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Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, on Saturday reiterated his belief that the natural origins theory of the novel coronavirus is still the most likely.

Illinois this week became the first state in the nation to ban law enforcement from using deceptive tactics when interrogating minors.

A federal judge in Texas dealt a searing blow to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Friday, casting their lives once again into legal limbo while underscoring the devastating human cost of Congress' inability to act.

A report by a Senate committee found that a little-known security unit within the Department of Commerce abused its power and oftentimes monitored employees of color without any evidence of wrongdoing.

Senate Democrats are making one of the largest pushes to date for decriminalizing marijuana on the federal level. The bill is likely to fail because of Republican opposition.

With new vaccinations dwindling and Covid-19 cases going up across the US, CNN's Michael Smerconish asks why won't former President Trump is not stepping up help bridge the vaccine's political divide.

A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful. The decision, by US District Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas, injected uncertainty into the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, as well as their families.

The head of a key congressional committee overseeing the aviation industry is pushing six US airlines to explain worker shortages, flight cancellations and delays after the government supplied billions in federal aid to the airline industry amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

In one of next year's most consequential Senate races, the Republican primary to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona is turning on a question: Who won the 2020 presidential election?

A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program shielding certain undocumented immigrants from deportation, is illegal and blocked new applicants.

Former Vice President Mike Pence crisscrossed Iowa on Friday, assailing President Joe Biden's administration for unleashing "a tidal wave of left-wing policies that threaten to wipe out all the progress that we made" in speeches that could preview his potential 2024 message.

Federal authorities have arrested two men in California who allegedly wanted to start a movement to overthrow the government and discussed blowing up the Democratic headquarters in Sacramento because of the 2020 election, according to a Justice Department press release.

The family of Trevor Reed, an American detained in Russia, said Friday that he is being transferred from Moscow to a Russian prison camp but that they do not know where he is going or when he will get there.

Former President Donald Trump made his return to campaign politics last month by trekking to northern Ohio to take revenge on one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him: Rep. Anthony Gonzalez.

Senior Biden administration officials overseeing an intelligence review into the origins of the coronavirus now believe the theory that the virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it emerged naturally in the wild -- a dramatic shift from a year ago, when Democrats publicly downplayed the so-called lab leak theory.

New York prosecutors have continued to pressure top Trump Organization executive Matthew Calamari to cooperate since charging the company and its chief financial officer earlier this month, according to a person familiar with the matter -- the latest sign that the inquiry is continuing.

President Joe Biden's senior adviser for migration, Amy Pope, is leaving her position, according to the White House.

California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner defended her travel out of state on Friday -- insisting that she is not pausing or suspending her campaign -- after an Australian publication reported that she is in Australia filming "Celebrity Big Brother."

Sen. Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat who is running for a second term next year, has been working behind the scenes to help craft a bipartisan infrastructure deal that could be popular in her swing state.

Some of the country's biggest corporations have resumed political giving to the Republicans who objected to certifying Joe Biden's White House victory -- underscoring the fleeting nature of their well-publicized donation boycotts, along with their growing interest in swaying policy on Capitol Hill.