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The Justice Department is suing Texas over new voting restrictions that the federal government says will disenfranchise eligible voters and violate federal voting rights law.

The State Department notified Congress of a new $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia today, according to a State Department spokesperson.

There's a new stage in the pandemic: Young children are eligible for Covid-19 vaccines, and the majority of American workers are being told to get them.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger is actively weighing whether to seek his political fortunes in the Senate, the Illinois governor's mansion or even the White House, despite serious questions about whether there's any future at all for a Donald Trump critic like him in today's GOP.

The Biden administration announced Thursday that its vaccine rules applying to private businesses with 100 or more employees, certain health care workers and federal contractors will take effect January 4.

The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Robert Santos as director of the Census Bureau, making him the first person of color to hold the position in a permanent capacity.

The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of senior members of a Russian-speaking ransomware gang that forced major US fuel operator Colonial Pipeline to shut down in May.

Regina LaBelle, the former acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, is leaving her job at the White House on Friday following the recent confirmation of Dr. Rahul Gupta as drug czar, a source familiar told CNN.

President Joe Biden is OK with the Justice Department settling with families separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration, White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday, but not for a reported $450,000 each.

Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who was a source for the 2016 dossier of allegations about Donald Trump, was arrested Thursday as part of Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation, a law enforcement official told CNN.

During the final Virginia gubernatorial debate in late September, Republican Glenn Youngkin's aides knew they had struck campaign gold.

Democrats are still trying to include protections for undocumented immigrants in the massive economic bill that would expand the nation's social safety net in a last-ditch effort, even if it's not exactly what they'd hoped it would be. But they still need to get buy-in from their colleagues.

Alvin Bragg, a former New York state and federal prosecutor, has been elected Manhattan's first Black district attorney in the history of the office.

Federal workers will be granted paid time off to take their children to get vaccinated, the government announced Wednesday.

If Democrats are to avoid a far more devastating election night next year than they suffered on Tuesday, they must finally defeat the pandemic from which so much economic pain and voter angst flow.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is objecting to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to add paid family and medical leave back into the Democrats' social spending bill, saying that "I don't think it belongs in the bill."

The Justice Department told attorneys representing families separated at the US southern border under the Trump administration that the reported settlement figures "are higher than anywhere that settlement can land," American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero told CNN.

The Federal Aviation Administration -- which cannot prosecute violent airline passengers -- has sent only 37 of the more than 5,000 passenger complaints this year to the Justice Department, highlighting a significant challenge when it comes to enforcing the strict rules for the increasingly unruly skies.

After a year of contentious debates over mask mandates, social distancing rules and curriculums regarding race, new candidates challenged incumbent school board members Tuesday in elections across the country.