Paul Best

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution will be on the ballot this November.

President Joe Biden criticized “MAGA Republicans” in two Labor Day speeches on Monday in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

Sarah Palin criticized ranked-choice voting on Thursday after losing to Democrat Mary Peltola in Alaska’s special election to fill former Rep. Don Young’s term.

Beto O’Rourke returns to the campaign trail this week in the race for Texas Governor after being diagnosed with a bacterial infection on Sunday.

A man called a staffer for Rep. Eric Swalwell and threatened to come to the congressman’s office and kill him, the California lawmaker tweeted Tuesday.

The Department of Justice announced that a new federal rule designed to crack down on “ghost guns,” or privately assembled firearms, took effect on Wednesday.

StudentAid.gov, the federal government’s student aid website, was experiencing outages on Wednesday after President Joe Biden announced he is cancelling some debt.

The Justice Department said in a court filing on Monday that it opposes the release of the affidavit that was used to justify the search of former President Trump’s home.

The White House is circulating a memo defending President Biden’s widely criticized decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan one year ago.

Paul Pelosi is scheduled to be arraigned on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury on Aug. 3 in Napa County Superior Court.

The Biden administration is weighing whether it has the authority to declare a public health emergency on abortion access, the president said Sunday.

The Biden administration’s response to a group of progressive senators’ request to deschedule marijuana was “extraordinarily disappointing,” the senators wrote.

Operation Lone Star, which was launched last year in Texas amid surging border crossings, is under investigation by the DOJ, according to public records.

Biden’s pick to be the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement withdrew from consideration on Sunday, more than a year after he was nominated.

Beto O’Rourke held a rally in Austin, Texas, alongside pro-choice organizers on Sunday, slamming the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling upending Roe v. Wade.

Federal prosecutors requested transcripts of witness interviews from the House Jan. 6 Select Committee as the panel holds hearings on the Capitol riot.

The Biden administration said Thursday that a COVID-19 vaccine may be available to children younger than 5 years old as soon as June 21.

Deb Haaland, President Biden’s Secretary of the Interior, tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, two days after she last visited the White House.

Bipartisan discussions about potentially reforming gun laws are currently underway on Capitol Hill following a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two adults dead.

Oklahoma lawmakers sent a bill to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s desk on Thursday that would ban almost all abortions from the moment of fertilization.

Fentanyl traffickers in Florida will now face increased mandatory minimum sentences and methamphetamine dealers who sell drugs such as fentanyl that result in someone’s overdose death could be tried for murder under a new bill signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday.

House lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday evening to address the ongoing baby formula shortage by lifting restrictions on the importation of formula and cutting red tape to allow for innovation in the market.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that makes it illegal to protest at an individual’s residence, citing the demonstrators who have shown up outside of multiple Supreme Court justices’ homes in recent weeks.

Dr. Anthony Fauci laughed and said “no” when asked he if he would stay in his post as chief medical adviser at the White House if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.

White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice announced that she tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, making her the latest member of President Biden’s inner circle to contract the virus.

The United States should seize and sell the yachts, mansions, and other assets of Russian oligarchs, then send the proceeds to Ukraine, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Sunday.

The University of Waterloo announced an opening for a tenure track position last month that is only available to “qualified individuals who self-identify as women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called for the United States to join the International Criminal Court in light of Russia’s alleged war crimes in Ukraine, saying that America’s refusal to join is “antithetical to our commitment to human rights.

President Biden has had incremental success at implementing gun control through executive action, rolling out a rule last year to regulate pistol-stablizing braces, directing his Justice Department to target gun traffickers, and announcing a new crackdown on “ghost guns” Monday.

The Senate voted 53-47 on Monday to move forward with a confirmation vote for President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.