previously been in forbearance -- closer to receiving debt forgiveness.

The US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it has sent across the border into Ukraine, sources tell CNN, a blind spot that's due in large part to the lack of US boots on the ground in the country -- and the easy portability of many of the smaller systems now pouring across the border.

When three red states finalized severe restrictions on abortion over consecutive days last week, they highlighted the GOP's rising militancy on the issue -- and the political and legal calculations underpinning it.

US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods on Monday, and a Biden administration official says the order is no longer in effect while the ruling is reviewed.

John Eastman, a far-right lawyer for then-President Donald Trump who wanted to block his electoral loss in 2020, is still withholding about 3,200 documents from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, according to a new court filing this week.

With all the focus of late on inflation and its impact on the coming midterm election, we may be overlooking another issue gaining traction among the American public: immigration.

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it was restoring key provisions of a bedrock environmental law that were rolled back under President Donald Trump.

Congress is considering taking back some of the money it authorized last year for a small business aid program in order to pay for new Covid-19 vaccines, testing and therapeutics. A bipartisan deal proposes taking about $2 billion from a $10 billion small business program that hasn't disbursed any funds yet.

Give J.D. Vance this: He gets the whole Donald Trump thing.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis escalated his weeks-long feud with Disney on Tuesday, challenging lawmakers to eliminate the unique status that allows the entertainment company to operate as an independent government around its Orlando-area theme parks.

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Mitch McConnell isn't backing down in his standoff with Donald Trump.

Three sailors from the USS George Washington aircraft carrier were found dead in less than one week, the Navy said, as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and local authorities investigate the deaths.

A federal judge on Monday cleared the way for a coalition of liberal groups to move forward with their attempt to disqualify controversial GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection, based on claims that she aided the January 6 insurrectionists.

Biden administration officials found themselves straddling an uncomfortable line in their quest to end the Covid-19 pandemic Monday -- celebrating a return to near-normalcy as they hosted scores of unmasked children for the White House Easter Egg Roll and then watching one of their final lines of defense against the virus fall hours later when a federal judge in Florida struck down the federal mask mandate for airlines, trains and mass transit.