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Tim Graham/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A major effort to combat climate change -- reducing methane emissions -- is now underway as $1.15 billion flows to states to help close unused oil and gas wells ...

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- Speaking just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on him to be a "leader for peace," President Joe Biden on Wednesday i...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Vice President Kamala Harris is set to announce that historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) will be eligible for new grant funding following ...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- On her 18th birthday, just days into her freshman year at Harvard in 1988, Ketanji Brown Jackson says she broke down in tears on the university library step...

Michael Godek/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is not planning to issue subpoenas to members of Congress who are alleged to have info...

Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a senior U.S. ...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic Women's Caucus gathered Tuesday morning to highlight the gender pay gap on Equal Pay Day. "They call this E...

Jason Connolly/Pool/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the vice president's office. "Earlier t...

Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a historic, virtual address to Congress on Wednesday to plead with the U.S. to do more to h...

Mark Miller Photos/Getty Images(BOISE, Idaho) -- A bill that seeks to prevent most abortions from occurring in Idaho has just passed in the state legislature and is heading to the governor's desk. The...