Politics

Republicans in at least four states where Democrats control the governor’s office, the legislature or both are pursuing statewide ballot initiatives or veto-proof proposals to enact voter ID restrictions and other changes to election law.

President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress have edged close to a deal on their big package of social services and climate change strategies.

The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now.

North Korea has accused the Biden administration of raising military tensions with Pyongyang’s closest ally China through its support of Taiwan.

On Friday, Democrats missed another self-imposed deadline to agree to a framework for the Build Back Better plan

The White House says President Joe Biden will lay out his thinking in the coming weeks about moving to “fundamentally alter” the filibuster or even eliminate the legislative roadblock that empowers the Senate minority

The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.77 trillion for 2021, the second highest on record but an improvement from the all-time high of $3.13 trillion in 2020.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Bonsall, Friday announced the evacuation from Afghanistan of an American citizen who worked as a U.S. Army translator and his wife.

The Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November.

Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans

The Democrats’ social spending and climate change bill would put the United States back on a path to reducing its persistent pool of uninsured people

The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has sparked a national conversation on police reform, ranging from defunding departments to enhancing training

Steve Bannon is facing a contempt charge from Congress after he refused to cooperate with a House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

The White House is floating new plans for ways to pay for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion proposal for expanding social services and tackling climate change.

“There are times when the role of first lady pushes you to show up, even when it’s uncomfortable.”

For the third time this year, Senate Democrats tried to pass sweeping elections legislation that they tout as a powerful counterweight to new voting restrictions in the states

The senator leading a probe of Facebook’s Instagram and its impact on young people is asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the Senate

Dr. Rachel Levine was appointed to lead the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, making her the nation’s first openly transgender four-star officer.

Democrats will likely cut free community college and a key renewable energy program from their sprawling economic plan as they try to lower costs.

Scaling back his big government-overhaul plans, President Joe Biden has described a more-limited vision to Democratic lawmakers.

The case against a rural Alaska man who federal authorities say threatened to kill the state’s two U.S. senators will go to a grand jury

According to a city report, trash removal services have cost the city $260 million in the past five years and are expected to balloon to $380 million in the next five.

A federal grand jury has indicted U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, accusing him of lying to the FBI and concealing information from federal agents who were investigating campaign contributions funneled to him from a Nigerian billionaire

A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has voted unanimously to hold former White House aide Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress

Progressive prosecutors around the country are increasingly declaring they just won’t enforce some GOP-backed state laws

The congressional committee tasked with investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has been ramping up its efforts in recent weeks.

The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan is stepping down following the chaotic American withdrawal from the country

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have recognized the 2021 and 2020 national teachers of the year and all teachers for the work they do

The State Department’s inspector general informed Congress on Monday that the office is opening a series of probes into the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Diana Shaw, the department’s acting inspector general, notified the heads of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Fore...

Trump in the lawsuit blasts President Joe Biden for not asserting executive privilege over the records to keep them from the committee probing the Jan. 6 riot.

Texas is poised to become the latest and most populous state to tighten restrictions on transgender athletes in public high school sports.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts.

Former President Donald Trump returned to New York City to provide a videotaped deposition in a case about his security team’s crackdown on a protest during the early days of his presidential campaign in 2015.

It was reported last week that Buttigieg had been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their twin babies, Penelope and Joseph.

Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams was in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to urge Black churchgoers to turn out for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in next month’s Virginia governor’s election.

Legislation in the General Assembly would repeal a law requiring parents be notified at least 48 hours in advance of a minor having an abortion.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is saying Sunday that it is “really unfortunate” that Gov. Greg Abbott has moved to ban vaccine mandates in the state of Texas.

Some cities are urging President Joe Biden’s administration to loosen its rules for spending $350 billion of coronavirus relief money directed toward state and local governments.

At least five people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol have chosen to defend themselves in court

Standing in front of the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute on Saturday to fallen police officers and honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site

Republicans in New Hampshire are struggling to contain a party wing that’s promoting conspiracy views about the COVID-19 vaccine and pushing back against federal vaccine mandates

Far from the White House, Donald Trump continues to circle the Republican Party.

The U.S. Defense Department says it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August

Police departments that are requiring officers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are running up against pockets of resistance across the U.S. Police unions and officers are pushing back by filing lawsuits to block the mandates.

Indigenous groups and other environmental activists marched to the Capitol Friday as they continued a weeklong protest demanding that Congress and the Biden administration stop new fossil fuel projects and act with greater urgency on climate change.

President Joe Biden says he would prefer to slash the length of the new and expanded programs in his $3.5 trillion social safety net and climate change legislation, rather than eliminate programs entirely

The Biden administration is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to halt a restrictive Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.

The Biden administration said Friday it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.

A long-serving member of Parliament was stabbed to death during a meeting with constituents at a church in England, in what police said was a terrorist incident

About 70,000 asylum-seekers have been subject to the “Remain in Mexico” policy, known officially as “Migrant Protection Protocols.”

