A Texas state judge issued an injunction against anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, blocking it from trying to enforce the new six-week abortion ban against Planned Parenthood in Texas.
Four US gymnastics stars will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday during a hearing about the FBI's handling of the sex abuse investigation of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
Karen Olick, the chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, announced Monday that she's resigning to move on to another undisclosed opportunity, a DHS official confirmed to CNN.
A Mississippi abortion clinic filed the latest salvo over the future of abortion rights Monday, urging the Supreme Court to reject a bid to "jettison a half-century of settled precedent" and block a law that bars most abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
With all eyes turning to California on Tuesday to see whether Gov. Gavin Newsom is recalled, a few places within the Golden State could offer some early clues -- not only about whether the Democratic governor can keep his job -- but also what the political climate might look like next year in a state where Republicans picked up four House seats in 2020.
US Capitol Police say they arrested a California man who had multiple knives in his truck, which had a swastika and other White supremacist symbols painted on it, near the Democratic National Committee headquarters early Monday morning.
Democrats' ability to reimagine the social safety net and cement their and President Joe Biden's domestic policy legacy for decades to come is about to be tested like never before.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Sunday rejected claims that decisions by the high court are driven by political views at a speech at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center.
Americans have grown more supportive of coronavirus vaccine mandates for workers, students, and in everyday public life, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The shift comes amid renewed worries about the pandemic and a continued partisan divide over the efforts to combat it.
House and Senate Democratic leaders are scrambling to unite their party behind a massive economic package to implement much of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, but substantial disagreements remain and could threaten to derail the effort.
Democrats have been waiting for years to reimagine the tax code so that, in their words, the wealthy are paying their "fair share" and working and poor families aren't disproportionately hit with the tax burden. But overturning key pieces of the GOP's 2017 tax law -- a boon for businesses that lowered individual and corporate taxes -- won't happen without a bruising fight, potentially within their own party.
When the election office led by Lisa Deeley first came under attack from then-President Donald Trump last year, it was more than a month before Election Day.
After the biggest military evacuation in history, the Biden administration will now resettle more than 60,000 Afghan refugees inside the US over the next several weeks. To accommodate them, eight military bases have transformed into "small cities," as one Defense official put it.
Only Donald Trump knows whether he will mount a run for the White House in 2024. But it's already clear what such a campaign would look like. It would be built on a lie that he was cheated out of office and would relentlessly politicize and monetize America's ideological, social and racial divides.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said Sunday he will not support the $3.5 trillion price tag for the economic bill that would expand the nation's social safety net, suggesting he preferred $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion for this bill.
A hospital in upstate New York is "pausing" deliveries of babies because of the number of maternity unit employee resignations over the state's Covid-19 vaccination requirements, health officials say.
US commanders who led the war in Afghanistan are wrestling with the country's collapse to the Taliban, with some ruing the "pretty horrible mistakes" the US military made along the way and one of them flatly declaring America's longest war was not worth the price.
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