The elections administrator in Harris County, Texas, announced Tuesday that she had submitted her resignation, amid a mail-in ballot counting discrepancy in election night results.
On Monday night, the US Supreme Court rejected Republican-led challenges to congressional district maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, handing Democrats a win in each of the hotly contested states.
GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, one of a handful of Republican votes in play as Democrats fight to confirm President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, praised Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson after meeting with her Tuesday on Capitol Hill, saying it's "clear that her credentials and the breadth of her experience are impressive."
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky invited comparisons to Winston Churchill when he riffed on the former prime minister's most famous speech. Douglas Brinkley, the American presidential historian, offers better comparisons.
The Pentagon on Tuesday evening dismissed Poland's proposal floated hours earlier to transfer its MiG-29 fighter jets to the United States for delivery to Ukraine.
The family of an American detained in Russia spoke with President Joe Biden on Tuesday shortly after waving at the President's passing motorcade in Fort Worth, Texas.
A sweeping bill that will overhaul the US Postal Service's finances and allow the agency to modernize its service is headed to President Joe Biden's desk.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday vowed to help veterans exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan get the care they need, pledging that the United States would not make the same mistakes it did following Vietnam War, when veterans struggled to attain federal benefits after being exposed to Agent Orange.
The Department of Homeland Security intelligence division had identified "specific" threats related to January 6, 2021, prior to the attack on the US Capitol, but did not widely share any intelligence it had gathered until two days after the riot, according to a new watchdog report.
Former President Donald Trump's most loyal allies in Congress have been relegated to the political wilderness for the past few years. Now they're plotting their comeback.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday is expected to ban Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports to the US, according to three sources familiar with the decision.
President Joe Biden's urgent global search for help shutting off Russia's oil revenues is leading, in some instances, to regimes he once sought to isolate or avoid.
President Joe Biden is facing historically low approval ratings among independents, a trend that threatens Democrats in November's midterm elections if he can't reverse it by then.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is like the West's moral conscience, with his daily video commentary highlighting his country's heroism in resisting a Russian invasion that has degenerated into murderous barrages against civilians.
The Biden administration filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court on Monday, asking it to freeze a lower-court opinion requiring the Navy to deploy special operations forces even though they have refused to get vaccinated for Covid-19.
Article 5 is the principle that an attack on one member of NATO is an attack on all members. If a Russian attack extended into one of Ukraine's neighbors that is a NATO member, Article 5 could trigger direct involvement from the US and other members of the alliance.
Roughly 114 US Capitol Police officers reported injuries as a result of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a government watchdog said in a new report Monday, well above the previously widely reported estimate of around 80 injured officers.
The Senate passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 on Monday night by unanimous consent. The bill, which would make lynching a federal hate crime, now heads to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature.
The Supreme Court on Monday night denied requests from Republicans challenging congressional maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that had been approved by state courts, in two rulings that could benefit Democrats in the midterm elections.
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