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Sean Hannon/iStock(TEXAS) -- Three months and two special sessions after Texas House Democrats engaged in the first of three quorum breaks over the Republican-backed legislative priority of "elec...

AndreyPopov/iStock (WASHINGTON) -- After the Biden administration finished one of the largest airlifts in the nation's history Aug. 30, organizations tasked with helping Afghans arriving in the U...

rarrarorro/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a statement Monday on the new near-total abortion ban in Texas saying violence against people seeking reproductive ca...

ABC's This Week(WASHINGTON) -- Faced with new opposition to his domestic agenda from a key Democratic senator, one of President Joe Biden's top advisers said the White House is "still full steam ...

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom has just nine days left to convince Californians that he deserves to keep his job. Now, some of the biggest Democrats nationally...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After touring storm damage from Hurricane Ida in Louisiana on Friday, President Joe Biden will travel to the Northeast next, the White House said. Biden wi...

Pete Buttigieg/Twitter(WASHINGTON) -- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who made history as the first openly gay Cabinet member to be confirmed by the Senate, and husband Chasten Buttigieg...

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House will vote in late September to protect abortion rights, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said this week, after the Supreme Court rejected ...

Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Arizona man seen sporting a Viking helmet and fur vest during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty Friday to one felon...

akinbostanci/iStock(AUSTIN, Texas) -- A website seeking anonymous tips on people violating Texas' new law restricting abortions has been inundated with spam after viral calls from social media users. ...