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Supreme Court says Maine cannot bar religious schools from state tuition program
Brandon Bell/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state of Maine must allow parents who receive taxpayer-funded tuition assistance payments to use them at religious sch...
Jun 21, 2022
Jan. 6 hearing live updates: Trump's pressure campaign on state election officials
Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol holds another hearing Tuesday at 1 p.m. on the pressure campaign it says for...
Jun 21, 2022
Senators agree on draft of gun violence bill after snags on abortion, 'red flags,' more
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, the top Democratic negotiator on a pending package to address gun violence, told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that a ...
Jun 21, 2022
Louisiana governor signs abortion bills imposing criminal penalties on providers
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed two abortion bills into law Tuesday that ban most abortions in the state and criminalize pro...
Jun 21, 2022
Trump's pressure campaign on state election officials is focus of Jan. 6 hearing Tuesday
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House Jan. 6 committee's Tuesday hearing will focus on what it says was then-President Donald Trump's "unprecedented" effort to push ke...
Jun 21, 2022
What to know with a Virginia primary and runoffs in Alabama and Georgia
John Baggaley/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Tuesday's primaries include only Virginia and Washington, D.C., as regularly scheduled elections -- but the day will also feature some contested, Trump-involv...
Jun 21, 2022
Kamala Harris surprises children at African American history museum for Juneteenth
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff made a surprise visit to schoolchildren at the National Museum of African A...
Jun 20, 2022
Clock is ticking on the Senate's gun deal: Negotiators stuck on two issues as recess looms
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The clock is ticking for Senate negotiators working to reach a final agreement on an anti-gun violence package before the Fourth of July rec...
Jun 20, 2022
Biden may soon back a gas tax holiday -- plus rebate cards -- to address pain at the pump
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As top White House officials reiterate that tackling high inflation remains President Joe Biden's chief priority, his administration is deba...
Jun 20, 2022
For these Black activists, abortion isn't just a woman's issue. It's about race, too
Anne Flaherty/ABC News(ATLANTA) -- Buried in the data about the nation's abortion debate is an uncomfortable truth: A disproportionate number of women seeking to end their pregnancies are Black. Accor...
Jun 20, 2022
