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The House on Thursday passed legislation that would extend existing civil rights law to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics.

After the Supreme Court allowed the transfer to Manhattan DA Cy Vance, Trump accused the prosecutor of pursuing a “fishing expedition.”

Defamation cases against Trump backers by voting systems makers Dominion and Smartmatic are credible, legal experts said.

Perdue’s announcement abruptly ended speculation he stoked just one week earlier about a potential challenge to Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Merrick Garland pledged Monday to pursue a robust investigation into the leaders of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearings start Monday. The Senate could confirm Biden’s attorney general pick by March.

Democrats in Congress introduced a sweeping immigration bill backed by President Joe Biden on Thursday.

The 97-year-old former U.S. senator and presidential candidate announced that he was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.

Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure from civil rights groups and liberal members of Congress to fulfill his pledge to end the death penalty.

President Joe Biden is promising a majority of elementary schools will be open five days a week by the end of his first 100 days in office.

David Perdue, the former Georgia senator, says he’s considering a run against Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2022.

Republicans who voted to convict Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 riot in the Capitol are now facing heat from conservatives in their home states.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scalding denunciation of Donald Trump in a speech Saturday from the Senate floor, calling the former president “morally responsible” for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

Trump “is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said just after the Senate acquitted the former president.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and former President Donald Trump got into an expletive-laden argument on a phone call as the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was still unfolding, three sources briefed on the matter told NBC News on Friday. As throngs of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol during the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College win, which resulted in the…

Mike Pompeo’s Madison Dinners had elite guest lists and raised questions about whether he was using the soirees to cultivate his political ambitions.

The Department of Justice notified the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it no longer considers Obamacare to be unconstitutional.

Fox wants a New York state court to drop a $2.7 billion suit against it filed by the voting machine supplier Smartmatic.

Democrats unveiled a plan to boost the Child Tax Credit, a temporary program that could lift millions of children from poverty.

Shelby is the longest-serving U.S. senator from Alabama. His retirement complicates GOP plans to retake the upper chamber of Congress next year.