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matejphoto/Getty Images(RALEIGH, N.C.)-- North Carolina legislators have introduced a new abortion bill that would ban the procedure after 12 weeks. Republican leaders announced in a news co...

Creativeye99/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A judge has denied Montana state legislator Zooey Zephyr’s motion to have her legislative privileges and duties reinstated after being censured by House Re...

Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Censures and expulsions in some state legislatures have become a growing consequence of the intensifying culture wars across the country. In Mo...

Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer believes California Sen. Dianne Feinstein may return to Capitol Hill as soon as next week af...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Rapper Fat Joe wasn't in Washington D.C., last week for a concert, he came to lobby Congress to call for transparency in hospital billing due to the staggering amount of m...

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Democratic leadership has been working behind the scenes on a long shot plan that could allow their party to go around Speaker Kevin McCarthy and force...

Tom Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Supreme Court ethics and questions surrounding the conduct of Justice Clarence Thomas were on full display Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Comm...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday gave his first public response to an IRS supervisor-turned-whistleblower who claimed to have information fo...

Samuel Corum/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday focused on protecting children online and holding social media com...

John Moore/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Defense plans to send 1,500 additional active-duty troops to support the security mission along the U.S.-Mexico border for a temporary thr...