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iStock/Joel Carillet (TEXAS) -- Just one week after a law took effect in Texas that bans nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, the state is close to enacting another restriction on aborti...

iStock/Vichinterlang(TEXAS) -- Texas' new abortion ban is notable for several reasons -- chief among them how it is enforced. The statute, which is the most restrictive abortion law in the country, ba...

Ethan Miller/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar revealed Thursday that seven months ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer and is now cancer-free after a lumpectomy and one cours...

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden is set to speak to the nation Thursday at 5 p.m. to lay out what the White House said is a new six-part strategy to combat...

DNY59/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department is expected to file suit against the state of Texas in the coming days challenging its restrictive law against abortions, a source familiar with the ...

OlegAlbinksy/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The White House on Wednesday asked all 18 of former President Donald Trump’s appointees to the boards of the nation's military academies, including former advi...

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) -- With six days to go until ballots are due, Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the Bay Area Wednesday afternoon to stump for Democra...

iStock/christophe_cerisier (AFGHANISTAN) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called on the Taliban to allow chartered aircraft to depart Afghanistan with Americans and Afghans ready to b...

iStock/gguy44 (TEXAS) -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is under fire for comments he made about rape and the state's new near-total abortion ban that critics say defied realities of both rape and reproductio...

iStock/drnadig (WASHINGTON) -- The FBI on Wednesday released new video from its investigation into the still-unidentified suspect who allegedly planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democ...