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President Joe Biden issued a proclamation commemorating Indigenous Peoples' Day on Friday, becoming the first US president to do so, the White House said.

President Joe Biden on Friday announced the expansion of three national monuments -- Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine -- in a move that restored protections that had been undone by then-President Donald Trump.

Recently, the Internal Revenue Service has gotten a lot of attention on social media -- specifically, an obscure proposal by the Biden administration to widen the authority to root out tax evasion by allowing the IRS to get annual, aggregated reports of flows from bank accounts with a minimum of $600.

The Biden administration is attributing the disappointing September jobs report to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and fears over the Delta variant.

Glenn Youngkin is trying to walk a tightrope on so-called election integrity.

President Joe Biden on Friday signed the HAVANA Act into law, committing the US government to boosting medical support for officials who have been affected by mysterious "Havana syndrome" incidents.

Eleven Senate Republicans broke ranks Thursday evening to vote with all Democrats to overcome a filibuster so that the debt ceiling deal announced earlier in the day could move forward.

Oklahoma's two-term State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister announced on Thursday that she is switching her party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and challenging Republican incumbent Gov. Kevin Stitt in next year's gubernatorial election, according to a video Hofmeister posted to Twitter.

President Joe Biden won the 2020 election in large part because he was able to win the center. He emerged with a 13-point win with independent voters, a group that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lost by 4 points in 2016. (House Democratic candidates, for their part, took independents by 9 points in 2020.)

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday morning that a deal has been reached for an extension of the nation's debt ceiling through early December, a major breakthrough to avert economic disaster that comes after weeks of partisan deadlock over how to resolve the issue.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has emerged as a lightning rod within the field of potential GOP presidential contenders, serving as such a forceful champion for former President Donald Trump that she's been talked about as a possible running mate if he vies for the White House again in 2024.

Donald Trump always seems to get away with it. And he's trying to do it again.

Rep. Ro Khanna had a suggestion for President Joe Biden on a private conference call earlier this week: Have Sens. Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders sit in the same room and try to cut a deal on the Democratic Party's massive social safety net expansion.

The Biden administration will expand the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on Thursday.

The debt ceiling deal proposed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is putting his GOP conference in a bind, with some Republicans accusing the formidable Senate tactician of folding in his standoff with Democrats and others refusing to go along with his strategy.

A US nuclear powered submarine struck an object underwater in the South China Sea on Saturday, according to two defense officials.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that the debate over the US debt ceiling amounts to "flirting with a self-inflicted crisis" but that everyone "breathed a sigh of relief" after Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to avert economic disaster.

Former President Donald Trump indicated on Thursday that he will try to exert executive privilege to prevent a House committee investigating January 6 the insurrection at the US Capitol from getting information from certain witnesses.

When the coronavirus pandemic struck in March 2020, Congress approved an unprecedented expansion of the nation's unemployment program to help those who suddenly lost their jobs.