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A series of Democratic Senate candidates announced substantial fundraising hauls this week, putting each campaign in strong financial positions ahead of races that will be critical to the Biden administration's goals.

The White House is doubling down on vaccinations as the main focus of its strategy to fight Covid-19 as the Delta variant and undervaccinated clusters of Americans threaten the nation.

A federal judge blasted the DC jail Thursday for failing to get evidence to a Capitol riot defendant who has been in jail since January.

First lady Jill Biden's team is still assessing whether it's feasible for her to attend the Olympics in Tokyo after Japan's Olympics Committee announced all spectators will be banned from the venues of the Games in the host city and the nation declared a state of emergency in the city due to Covid-19.

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Loretta Smith and Wesley Hunt are members of different parties, separated by both distance and policy.

House Republicans are done pretending and aren't even trying to disguise their identity as the party of extremism, conservative media stunts and obstruction.

Texas Republicans are set to mount another push for restrictive new voting laws in their state as lawmakers on Thursday begin a 30-day special legislative session that Gov. Greg Abbott says he wants to see focused in part on "election integrity."

President Joe Biden will push Wednesday for "generational investments in human infrastructure" to expand the social safety net in remarks in Crystal Lake, Illinois, according to a White House official. 

A federal court judge on Wednesday denied a motion to stop the implementation of parts of Georgia's new voting law, ahead of state legislature runoff elections next week.

As they start the process of standing up a select committee to investigate security failings and circumstances surrounding the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol, House Democrats aim to use a strategy that avoids turning the investigation into a spectacle.

Audit fever is catching on as a Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that he is pushing for a so-called forensic audit of the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey in a Hail Mary move after being removed from their platforms. Trump also filed a class-action suit against YouTube, which names Sundar Pichai, the CEO of YouTube parent company Google, rather than YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo won't hesitate to make the hard ask. She wants to make that clear.

Rudy Giuliani's law license has been suspended in Washington, DC, after he temporarily lost his license in New York for pushing election lies and that state court system looks further into his case.

The Biden administration hosted the most senior Saudi official to arrive in Washington since the White House distanced itself earlier this year from the kingdom and its defacto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a visit that may signal yet another recalibration in the fraught relationship.

The remaining fencing around the US Capitol that was erected in the wake of the January 6 insurrection will start to come down as early as Friday, the US Capitol Police formally announced Wednesday.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the negligence of the United States government was mostly responsible for the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent history.

John Jerome White was 19 years old when a Georgia judge sentenced him to life plus 40 years in prison for breaking into a 74-year-old woman's home and raping her. Exonerated after DNA testing years later, he walked free in a state that does not have laws on the books to compensate the wrongfully convicted upon their release from prison.