The Supreme Court's response to recent controversy over the justices' masking practices reveals its studied lack of transparency and that, regardless of tensions among the nine, they will close ranks, particularly against the press.
President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass legislation strengthening research and development and manufacturing for supply chains to address global semiconductor shortages.
The Biden administration will start paying federal civilian employees a $15 hourly minimum wage by the end of the month, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday, raising the pay for thousands of workers across the federal government.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met to discuss escalating tensions on Ukraine-Russia border. Follow here for the latest.
President Joe Biden on Friday accepted an invitation to visit Japan in the late spring during his virtual meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, according to a senior administration official.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is announcing a new federal roadmap to improve job quality and job access on Friday, as Americans continue to leave the workforce in record numbers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Three recent ads from Republican Senate candidates explicitly echo the false claim that the 2020 election was rigged or stolen, illustrating how lies from former President Donald Trump and his allies continue to drive GOP messaging ahead of the 2022 midterms.
Kevin McCarthy was done being nice. The House Republican leader cast off his typically sunny demeanor during a December 8 meeting of the GOP conference to deliver a stern warning to his most raucous members: Quit trying to hold your vote for speaker over my head.
First lady Jill Biden visited Kentucky last Friday, a state that her husband, President Joe Biden, did not win in the 2020 election. Not that she cared. She was there to check in on victims of last month's deadly tornadoes, which ripped through Bowling Green, taking down houses, gutting businesses and killing nearly 80 people in the state.
Escalating psychological warfare between the United States and Russia over Ukraine is fast approaching a point at which a peaceful exit from a crisis with real-world ramifications for Americans could be impossible.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced a run for governor on Thursday, a decision that comes weeks after popular Republican Gov. Charlie Baker said he would not seek reelection.
The US will require essential travelers crossing into the United States via land ports of entry and ferry terminals to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and provide proof of vaccination starting Saturday, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly pushed back Thursday on US President Joe Biden's comments that a "minor incursion" by Russia into Ukraine would prompt a lesser response than a full-scale invasion, in an implicit rebuke of Biden's comments.
The Justice Department is arguing that Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes should remain in jail as he awaits trial for seditious conspiracy related to the attack on the US Capitol.
The committee investigating the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021, has issued scores of subpoenas to individuals and organizations as part of its probe into circumstances and coordination leading up to the storming of the US Capitol.
Over the furious dissent of three liberal justices, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected another attempt by abortion providers to block Texas' six-week abortion ban.
Amanda Gorman, the nation's first youth poet laureate, recounted her fears ahead of President Joe Biden's inauguration in an op-ed published exactly one year later in The New York Times on Thursday.
Erin Bromage, a biology professor at UMass Dartmouth, says his thoughts on masks in schools have changed as vaccines have become available for the youngest age groups. He argues that schools should be moving toward masks coming off as the community infection numbers drop.
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