Alleged rioter Dustin Thompson took the stand in his trial on Wednesday and told a Washington, DC, jury that he believed he had received "presidential orders" to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Transgender women and girls in Kentucky will no longer be allowed to compete on sports teams consistent with their gender at public and private schools in the state after lawmakers on Wednesday overrode a veto from their Democratic governor to enact the restrictive measure.
Kentucky's GOP-controlled legislature on Wednesday overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of a broad abortion bill that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restricts access to medication abortion and makes it more difficult for a minor to obtain an abortion in the state.
For the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US is providing Kyiv with the types of high-power capabilities some Biden administration officials viewed as too much of an escalation risk a few short weeks ago.
Rep. Kai Kahele defended his part-time work as a commercial pilot for Hawaiian Airlines, saying the arrangement complies with House Ethics rules, and attributed his lengthy absence from the Capitol to the pandemic after questions arose about whether he was breaking any ethics rules for continuing his work with the airline.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the US was sending his nation an additional $800 million worth of weapons, ammunition and other security assistance.
President Joe Biden's declaration Tuesday that atrocities underway in Ukraine constitute a "genocide" is not expected to trigger any immediate changes to US policy toward the conflict, US officials familiar with the matter say.
A group of migrants bused from Texas arrived in Washington, DC, on Wednesday morning, after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he would send willing migrants to the capital in a rebuke of President Joe Biden's border policies.
US officials warned Wednesday that unnamed hackers have developed tools designed to "gain full system access" to the sensitive computer systems used to operate energy facilities.
A lawyer for Iowa Senate hopeful Abby Finkenauer urged the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to place her back on this year's Democratic primary ballot after a judge ruled Sunday night that she had fallen short of the state's signature requirements for qualification as a candidate.
The Justice Department has reached a settlement to settle four lawsuits by protesters who were forcibly cleared out of Washington's Lafayette Square during a racial justice protest outside the White House in 2020.
The Biden administration has cleared the way for the National Archives to provide a new tranche of documents to the committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection that former President Donald Trump initially had wanted to keep secret, a new letter from the Archives reveals.
Politico asked Mick Mulvaney, who served as chief of staff to then-President Donald Trump, who he believed had a chance to beat his former boss for the Republican nomination in 2024.
Democratic Party officials approved a plan Wednesday that will kick off the process that could determine which states will get to hold their presidential primaries first in 2024.
If former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal last summer, is going to attempt a political comeback in 2022, it will not be under the banner of the party he led for more than a decade.
Democrats running for reelection in the midterms are intensifying their fight against the Biden administration's decision to roll back a Trump-era immigration rule, going directly to the border and signing onto legislation that would block the Biden administration's actions in an escalation that could leave the party splintered on the issue before the midterms.
The US is expected to announce it is sending hundreds of millions of dollars in new military assistance to Ukraine soon, according to two sources familiar with the package.
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