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Politics & Elections
JOHN HANNA and MARGARET STAFFORD, Associated Press
Kansas voters have sent a resounding message about their desire to protect abortion rights by rejecting a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten abortion restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting leaders in Taiwan despite warnings from China, said Wednesday that she and other members of Congress in a visiting delegation are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island. “Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy,” she said in a short […]
The Senate has given final approval to a bill enhancing health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Senate Democrats announced a deal on a $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act that aims to reduce inflation by paying down the national debt, lowering energy costs and extending affordable healthcare coverage for millions of Americans.
An expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania has survived a legal challenge brought by some of the same Republican representatives who voted for the legislation three years ago.
The Senate approved a House-passed bill that would expand disability benefits to public safety officers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following traumatic events.
The Biden administration filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Idaho for restricting access to abortion to patients who need lifesaving medical treatment.
Top congressional Democrats have requested sit-down interviews and internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general as part of a deepening investigation into the agency's handling of now-deleted Secret Service text messages surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Malaysia and is expected to visit Taiwan, escalating tensions with Beijing, which claims the self-ruled island as its own territory.
For weeks, access to abortion in Louisiana has been flickering, with the state’s three clinics relying on rulings and temporary restraining orders that allowed them to continue operations.
Comedian Jon Stewart and veterans' advocates called on senators to stay overnight to pass a stalled bill for health care access for military veterans who became ill after exposure to toxic burn pits.
An unexpected deal reached by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the United States to address global warming and could help President Joe Biden come close to meeting his pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama at the White House later this fall for the unveiling of their White House portraits, according to an Obama spokesperson and the White House.
A research organization won’t hold its planned conference in Salt Lake City later this year because of Utah laws banning most abortions and barring transgender girls from school sports.
The House has passed a $280 billion package to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the United States and help it better compete with international rivals, namely China.
Populations of the iconic orange-and-black monarch butterfly have plummeted over recent decades because of habitat loss, pesticides and herbicides, and climate change.
A North Dakota judge has put on hold the state’s trigger law banning abortion pending the resolution of a lawsuit that the law violates the state constitution.
