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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Democrats are moving "full speed ahead" on the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill despite the call for a "strategic pause" and smaller price tag from moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

President Joe Biden held a belated Labor Day celebration at the White House on Wednesday as he made the case for his large-scale economic agenda and how it would benefit working and middle-class families at an event honoring labor unions.

A new report from the US Department of Energy shows that solar energy could play a massive role in transitioning the United States' power sector to clean energy.

Senate Democrats released their sweeping $3.5 trillion budget resolution on Monday -- the latest step in their drive to expand education, health care and child care support, tackle the climate crisis and make further investments in infrastructure.

Democratic Rep. Darren Soto of Florida, who is fully vaccinated, announced on Twitter Wednesday that he tested positive for Covid-19.

A pro-Chinese government online influence operation is targeting Americans in an effort to exploit divisions over the Covid-19 pandemic and "physically mobilize protestors in the US in response," according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant and experts at Google.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Wednesday that Congress would raise the debt ceiling, though she added it would not be done through reconciliation.

The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will hold oral arguments in its courtroom beginning next month, returning after more than a year of conference calls due to the Covid pandemic.

The Biden administration is adjusting guidance for Afghan children who arrived in the US without a parent to allow them to stay with the adult they traveled with, according to guidance obtained by CNN.

Divisions over what should be included in Democrats' massive reconciliation package are spilling into the open ahead of lawmakers' return to Capitol Hill, previewing the monumental fight and signaling just how fragile the execution of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda really is.

Abortion clinics and their allies are engaged in a game of Whac-A-Mole as they've obtained state court orders blocking individual anti-abortion activists from enforcing Texas' six-week abortion ban -- for now.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday slammed Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's "deep ignorance" on abortion after he defended the state's new six-week abortion ban earlier in the day.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- the only person in California history to win a gubernatorial race in a recall election -- is aggressively neutral on the one coming up on September 14.

President Joe Biden has a new and aggressive sales pitch for the ambitious domestic agenda that would define his place in history.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday rebuffed a demand from Sen. Joe Manchin to take a "strategic pause" on a $3.5 trillion economic package, making clear that she was moving on an aggressive timeline to push the measure through this month and setting up a clash with moderate Democrats eager to pare back the price tag.

A story went viral last week about Oklahoma hospitals and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug some Americans are taking to treat Covid-19 even though it is not approved or proven for that purpose.

As the US reached another major vaccine milestone -- more than 75% of adults have gotten at least one shot, according to the White House -- there's a growing question of how to deal with the unreachable vaccine opponents who won't get the shot no matter how dangerous that is for their families, neighbors and random people they meet.

Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, said he was briefly detained and questioned by Brazilian authorities in the country's capital on Tuesday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rebutted GOP claims that the Taliban is holding Americans "hostage" Tuesday, as uncertainty over the militant group's promises to let Americans leave Afghanistan continued to roil Washington and as the Taliban named members of a designated terror group to its interim government.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed the nation's most restrictive voting law on Tuesday, ending a saga that began in July when state House Democrats fled Texas in an attempt to stop the measure.