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Senate Republicans are expected to block on Thursday a bill creating a commission to investigate the pro-Trump riot at the US Capitol on January 6, which left five dead and about 140 police officers injured.

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan is set to criticize former President Donald Trump and his hold on the Republican Party during a speech Thursday night, according to excerpts obtained by CNN.

Documents due in DC Superior Court on Friday could clear the way for the Trump Organization's chief financial officer to be deposed as part of a DC attorney general lawsuit that alleges former President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee abused non-profit funds.

Lawmakers in Louisiana sent a bill that would prohibit transgender girls and women in the state from competing on girls' and womens' public elementary, secondary and college sports teams to the state's Democratic governor on Thursday, who will likely issue a veto of the measure, which he previously called "unnecessary and discriminatory."

The Biden administration will not seek to reenter the Open Skies Treaty with Russia in response to that country's "failure to take any actions to return to compliance," a State Department spokesperson said Thursday.

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether some Ukrainian officials helped execute a sweeping plan to meddle in the 2020 US election, people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times.

Babak Namazi, whose brother and father are detained in Iran, is living in fear that his family members could be left behind again as the Biden administration is engaged in a diplomatic effort to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.

The Justice Department is taking six immediate steps to improve its efforts to combat the spike in hate crimes, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in a memo to department employees Thursday, including expanding access to different languages.

Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin issued an executive order on Thursday banning mask mandates while Gov. Brad Little was unaware and out of town.

The top Republican in Wisconsin's state Assembly is hiring retired police officers to investigate November's election, joining a growing list of presidential battlegrounds where GOP state officials are looking for evidence to support former President Donald Trump's lies about widespread voter fraud.

The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning that events associated with the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre could be targets for racial violence, according to a source familiar with the warning.

A group of former Homeland Security secretaries who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations is calling on the Senate "to put politics aside" and create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, according to a joint statement provided first to CNN.

President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Republican lawmakers who have touted parts of the Covid-19 economic relief law that benefit their constituents despite having voted against the law, saying: "Some people have no shame."

The American Civil Liberties Union is urging the Biden administration to provide Covid-19 vaccine access to immigrants in detention, citing the rapid spread of coronavirus in congregate settings, according to a letter sent the Department of Homeland Security and obtained by CNN.

In the last 24 hours, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has ramped up the pressure on his GOP Senate colleagues to oppose a bill creating a January 6 commission, according to two Republicans familiar with his effort.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a rare statement Thursday, publicizing the progress of the intelligence community's investigation into the origins of Covid-19 as pressure mounts on the Biden administration to get answers.

The Senate advanced bipartisan legislation that would counter China's growing influence by investing over $200 billion in American technology, science and research, after marathon negotiations Thursday.

One of President Joe Biden's closest advisers is rallying allies to embrace White House proposals that have come under sharp criticism from Republicans as the President moves to put the spotlight back on his sweeping economic agenda Thursday.

The self-proclaimed leader of the "Maga Caravan," which led dozens of vehicles to Washington, DC, to a rally held by former President Donald Trump, was charged with allegedly being one of the first insurrectionists to assault law enforcement at the US Capitol, the Justice Department announced.

The midterm elections are still 18 months away, but the fight for control of the Senate is already shaping what gets done in the nation's capital this year.