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ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said he regrets signing an April law banning mask mandates and is seeking to reverse it as coronavirus infections soar among unv...

iStock/Eloi_Omella(NEW YORK) -- As New York City turns to vaccine passports to help limit the spread of COVID-19, other cities have pushed back against similar measures, with leaders citing a wide ran...

iStock/NYP4172 (NEW YORK) -- Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing further scrutiny after the New York attorney general's office concluded he violated state and federal law in sexually harassing at lea...

iStock/eggeeggjiew(WASHINGTON) -- Late last month Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, raised eyebrows around the country when she claimed that a reporter's question about her COVID-19 ...

iStock/CapuskiThe TAKE with Rick Klein Debates over masks and mandates might make it seem like 2020. It might also well be a taste of 2024. President Joe Biden's admonition that lawmakers who are bloc...

iStock/valentinrussanov(WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is expected to announce his recommendation to President Joe Biden that COVID-19 vaccines be made mandatory for troops, official...

iStock/Marc Wiegelmann(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration will announce a set of actions on Thursday intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution from cars and trucks, reducing plane...

iStock/AlbertPego(WASHINGTON) -- At the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, when offices and restaurants began shuttering, the federal government scrambled to keep small businesses afloat -- ultimately spe...

iStock/Douglas Rissing(WASHINGTON) -- Donald Trump may be out of office, but political donor money continues to pour into his properties across the country. In just the first six months of this year, ...

uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- For the first time in 50 years, a Senate committee has voted to repeal decades-old war powers measures that twice launched the U.S. into war with Iraq, giving a green li...