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Tim Graham/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A bipartisan group of senators is within striking distance of a deal on a bill that would impose crippling sanctions on Russia for its hostilities against Ukrain...

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With gun violence on the rise in major cities across the country, including New York City, elected officials are scrambling to come up with s...

Michael Lee/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Days after two police officers were killed by a suspect using an illegal gun, President Joe Biden headed to New York City Thursday to meet with Mayor Eric Adams a...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Michigan, one of the nation's hottest political battlegrounds, is being hailed for a citizen-led effort to transform its famously gerrymandered election maps into some of the fai...

Brandon Bell/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Three of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump have tapped out early to announce they are not seeking reelection in 2022 ...

Michael Godek/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A bill introduced in Congress Wednesday by Democratic lawmakers seeks to end legacy admissions at many U.S. colleges and universities. The so-called Fair Coll...

Stephanie Kuykendal/Getty Images(ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va.) -- Former Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole -- a decorated World War II veteran and presidential candidate who served in Congress for 36 years -...

Zach Gibson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Judge J. Michelle Childs was scheduled to have her Senate confirmation hearing to be a federal appeals court judge on Tuesday -- just weeks after President Joe ...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the federal investigation into possible sex trafficking allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz continues, his campaign's fundraising has been dwindling. In ...

Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden began what he has said would be a bipartisan process to pick his Supreme Court nominee, hosting meetings at the White House on Tuesday amid ...