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Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak in a video call Tuesday, as tensions between the United States and Russia escalate over a Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border

New financial disclosures further exposes the political power of the Nation’s two largest teachers unions.

Abe Schumer, father of Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, died at the age of 98 Wednesday night

President Biden failed to take questions from reporters at the top of a trilateral summit meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada Thursday

An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S.

Republican Glenn Youngkin bested Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race, racking up strong margins among reliably Republican groups — plus making inroads among key Democratic constituencies.

The U.S. will “unfortunately” continue to delay the public release of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and officials say the COVID-19 pandemic is to blame.

Texas Republicans approved on Monday redrawn U.S. House maps that favor incumbents and decrease political representation for growing minority communities, even as Latinos drive much of the growth in the nation’s largest red state.

Bill Clinton arrived Sunday at his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital, officials said.

A man who works for the sergeant-at-arms of the U.S. House of Representatives has been charged with possession of child pornography, according to police.

Protesters jeered Biden repeatedly in Connecticut: first at Hartford’s airport, then at a childcare center and finally at the University of Connecticut.

California public schools and colleges must stock their restrooms with free menstrual products under a bill signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff​ went for a power walk on Sunday in Washington, DC, following her hush-hush overnight trip to California over the weekend.

Rep. Liz Cheney says she was wrong to oppose gay marriage in the past, a stand that once split her family.

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell went on CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’ to discuss the $3.5 trillion tax bill. Her commentary sparked a wave of mockery.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was booed by an otherwise euphoric crowd at Saturday’s star-studded Global Citizens Live concert, marking the second time in recent weeks he was heckled at a major Central Park performance.

Canadians gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party a victory in Monday’s parliamentary elections, but it was unclear whether his gamble to win a majority of seats paid off.

A Texas doctor who publicly said he performed an abortion was sued Monday in state court by two different plaintiffs, handing Texas the first tests of its new abortion law.

A panel of federal judges reversed course Friday and blocked a Tennessee restriction that outlaws abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, or because of the race or gender of the fetus. The ruling also kept a six-week abortion ban blocked.