Politics

Georgia’s Republican governor has stepped up his attack on Major League Baseball’s decision to pull this summer’s All-Star Game from the state in response to a sweeping new voting law

New details from the deadly riot of Jan. 6 are in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use.

The Senate filibuster is coming under fresh scrutiny

Former President Donald Trump insists he’s enjoying his life off Twitter

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has vetoed a measure that would prevent juveniles charged as adults from being sentenced to life in prison without parole

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has vetoed three police reform measures passed by the Democrat-controlled General Assembly

Jacobson’s departure is “consistent with her commitment at the outset to serve in the administration’s first 100 days,” the White House said.

The House Ethics Committee has announced an investigation into Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz

President Joe Biden has released a $1.5 trillion wish list for his first federal budget

Democrats in Congress are trying to pass the first major gun control legislation in more than two decades with the support of President Joe Biden

President Joe Biden is ordering a half-dozen executive actions aimed at addressing what he calls an “epidemic and an international embarrassment” of gun violence in America

U.S. intelligence officials are painting a dark picture of the world’s future, saying the coronavirus pandemic has deepened economic inequality, strained government resources and fanned nationalist sentiments

U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is backing Terry McAuliffe in the race to succeed him, handing his predecessor one of the contest’s most coveted endorsements

Federal investigators are looking into Rep. Matt Gaetz’s travel to the Bahamas with women and specifically whether those women were paid to travel for sex, which could violate federal law, a law enforcement official and another person familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Lawyers tasked with reuniting migrant families separated during the Trump administration said in a federal court filing late Wednesday that they have recently contacted the parents of 61 more children, NBC News reports.

Texas child welfare officials said Wednesday they received three reports alleging abuse and neglect at a San Antonio coliseum that is holding more than 1,600 immigrant teenagers who crossed the southern border.

President Joe Biden will unveil a series of executive actions aimed at addressing gun violence on Thursday, delivering his first major action on gun control since taking office.

Fairfax accused former Gov. Terry McAuliffe of denying him due process in immediately calling for his resignation when the allegations surfaced.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has a book deal

The Biden administration is drilling down on the argument that higher corporate tax rates would ultimately help an ailing economy

Jill Biden is bringing a new focus to the cause of supporting America’s military families

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is currently under federal investigation for possible sex crimes, asked for a pardon from then-President Donald Trump before he left the White House, according to a New York Times report.

St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones, who has been outspoken in her criticism of the criminal justice system’s “arrest and incarcerate” model, will take over leadership of a city in the midst of yet another wave of violent crime after winning election as mayor on Tuesday

A leading human rights expert who is taking over leadership at Amnesty International is tackling vaccine equity as one of the major issues confronting the world today

Arkansas lawmakers have made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor’s objections

The 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing are due to take place between Feb. 4 and Feb. 20.

The Education Department announced plans Tuesday to hold a public hearing on how schools ought to handle sexual misconduct cases as the first step in a planned overhaul of Title IX regulations. In a letter released by the Education Department, the hearing is described as a chance for students, parents, school officials and advocates to weigh i...

The Office of Special Counsel said former HUD official Lynne Patton had misused her position to help the Trump campaign.

Israel’s president has handed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the difficult task of trying to form a new government

Officials from five world powers have begun a new effort to try to bring the United States back into the foundering 2015 nuclear deal they signed with Iran

Arkansas’ governor has vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments for transgender youth, though lawmakers could enact the restriction over his objections.

A group of eight Republican state legislators sent a letter to the president of the Georgia Beverage Association over the weekend asking to have Coca-Cola products removed from their offices after the company’s CEO criticized the state’s controversial new voting law, NBC News reports.

Embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz says he will not resign from Congress

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday that he wouldn’t throw the ceremonial first pitch as planned at the Texas Rangers’ home opener, citing Major League Baseball’s decision to move the MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was briefly suspended from Twitter Sunday in what the platform called an error

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing him to potentially hold power until 2036, a move that formalizes constitutional changes endorsed in last year’s popular vote

With an appeal to think big, President Joe Biden is promoting his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan directly to Americans

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was back in court for his corruption trial on Monday as the country’s political parties were set to weigh in on whether he should form the next government after a closely divided election or step down to focus on his legal woes.

Two months into his job, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is forging a fresh path for his Cabinet role and in his life that could bridge gaps with Republicans when it comes to President Joe Biden’s agenda

Liberal activists are stepping up calls on corporate America to denounce Republican efforts to tighten state voting laws.

President Joe Biden’s vision of his presidency is quickly taking shape.

The political peril is deepening for conservative Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz

About 25 million Americans will be eligible for more money in food assistance under new guidelines from the Biden administration

Immigrants with Temporary Protected Status are pinning their hopes on an immigration overhaul bill making its way through Congress

The sweeping rewrite of Georgia’s election rules that was signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp represents the first big set of changes since former President Donald Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of fraud following his presidential loss to Joe Biden

Reporters traveling with first lady Jill Biden got an April Fools’ Day surprise on their flight back from California to Washington on Thursday.

The ranks of big corporations now criticizing GOP efforts to restrict voting access are spreading to Texas.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged his fellow Republicans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 during a visit to a hospital in western Kentucky

President Joe Biden’s first Cabinet meeting looked and felt different from those held by his predecessor

President Biden has asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to prepare a memo on the president’s legal authority to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt.

