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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been advancing the White House’s judicial candidates with single-minded focus. Two hundred have been confirmed.

The high court’s action will keep the documents out of congressional hands at least until the case is resolved, which is not likely to happen before 2021.

Amidst the weeks of protests, an old conversation has gained new traction: what do we do with our monuments to slaveholders and other problematic historical figures?

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery prompted calls for the state to pass a hate crimes law. Until Friday, Georgia had been one of just four states without one on the books.

Later this year the high court will hear a case that seeks to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act. In a court filing Thursday, the Trump administration supported it.

Delaware senators gave near-unanimous support to the $4.55 billion budget, but debate on two other spending bills proved much more contentious.

Gessen has spent years studying the totalitarianism of Putin, and their new book provides analyses that could help citizens of other nations, including the U.S.

A clash of deep-pocketed lobbying interests and concerns from some rank-and-file Republican lawmakers might stall the effort, though it will probably return in the fall.

The committee pressed the health officials for details on why the response has not been more effective and whether Trump prevented health experts from taking action sooner.

July 3 is the target city officials are hoping for, with some operations allowed earlier on June 26.

A lawsuit filed in 2014 by residents and businesses in Fort Lee is progressing after being on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court last month tossed two related convictions.

We discuss the Democratic leadership's police reform bill, their reaction to calls to defund the police, the Republican proposals, Joe Biden's police reform op-ed, and more.

Wang, a naturalized U.S. citizen and graduate student at Princeton University, was released in a prisoner exchange between the two countries.

"If cities like Allentown begin to crumble, that’s how America crumbles."

“We’re missing the whole point of this,” said Wolf. “We’re trying to stay safe from a virus that is bent on infecting as many people as it can.”