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Melania Trump gives first post-White House interview: On her critics, volunteer work, more
Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In her first sit-down interview since leaving Washington, Melania Trump appeared on Fox News on Sunday where she addressed some of her ongoin...
May 16, 2022
Supreme Court strikes campaign finance rule in win for Sen. Ted Cruz
Grant Faint/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court's conservative majority Monday struck down a 20-year-old campaign finance limit aimed at curbing corruption in politics, delivering a win to R...
May 16, 2022
In wake of Buffalo shooting, Liz Cheney says House GOP leaders 'enabled white nationalism'
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Top Republicans in the House of Representatives are facing new scrutiny as critics, including within their own party, contend they failed to condemn the same r...
May 16, 2022
Buffalo gunman was 'armed with weapons of war and hate-filled soul': Biden
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The gunman who opened fire on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in what authorities described as a "racially-motivated attack" has a "hate-filled...
May 16, 2022
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he suffered 'minor stroke,' is hospitalized
Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., was hospitalized this weekend after suffering a minor stroke, he said Sunday. He was admitted to George Washington Universit...
May 16, 2022
John Fetterman, candidate in Pennsylvania Senate race, suffered stroke Friday
Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Pennsylvania's Lt. Gov John Fetterman, the leading Democratic candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race, said Sunday that he suffered a strok...
May 16, 2022
Pelosi calls for 'balance' between free speech and safety after Buffalo shooting
Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that social media companies have to address and track down extremism on their platforms, after a gunman wh...
May 15, 2022
Hundreds of pro-abortion rights protests planned Saturday in response to SCOTUS leak
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Hundreds of pro-abortion rights protests are planned nationwide Saturday in the wake of a bombshell leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that ind...
May 14, 2022
Jen Psaki's emotional farewell as White House press secretary
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki delivered an emotional farewell from the briefing room podium Friday afternoon -- expressing thanks to Pre...
May 13, 2022
GOP-led states, Biden administration argue over lifting Title 42 border policy on May 23
Brandon Bell/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Justice Department lawyers and attorneys representing a coalition of GOP-led states were in court on Friday to again trade jabs about whether the Biden ad...
May 13, 2022
