Recent revelations about the political activism Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, have renewed scrutiny about how the Supreme Court approaches questions of potential conflicts of interest with the cases that the justices are reviewing.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday blocked the state's new Republican-drawn congressional and legislative maps, ruling 4-3 that they violate the state constitution.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has gotten the Pentagon's sign-off on his memoir of his time working under President Donald Trump and will drop a lawsuit against the department for not clearing his book manuscript for publication, his attorney said Friday.
Politics is never far removed from the selection of any Supreme Court justice, but the political winds are blowing with unusual ferocity around J. Michelle Childs, a federal judge from South Carolina who is among those on a short list to fill President Joe Biden's first court vacancy.
The Biden administration will implement new updates to school nutrition standards for the coming academic years, the US Department of Agriculture announced Friday, as part of an effort to make school meals healthier while schools also work to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The House of Representatives voted Friday to make sweeping investments in American manufacturing and scientific research as well as changes to trade policy in an effort to make the US more competitive on the global stage and counter China's growing economic influence.
A Republican bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona -- including giving the state legislature the power to reject election results -- proved to be too much even for state GOP leaders this week.
Vladimir Putin is doing it again. He's got Washington in a frenzy. Everyone's got a theory about what the Russian president plans for Ukraine. But no one really knows. Maybe he doesn't himself.
An Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia expects a special grand jury for the case to see a lot of activity in June and July, according to reporting from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday.
Conventional wisdom heading into this year was that Republicans would benefit mightily from the decennial congressional line-drawing process, carving up districts and creating a decidedly friendly national map.
The Olympic torch to be lit Friday in Beijing is supposed to kick off a celebration of athletics. But this year's winter competition is setting world records in awkward, from tensions between Russia and Ukraine to the US diplomatic boycott over China's human rights record.
US officials alleged Thursday that Russia has been preparing to "fabricate a pretext for an invasion" of Ukraine by creating "a very graphic propaganda video" that would depict a fake attack by Ukraine against Russia.
Their paths to the New York Police Department's downtown Manhattan headquarters on Thursday could hardly have been more different, but President Joe Biden and New York City Mayor Eric Adams are now -- by their choosing and at their own political risk -- increasingly bound as the Democratic Party tries to plot a course ahead of this year's midterm elections amid a pandemic-era spike in violent crime.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin encouraged CEOs from more than two dozen of America's largest defense companies to accelerate hypersonic weapons development during a high-level meeting Thursday.
Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark made good on his promise and pleaded the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during his deposition with the House January 6 committee on Wednesday, a source familiar with the interview told CNN.
New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the state's new congressional map into law Thursday, a source familiar with the matter said, enacting a map that will likely net Democrats several seats in the US House of Representatives in this fall's midterm elections.
Members of the Republican National Committee's resolution committee unanimously passed a motion on Thursday to formally censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger over their service on the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.
The State Department has shared information about China's human rights abuses with US Olympic athletes and defended athletes' right to express opposition to those violations on the eve of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
Medicare expects to start paying for home Covid-19 tests purchased at participating pharmacies and retailers in the early spring. Over-the-counter tests have not been covered by traditional Medicare before and setting up the process takes some time, which is why reimbursements won't start immediately.
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