A commission tasked with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court is releasing a first look at its review

House Bill 25 would require that public school athletic teams must be based on a student’s gender on their birth certificate at or near the time of birth.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill raising the nation’s debt limit until early December, delaying the prospect of an unprecedented federal default that would cause economic disaster

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago

President Joe Biden’s commission on the Supreme Court on Thursday released its initial findings based on months of public hearings and research, laying out arguments related to expanding the size of the court and other issues. The documents laid out various arguments around reforming the Supreme Court, but made no recommendations. The com...

The program helps place primary care doctors in communities that have a hard time recruiting and retaining them.

A federal appeals court is once again allowing Texas to continue banning most abortions

A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has set a vote to recommend criminal contempt charges against former White House aide Steve Bannon after he defied the panel’s subpoena

In the weeks since President Biden mandated larger private employers to require their employees be vaccinated or regularly tested, both the supply and demand for fake vaccination cards in the U.S. skyrocketed.

The fundraising committee aiming to help Democrats maintain control of the House says it raised $106.5 million through the end of last month

Senate aides and immigration advocates say Democrats are considering proposing that the government use its existing parole power to let about 7 million migrants stay temporarily in the United States.

The Biden administration’s requirement that companies ensure workers are vaccinated or tested regularly for Covid could be finalized as early as next week, pending a final White House review, according to a person familiar with the process.

Despite gathering almost two million signatures to recall Governor Newsom, the organizers of the petition were unsuccessful in ousting the governor from his office. Governor Newsom decisively beat the recall attempt, earning 61% of the vote from Californians. Chairwoman of the California Republican Party Jessica Patterson says the special election ...

The nation’s most restrictive abortion law is driving many women from Texas to seek services as far away as Oklahoma and Kansas

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the 2020 election.

The White House says it’s helped broker an agreement for the Port of Los Angeles to become a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operation

Progressive leaders in Congress are warning against what they say is a “false choice” over how to trim President Joe Biden’s now-$2 trillion proposal for beefing up social services and tackling climate change

The Biden administration says the United States will reopen its land borders to nonessential travel next month, ending a 19-month freeze due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the governor of Texas leading the charge, conservative Republicans in several states are moving to block or undercut President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private employers before the regulations are even issued.

An Indiana hairdresser linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory has been sentenced to 14 days in jail and 60 hours of community service for joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Federal immigration agents will stop making mass worksite arrest of immigrants employees suspected of living in the U.S. without legal permission

Members of the House have approved a short-term hike to the nation’s debt limit

The Biden administration is again urging courts to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions in the state since early September.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Monday to prohibit any entity, including private business, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers and called on state lawmakers to pass a similar ban into law.

Year-end pileups of crucial legislation and the brinkmanship that goes with it are normal behavior for Congress — but the stakes this fall are especially high.

Army Capt. Kim Pierre-Zamora remembers the protective vest she was issued when she went to basic training.

Patient advocates and some state governments say hospitals must do more to help patients deal with medical bills before the debt winds up in collections.

Republican Sen. Charles Grassley and Gov. Kim Reynolds have embraced Donald Trump’s return to Iowa.

Taiwan’s president has vowed to defend the island from China’s rising pressure for reunification, after a week of tensions with Beijing

Despite aiming to benefit historically underprivileged communities of color, housing experts say without timely and robust housing protections, the center may become a catalyst for displacement.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping says reunification with Taiwan will happen peacefully, despite a recent ratcheting up of military threats against the self-governing island.

Texas abortion clinics are canceling appointments they had booked during a 48-hour reprieve from the nation’s most restrictive abortion law.

Races for local school board seats have emerged as intense political battlegrounds in the upcoming Nov. 2 elections across the U.S. Parental protests that started during COVID-19 lockdowns are evolving into full-fledged board takeover campaigns

During the recent standoff over the nation’s debt limit, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell showed just how far he’ll go to stop President Joe Biden’s agenda

Roger Marshall won’t let people forget he’s a doctor. That’s clear because the obstetrician puts “Doc” in the letterhead of his U.S. Senate office news releases. But when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines, other doctors and experts say the Kansas Republican sounds far more like a politician than a physician.

President Joe Biden will not block the handover of documents sought by a House committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Iraq’s elections on Sunday come with enormous challenges: Iraq’s economy has been battered by years of conflict, endemic corruption and more recently, the coronavirus pandemic.

Officials say senior Taliban members and U.S. representatives are to hold talks about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will not again help Democrats extend the government’s borrowing authority

The DNC is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania Republicans aimed at curbing the use of mail voting, according to a copy of the filing shared with NBC News.

A federal appeals court is temporarily allowing the nation’s toughest abortion law to resume in Texas

The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, setting up a legal showdown between the current and former president over executive privilege. In a letter to the National Archives obtained by NBC News, White House Counsel Dana Rem...