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In President Joe Biden's America, there are shades of gray between red and blue.

Video shot on January 6 captures a US Capitol rioter with a lengthy criminal history heckling police with a bullhorn and spraying an unknown substance toward them.

White House aides prepared a draft proclamation last June to invoke the Insurrection Act as then-President Donald Trump debated deploying active-duty US soldiers in response to protests after the death of George Floyd, The New York Times reported Friday, citing two senior Trump administration officials.

Indiana must continue paying pandemic unemployment benefits to roughly 230,000 Hoosiers until a lawsuit challenging the early termination of the compensation is decided, a state judge ruled Friday.

In the key battleground state of Arizona, Republican legislators this week moved to weaken the authority of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, by limiting her ability to defend election lawsuits.

GOP opposition is hardening over a massive infrastructure plan and a revamp of policing laws, scrambling the prospects of two of President Joe Biden's top domestic priorities at a crucial juncture on Capitol Hill.

The US intelligence community on Friday released its long-awaited report on what it knows about a series of mysterious flying objects that have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the last several decades.

DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was badly injured on January 6 and initially requested a meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy last month, told CNN he has secured a meeting with the GOP Leader for Friday afternoon.

President Joe Biden said on Friday that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin's 22-year sentence for the murder of George Floyd "seems to be appropriate" after being informed of the decision by reporters.

President Joe Biden meets Afghanistan's leaders at the White House on Friday at a precarious moment for their country: US troops are withdrawing, the coronavirus is raging, the Taliban are making territorial gains and American intelligence assesses the government they run could fall in a matter of months.

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit El Paso, Texas, on Friday to visit a migrant processing center, following dogged criticism for not having visited the US-Mexico border and a rocky first foreign trip to Guatemala and Mexico earlier this month.

Three whistleblowers are urging the Biden administration to do more to vaccinate immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention amid mounting criticism over the agency's response to the pandemic within its facilities, according to a letter obtained by CNN.

President Joe Biden will name Jessica Stern as the US Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Friday, according to a White House official.

The Justice Department is suing Georgia over the state's new voting restrictions -- and handing Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who signed the changes into law earlier this year, a potential political boost ahead of his reelection bid.

The Justice Department announced on Friday that it is launching a task force to address the rise in threats against election officials, according to a memo sent to all federal prosecutors and the FBI.

The Justice Department plans to announce a lawsuit Friday against Georgia over new voting restrictions, according to people briefed on the matter.