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The US is expelling the second most senior diplomat at the Russian embassy in Washington as a response to the expulsion of the second ranking US diplomat in Moscow earlier this year, according to the State Department.

Texas kicks off the first round of primaries for the 2022 midterm season on March 1. Down the ballot beyond governor, candidates are running for a host of other statewide positions with a wide variety of duties -- and one position for which the title has nothing to do with the actual job.

Florida moved one step closer on Thursday to banning teachers from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms for young students, with the state's GOP-led House of Representatives approving a controversial bill that's facing intense opposition from LGBTQ advocates and the White House.

President Joe Biden has warned Americans they will have to pay a price for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Gas prices are likely to rise. But Biden has also been very clear on another point: US troops will not be sent to Ukraine to take part in the conflict.

Back in the day when Donald Trump was just a problem child, he wound up in detention so much after school that his classmates began calling it the DT's. The Detention Club became his special place.

Planned Parenthood clinics in the five states neighboring Texas saw a nearly 800% increase in abortion patients from the Lone Star State after a six-week ban went into effect in September, the organization said Thursday.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin deployed an additional 7,000 US troops to Europe on Thursday following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a move intended to bolster NATO countries in Eastern Europe in the face of Moscow's aggression.

Climate advocates are sounding the alarm ahead of Biden's Tuesday State of the Union speech amid what they see is slow action on the climate crisis.

More than half of US abortions in 2020 were conducted using medication, according to new data assembled by a reproductive rights think tank that marked a notable inflection point in the method's growing popularity amid new efforts to limit access to the pills.

President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled harsh new sanctions on Russia meant to punish the country for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggression even as he acknowledged it would take time for the new measures to alter Putin's behavior.

President Joe Biden is set to address the nation Thursday afternoon in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He will do so from a decidedly weak political position, according to recent poll numbers.

Donald Trump can't help himself.

Walking out to a slick hype video and tossing hats into a raucous crowd as he approached the microphone, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday demonstrated for the Conservative Political Action Conference the bravado and fighting attitude that has made him the most popular elected Republican in the country among conservatives.

US President Joe Biden condemned Russia's "unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces" in a statement Wednesday evening following explosions in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden was working the phones with top national security officials in the moments before and after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced he was launching a military intervention in Ukraine, the grim fulfillment of Biden's predictions stretching back weeks.

Just as diplomats at a last-minute United Nations Security Council meeting were pleading for peace, Russian fire began raining down on Ukraine.

The US Postal Service is moving ahead with a plan to replace its current fleet with 90% gas-powered trucks and 10% battery electric vehicles, after the Environmental Protection Agency and White House objected to the move and asked for further study of the impact of emissions.

Former President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, who also served as senior White House adviser, is in discussions with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection to voluntarily appear for an interview, her spokesperson and two sources familiar with the probe confirmed to CNN.

Several signals suggest President Joe Biden is moving closer to picking someone to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, as the White House quickly approaches its self-imposed deadline to announce a nominee before the end of the month.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Wednesday offered rare praise for President Joe Biden over sanctions targeting the company behind a controversial pipeline that has become a flashpoint in the intensifying Ukraine-Russia crisis.