The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council after high-profile allegations of atrocities committed by Russian soldiers during the war in Ukraine.
The Senate is voting to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman Supreme Court justice. Watch live and follow the latest news updates and analysis here.
Congress is poised to pass two bipartisan bills in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, the latest move for lawmakers before they're set to begin a two-week recess on Friday.
Chief Justice John Roberts turned heads this week when he criticized how the Supreme Court's conservatives used the emergency docket, referred to by some as the shadow docket.
Despite her 13 years out of office, Sarah Palin immediately won an endorsement from former President Donald Trump in her campaign to represent Alaska in the US House.
Safi Rauf, an Afghan American naval reservist who was recently released from captivity under the Taliban, recounted his detainment on Wednesday and what it's like to finally return home.
Senate cafeteria workers -- who work long hours serving senators and staffers their meals on Capitol Hill -- have been threatened with a round of layoffs, forcing Democratic lawmakers to scramble to help save the jobs of many struggling to make ends meet even as they walk the halls with some of the country's most powerful politicians.
An Oklahoma Senate committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill known as the "Oklahoma Heartbeat Act," legislation that would allow private citizens to take civil action against abortion providers to enforce the law.
Two members of President Joe Biden's Cabinet tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, becoming some of the latest high-profile Washington figures to contract the virus in recent days.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have prohibited transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender at public and private schools in the state.
A former officer of the Rocky Mount Police in Virginia who went inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, took the stand Wednesday to testify against his former sergeant, Thomas Robertson.
Republican-led states around the country have enacted a flurry of new restrictions on abortion, LGBTQ and transgender youth rights, and discussion of critical race theory.
Former President Barack Obama spoke at length about the war in Ukraine on Wednesday, telling an audience in Chicago that the conflict is a "bracing reminder for democracies that had gotten flabby and confused and feckless around the stakes of things that we tended to take for granted," including the United States.
The Biden administration is extending a pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31. The repayment freeze, which has been in place since the beginning of the pandemic, had been scheduled to expire on May 1.
Voters in Milwaukee have elected Cavalier Johnson as the city's next mayor, CNN projects. Johnson, a Democrat who currently serves as the city's acting mayor, is the first African American elected to the post.
Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Gibbs said on Wednesday that he will not seek reelection and will instead retire as he expressed frustration with redistricting in his state.
The US Justice Department is charging Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev with sanctions violations, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday, the first criminal charges against an oligarch since Russia invaded Ukraine.
A 5-4 Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era rule Wednesday that restricts the authority of states to reject federal permits under the Clean Water Act in another ruling putting the court's emergency docket in the spotlight.
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