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The committee, which had planned at least two additional hearings next month, had not been scheduled to meet this week....Read More

The White House is trying to tamp down speculation about plans to seek re-election, while aides say President Biden is bristling at the persistent questions....Read More

Illinois, Colorado, Mississippi and Utah are the settings for suspenseful contests at the federal and state level. New York voters will choose candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, and Oklahoma is holding a special primary election...

The directives, given during a video conference, included obeying police lines and keeping away from ordinary protesters. But members of the far-right group played aggressive roles in several breaches at the Capitol....Read More

Joseph Kennedy, a former high school football coach in Bremerton, Wash., had a constitutional right to pray on the field after his team’s games, the justices ruled....Read More

A slow-burning hostility to constitutional abortion rights runs through the career of the author of the Supreme Court opinion overturning them....Read More

The bipartisan gun safety legislation that cleared Congress on Friday was the product of weeks of fraught negotiations that started with both sides acknowledging what had to stay off the table....Read More

The bill is the most significant gun measure to clear Congress in nearly three decades, though it falls short of more restrictive gun control proposals that Democrats favor....Read More

The House gave final approval to the Senate-passed compromise, ending nearly three decades of congressional inaction....Read More

Vladimir V. Putin is making gains in his war on Ukraine while the United States and its allies struggle with soaring energy prices and inflation....Read More