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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Tuesday that he had contracted Covid-19 and is "experiencing mild symptoms," becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for the virus.

Florida lawmakers are considering new legislation aimed at changing election laws in Florida including creating an election police force -- a proposal sought by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday defended the bureau against right-wing claims that it is pursuing cases against people who participated in the January 6, 2021, insurrection more aggressively than it is for rioters who attacked private and public buildings during racial justice protests in 2020.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov did not give an indication that Moscow will de-escalate from the border with Ukraine in a call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken Tuesday, a senior State Department official said following the latest diplomatic effort between the two sides amid the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On Sunday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz offered his take on President Joe Biden's pledge to pick a Black woman for the forthcoming opening on the Supreme Court.

Greg Jacob, a top aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot on Tuesday.

Key swing vote Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia offered a grim pronouncement on the status of President Joe Biden's remaining domestic agenda, saying on Tuesday that the Build Back Better act is "dead," underscoring how the sweeping proposal to expand the social safety net has hit a wall with no clear path forward even as Democrats hope to eventually pass some kind of scaled-back version of the legislation.

Some of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the Senate have raised enormous sums and head into the midterms with massive war chests, new campaign finance reports show. But they will face deep-pocketed Republican opposition.

President Joe Biden spent Tuesday afternoon starting the process of courting crucial senators who will play key roles in confirming his future Supreme Court nominee, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, as he got set to pick the man who will guide the nominee through the process.

President Joe Biden's commitment to nominate a Black woman as a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been criticized as "reverse racism" in several outlets, with some conservatives even calling Biden's decisions "definitionally affirmative action."

Last spring, congressional Republicans made two fateful decisions.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was met with concern and frustration during meetings with US Border Patrol agents at several locations along the southern border last week, according to sources familiar with the discussions and leaked audio and video.

Former President Donald Trump suggested he would pardon January 6 rioters if he wins the White House again. He encouraged mass protests if investigations into him and his businesses don't shake his way. And he falsely claimed that the vice president has the power turn to overturn an election and nullify the will of the voters.

Virginia's largest public universities have dropped their Covid-19 vaccination requirement for students to attend in person or to enroll in light of last week's legal opinion issued by state Attorney General Jason Miyares.

The US State Department on Monday ordered family members of employees at the US Embassy in Belarus to depart the country and warned American citizens against travel there due to an "unusual and concerning Russian military buildup" along Belarus' border with Ukraine.

The National Security Agency failed to follow both court-approved and internal procedures designed to prevent officials from using a controversial foreign surveillance law to inappropriately monitor Americans' communications, the NSA inspector general found in a semi-annual report released on Monday.

The war chest he has stockpiled is unprecedented for a former President and underscores his financial dominance in Republican politics more than a year after leaving the White House and in the midst of a critical midterm cycle.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called President Joe Biden's commitment to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court "offensive" and said that by doing so the President is telling other Americans "you are ineligible."

The House committee probing the US Capitol insurrection racked up one of its most significant wins yet, just as fresh evidence shed new light on ex-President Donald Trump's coup plotting.

Former President Donald Trump's advisers drafted two versions of an executive order to seize voting machines -- one directing the Department of Defense to do so and another the Department of Homeland Security -- as part of a broader effort to undermine the 2020 election results, multiple sources tell CNN.