The Biden administration is unveiling a coalition of community, religious and celebrity partners to promote COVID-19 shots as it seeks to overcome vaccine hesitancy

President Joe Biden tells ESPN it was a mistake for the Texas Rangers to allow full capacity at their ballpark for their first game.

Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or sometimes without any paperwork at all

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a prominent conservative who has been under federal investigation for a former relationship, would lose his House seat if convicted of a felony.

President Joe Biden says his proposal for an aggressive series of infrastructure investments would require $2.3 trillion in spending over eight years but could create millions of jobs.

Some of Georgia’s most prominent corporate leaders are beginning to more forcefully criticize the state’s sweeping new election law.

A defeated Democrat has abruptly dropped her bid to overturn her six-vote loss for a House seat from Iowa, abandoning what loomed as a long legal and political battle in the face of shaky support from her own party

Maryland’s $3.9 billion in federal pandemic relief will be used to shore up the state’s unemployment insurance fund, support state recovery efforts, reopen schools and invest in broadband technology

In the 40-page complaint filed in D.C. federal court on Tuesday, lawyers for officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby accuse Trump of directing the assault and aiding and abetting the actions of the rioters.

The move is part of President Biden’s broader effort to restore morale and scientific integrity at the EPA after Trump’s consistent dismissal of human-caused climate change.

A defense attorney says FBI agents recruited a Proud Boys leader to provide them with information about anti-fascist activists several months before he was charged with joining other members of the far-right extremist group in storming the U.S. Capitol

President Joe Biden has outlined a huge $2.3 trillion plan to reengineer the nation’s infrastructure over the next eight years

The Biden administration for the first time has allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children. A tour Tuesday revealed a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 migrants were crammed into a space intended for 250 and the youngest ones are kept in a large playpen with mats on the floor for sleep...

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a prominent conservative representing Florida in Congress and a close ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday he is being investigated by the Justice Department over a former relationship but denied any criminal wrongdoing.

President Joe Biden’s pleas for states to stick with mask mandates to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being largely ignored.

In a sharp rebuke to Trump-era policies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has formally scrapped a blueprint championed by his predecessor to limit U.S. promotion of human rights abroad to causes favored by conservatives like religious freedom

The White House announced Tuesday new initiatives to address anti-Asian violence amid fresh attention to the rise of attacks against Asian Americans after a shooting earlier this month in Atlanta left six women of Asian descent dead. President Joe Biden will reinstate and expand the scope of the White House Initiative ...

President Joe Biden has announced his first slate of judicial nominees

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his first slate of federal judicial nominees, a diverse group that aims to have the federal bench “reflect the full diversity of the American people — both in background and in professional experience,” the White House said.

Global leaders have jointly called for a pandemic treaty, although the U.S. and China are missing from the list.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have paid tribute at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to mark the 48th anniversary of the departure of the last U.S. combat troops from the war zone.

President Joe Biden is set to unveil the first part of his sweeping multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plan, aiming for passage over the summer.

“We’re giving up hard-fought, hard-won gains,” President Joe Biden said on Monday.

President Joe Biden announced Monday that 90% of U.S. adults will be eligible to get a coronavirus vaccine by April 19 and will also have a vaccination site within five miles of their homes by that date.

U.S. officials discovered last December that federal agencies had fallen victim to a cyberespionage effort pulled off largely through a hack of SolarWinds software

A bipartisan group of Wisconsin lawmakers proposed a new kind of election system for Congressional races on Friday, arguing that the state’s existing system exacerbates partisanship and discourages compromise, NBC News reports.

Biden will separate his sprawling plan to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure into two separate pieces that he will unveil weeks apart.

In one of Mexico’s most notorious cities for organized crime, migrants are expelled from the United States throughout the night

In addition to their nationwide efforts to restrict voting access, Republican lawmakers in some key states are seeking greater control over the local mechanics of elections, from voter registration to certifying results

The Biden administration is not requiring FBI fingerprint background checks of caregivers at its rapidly expanding network of emergency sites to hold thousands of immigrant teenagers

For decades, the job of a vice president was to try to stay relevant, to avoid being viewed, in the words of one occupant of the post, as “standby equipment.”

Authorities suggested for weeks in court hearings and papers that members of the Oath Keepers militia group planned their attack on the Capitol in advance in an effort to block the peaceful transition of power.

President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration

A GOP lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump on his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results is now playing a central role coordinating the Republican effort to tighten voting laws around the country

Democrats are seizing on new voting restrictions in Georgia to focus attention on the fight to overhaul federal election laws

“This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” Biden said in a statement.

Arkansas’ Republican governor has signed a law banning transgender women and girls from competing in school sports teams consistent with their gender identity

U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah has been named this year’s recipient of the John F

Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed that the voting company rigged the 2020 election in an effort to boost faltering ratings

Georgia state troopers arrested Democratic state Rep. Park Cannon on Thursday after she knocked on Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s statehouse office door as he signed a controversial elections bill into law in a closed-door ceremony, NBC News reports.

Joe Biden has held his first formal news conference as president and an AP Fact Check looks at his remarks.

President Joe Biden isn’t ruling out the possibility of U.S. troops staying in Afghanistan through the end of the year.