President Joe Biden on Friday will host an event at the White House to mark the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
The jury deliberating the fate of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appears to have reached verdicts on some counts.
A leader of the Proud Boys pleaded guilty on Friday to two felony charges in one of the most prominent criminal cases against an organized far-right group that participated in the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.
It's impossible to overstate how joyously layered this moment is. On Thursday, Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the US Supreme Court, after a bipartisan group of senators voted earlier this week to advance her nomination.
Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ed Markey on Thursday said they're optimistic that members of their party can still come together in the Senate to strike a deal on a climate and economic tax package this year.
The top US military general this week endorsed creating permanent US bases in Eastern Europe as a response to Russia's attack on Ukraine, saying that American bases on NATO's eastern flank would act as a deterrent to Moscow.
The succession of Ketanji Brown Jackson, age 51, for Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, will add a shot of youthfulness to the Supreme Court and may present an opportunity for a reset at an institution whose reputation has slipped.
Brandeis University professor Anita Hill said Thursday that Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the US Supreme Court marked an "important cultural moment" for the court and the country.
Ketanji Brown Jackson's shattering of a racial glass ceiling, in a week also marked by the naked ambition of the Republicans who smeared her, the delusional demagoguery of an ex-President and a touch of the bizarre, reflected an historic and extreme Washington age.
On February 13, 2021, Mitch McConnell said this on the floor of the Senate about Donald Trump's actions on January 6: "Former President Trump's actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty."
Tragic individual stories of 21st century war in Ukraine are coming into focus in 21st century ways, including through drone video and social media posts.
Investigators said Thursday that they had seized a cache of weapons during a search of multiple Washington, DC, apartments belonging to two men accused of impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years.
The Manhattan district attorney said Thursday the criminal investigation into Trump and his company is continuing with prosecutors reviewing new evidence
Former first lady Michelle Obama praised Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, thanking the judge, newly confirmed to the US Supreme Court, for giving Black women and girls "a new dream to dream, a new path to forge, and a future we can all be hopeful for."
Congress punted once again on a massive Covid-19 relief package, leaving President Joe Biden's administration in limbo on one of its top requests from Congress this spring.
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday revived President Joe Biden's Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal executive branch employees, lifting a district court's January injunction that had halted the requirement and ordering the lower court to dismiss the case.
Medicare will restrict coverage of the controversial and costly Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm to those enrolled in qualifying clinical trials, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday.
As President Joe Biden sat at a signing desk in a crowded room at the White House on Wednesday, he was flanked by lawmakers who stood shoulder to shoulder to celebrate a rare bipartisan win: a new law that will modernize the US Postal Service.
The FBI arrested two men in Washington, DC, Wednesday for allegedly impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years, giving expensive gifts to federal agents in DC, providing them apartments and offering to purchase a weapon for a Secret Service agent assigned to first lady Jill Biden, according to an affidavit.
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