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(LOS ANGELES) -- Positive results on handling the pandemic, unfavorable views of the Republican Party and a turnout advantage among Democrats cemented Gov. Gavin Newsom's efforts to retain his se...

rarrarorro/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Senate Democrats on Tuesday introduced their latest version of a sweeping election reform bill to counter the record-number of voting restrictions that have passed in ...

Ray Tamarra/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., responded Monday night to backlash sparked by her controversial Met Gala gown emblazoned with the words "Tax the Rich,...

Bill Chizek/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision allowing Texas to effectively ban abortion across the state was &l...

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- Californians may be the only ones that can vote in Tuesday's recall election, but in his closing arguments for Gov. Gavin Newsom, President Jo...

AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP via Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- Voters who haven't already cast their ballots by mail head to the polls Tuesday to weigh in on whether they would like to recall California...

uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- In his first appearance on Capitol Hill since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced more than five hours of questions f...

Bill Chizek/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The lone abortion clinic in Mississippi is warning the U.S. Supreme Court that any move to undermine a half-century of legal precedent affirming aborti...

rena shield/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Amy Coney Barrett found common ground Monday over shared concern that the nation's highest court is...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- President Joe Biden on Monday was making his first visit to the West Coast as president, with plans to survey wildfire damage and push for action on com...