Biden commits to nominating nation's first Black female Supreme Court justice as he honors retiring Breyer

This cycle of gun violence is sad, predictable and permanent. It is permanent because presidents lack power, while Capitol Hill is paralyzed by minority rule. And federal courts have routinely struck down state laws to reasonably curb gun access.

Top White House aides have drafted the order for canceling some student loan debt, but they're still waiting for President Joe Biden to make up his mind on whether to go forward with it.

"We don't need more gun control. We need to return to God," the far-right House member said.

Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Mitch McConnell are among those who have taken money from the pro-gun lobby over the years.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate and the Republican governor will face off in a rematch. Abrams narrowly lost to Kemp in 2018.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that President Biden isn't doing anything "to get rid of the Second Amendment" during a press briefing on Thursday. Jean-Pierre's comments come amid increasing calls for stricter gun laws after alleged gunman Salvador Ramos killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) abruptly walked off from a British journalist’s questions about gun violence in America two days after an elementary school massacre in his state left 19 children and two adults dead. Cruz, who is due to appear at a National Rifle Association convention this weekend, became...

One of the top security officials on Capitol Hill revealed that he does not believe lawmakers should be allowed to carry firearms in the US Capitol Complex

The Trump-backed Republican appears to be polling narrowly ahead of the Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in Georgia.

The Supreme Court will allow the Biden administration to continue to use a metric that estimates the real-world cost of the climate crisis while legal challenges play out.

A former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told the House January 6 committee that then-President Donald Trump had suggested to Meadows he approved of the "hang Mike Pence" chants from rioters who stormed the US Capitol, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Musk's taunt comes after Ocasio-Cortez said she would ditch her Tesla for another electric car that was made by unionized workers.

A majority of Americans -- 54% -- now say they disapprove of the job the Supreme Court is doing following the leak of the draft opinion showing the justices are poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new poll released Wednesday

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is pushing back on a subpoena issued to him by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, contesting the constitutionality of the request and outlining a list of demands the committee must meet in order for him to even consider moving forward.

Student debt cancellation could deliver financial relief to millions of Americans and help narrow the racial wealth gap. But it would also shift the cost to taxpayers and could add to inflation while doing nothing to address the root of the problem: college affordability.

When children can be mercilessly slaughtered in school and the majority's political will to take constructive action is stymied by a small group of politicians, donors and special interests, we cannot expect our democracy to survive, writes Peniel Joseph.

When Democrat Beto O'Rourke confronted Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott during a press conference Wednesday in the wake of a mass school shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead, he was shouted down for making the tragedy political.

The Biden administration is preparing to step up the kind of weaponry it is offering Ukraine by sending advanced, long-range rocket systems that are now the top request from Ukrainian officials, multiple officials say.

Former President Barack Obama took to Instagram on Friday to congratulate Jacob Philadelphia, the boy who famously touched Obama's head in an iconic 2009 White House photo, on his high school graduation.

President Joe Biden on Friday called on this year's graduating class at the US Naval Academy to be "defenders of democracy" in an address outlining the many challenges the world and the graduates now face, including Russia's war on Ukraine.