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1765 episodes transcribedKetanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's Supreme Court pick, faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. In a marathon hearing, Jacks...
On her first day of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson told senators that she "stands on the shoulders" of those who cam...
On top of aid to Ukraine and a trillion-dollar budget, Congress reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act and passed legislation which makes lynchin...
For more than a year, immigration activists have been frustrated that the White House has used the pandemic as a reason to turn away hundreds of thous...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a video address before Congress Wednesday, in which he asked for additional support to protect the c...
Even before the pandemic, three in five Americans reported feeling like they are left out, poorly understood and lacking companionship.Communities wit...
The UN says more than 600 civilians been killed, though the true number is likely far higher. Russia's attacks have begun to reach the westernmost par...
The $1.5 trillion dollar package also contained billions in aid to Ukraine. One thing that was absent? COVID relief money that the White House was ban...
The head of the Justice Department said that he is committed to unraveling the conspiracy behind the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, and re...
Democrat Jared Polis ended Colorado's statewide mask mandate in the summer of 2021 and didn't reinstate it during later coronavirus surges. In an inte...
The symbolic move was accompanied by an acknowledgement from the president that gas prices are likely to keep rising. Nominally at an all-time high, g...
Ukraine continues to hold out against a Russian invasion, as the U.S. and its European allies debate military aid and banning Russian oil imports to f...
Lawmakers said in a court filing this week that the evidence they have gathered through their investigation into last year's attack on the U.S. Capito...
Biden is asking Congress to make new treatment options free and immediately available to patients who test positive. The administration says wastewate...
Election officials said more than 15,000 mail-in ballots weren't completed properly after the state imposed new voting rules governing Tuesday's prima...
In his speech, the president emphasized policies with broad, bipartisan support, including sanctions against Russian oligarchs and military aid to Ukr...
At last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, influential Republicans focused on the notion that important American cultural values are und...
Jackson's experiences working as a public defender and on the federal sentencing commission give her a unique background compared to the sitting high...
In a speech at the White House Thursday afternoon, President Biden reiterated that the United States would not deploy troops to Ukraine, though he did...
There are 34 Senate races this November and any one of them could decide control of the evenly-divided chamber. Democrats in Pennsylvania are slogging...
