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Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden was set to speak to the nation Friday afternoon on what the White House said are U.S. efforts to ease tensions over Ukrain...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A Washington, D.C., judge on Thursday set a September trial date for a case brought by the D.C. attorney general against former President Trump's 2017 inau...

Samuel Corum/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Senators narrowly avoided a government shutdown Thursday evening, passing a short-term funding bill one day before funds were set to lapse. The bill, which con...

Zach Gibson - Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children must testify in the investigation by the New York state attorney general i...

J.Castro/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republican lawmakers, capitalizing on the growing national pushback on COVID-19 precautions, are amping up their efforts to implement a return to "normalcy," propo...

5./15 WEST/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Legislators on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting children from the potentially harmful impacts of social media. The bill, sponsored by S...

Sky Noir Photography by Bill Dickinson/Getty Images(RICHMOND, Va.) -- Virginia's newly elected Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a law Wednesday that ends mask mandates in public schools throughou...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Ken Kurson, the former editor of the New York Observer who was pardoned by then-President Donald Trump before he left office, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two state-level misdemea...

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden has rejected another of former President Donald Trump's executive privilege claims, deciding that Trump White House visitor logs should be han...

Morsa Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the midterm primary season approaches, several Republicans running for state or national office are either refusing to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination s...