The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow a vaccine mandate aimed at federal health care workers to go into effect nationwide, marking the first time the justices have been asked to weigh in on a federal mandate the Biden administration put in place in order to get more Americans vaccinated amid a surge of the Delta and Omicron coronavirus variants.
With chances for passage of the Build Back Better Act dimming by the day, the Biden administration and prominent Democrats have made a quick pivot -- insisting that now is the moment to pass voting rights protection through Congress.
President Joe Biden said on Thursday warned people who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 are looking at a very bleak and dangerous winter if they do not get their shots soon.
With the Supreme Court poised to undo its abortion rights precedent, the Biden administration is considering a move that could mitigate the fallout from a Roe v. Wade reversal. And red states are already on the march to counteract whatever the federal government opts to do.
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol announced Thursday that it subpoenaed James P. "Phil" Waldron, a retired Army colonel who spread misinformation about election fraud and circulated a PowerPoint document detailing ways to undermine the 2020 presidential election outcome.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee -- chaired by Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia -- has struck a House-passed provision in the Build Back Better Act to ban all future off-shore drilling off the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts, a source close to Manchin confirmed to CNN.
Vice President Kamala Harris told The Wall Street Journal that she and President Joe Biden haven't talked about whether the 79-year-old will run for reelection in 2024
A New York man was sentenced Thursday to 33 months in prison for posting online violent threats against Congress and a then-newly elected Democratic senator ahead of and during the January 6 Capitol insurrection, according to the Brooklyn US attorney's office.
The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot interviewed former Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli last week, he told CNN on Thursday.
The Justice Department has informed attorneys representing separated migrant families that it will cease settlement negotiations and are ready to go back to court, according to an attorney representing families.
Three lawsuits that seek to hold Donald Trump and his closest advisers accountable for the US Capitol riot are moving forward after months of inaction.
The US military has vaccinated more than 97% for its active-duty force against Covid-19 as the Army, which had the latest vaccination deadline amongst the services, released its latest numbers.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill that posthumously awards a Congressional Gold Medal to the 13 US service members killed in a terrorist attack outside Kabul's airport in August.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed the bill raising the debt limit ceiling that passed Congress earlier this week, according to a press release from the White House.
If politics still turned on truth and facts, this would be the week when the lie-filled foundations of Donald Trump's movement imploded, destroying his apparent dream of a return to power after the 2024 election.
The US Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday night shut down external access to its computer systems for 12 hours in response to a critical software vulnerability that is roiling the internet, the office said Thursday.
If Republicans win the House majority next November -- and they are currently favored to do so -- then Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan will almost certainly rise to one of the most prominent positions in the chamber: Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
In the latest setback for abortion clinics in Texas, Justice Neil Gorsuch said Thursday that a conservative federal appeals court should handle the next steps of litigation concerning the state's six-week ban, a move that will likely leave women seeking abortions in the state in legal limbo for weeks if not months.
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