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The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday it intends to reaffirm its authority to regulate toxic mercury from power plants.

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, has been a vocal critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, who also serves as President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser.

Three leading California Democratic officials were photographed maskless at the National Football Conference title game on Sunday despite a sweeping mask mandate for Los Angeles County.

The United States "will know sooner rather than later" whether it is possible to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, a senior State Department official said Monday, adding that some of the "most critical decisions" have yet to be made.

Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, quietly testified before the House select committee investigating January 6 last week in response to a subpoena, sources tell CNN, in the most significant sign to date that Pence's team is cooperating with the probe.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday lashed out at those who called on him to condemn Nazi demonstrations that had taken place over the weekend near Orlando, accusing his political opponents of trying to "smear me as if I had something to do with it."

Every once in a while, it's good to be reminded of just how unfamiliar many Americans are with major Washington power players.

The Electoral Count Act is a confusing and poorly written law from 1887 that dictates how Electoral College votes are tabulated after presidential elections. But out of the ashes of Democrats' failed effort to set a national voting rights standard may come a reform of the law to prevent a repeat of the January 6 riot.

Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger blasted former President Donald Trump's recent comments related to the 2020 election as he teased a 2024 White House bid over the weekend.

The National Archives says it's been taping together torn documents from the Trump White House

Donald Trump's pledge to consider pardoning those arrested on January 6 if he wins the presidency again in 2024 drew most of the headlines over the weekend. But it was something else he said in a free-form (and fact-free) campaign-style speech in Texas on Saturday night that really deserves more of your attention.

Many Donald Trump-backed candidates who have blindly embraced his falsehoods about the 2020 election are showing a rare willingness to buck the former President on a most controversial question: whether or not Americans of all ages should get vaccinated against Covid-19.

There was a remarkable exchange on Sunday between ABC's George Stephanopoulos and Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Here it is:

The Biden administration, unable to return an increasing number of Venezuelans arrested at the US-Mexico border to their home country, is now sending those migrants to Colombia if they previously resided there, according to two Homeland Security officials.

Congress has been talking about reforming the 1887 Electoral Count Act for a while now. Donald Trump may have (unwittingly) given elected officials the boost they needed to get something done.

The Biden administration is taking steps to cut emissions of methane, a potent, planet-warming gas.

The United States has received a written response from Moscow after it sent its own written answers following face-to-face meetings on the ongoing Ukraine crisis, the latest development in the ongoing diplomatic campaign aimed at deterring a potential Russian invasion of the country.

A bipartisan group of governors told President Joe Biden that the country needs to "move away from the pandemic," Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said at the White House Monday.

President Joe Biden is close to publicly naming his ambassador to Ukraine, but his administration is still waiting on formal approval from the Ukrainian government, US and Ukrainian sources told CNN.

Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drove within several yards of a pipe bomb lying next to a bench outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters on January 6, 2021, and remained inside the DNC for nearly two hours before the bomb was discovered, according to multiple law enforcement officials familiar with the situation.