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WASHINGTON (AP) — Without speaking a word or scratching a pen across paper, President Joe Biden drove up the pressure on Big Tech companies already smarting under federal and congressional investigations, epic antitrust lawsuits and near-constant condemnation from politicians of both parties.

The context and apparent motive for the former president's recently revealed secret surveillance of reporters and political adversaries line up more with autocracy than democracy, writes Ruth Ben Ghiat. And since it is rare for parties to stake their reputation on a defeated leader --especially one who incited a riot-- unless they think he will return to office, the GOP's failure to denounce such clandestine…

Democrats' sweeping attempt to overhaul the nation's election system fell to a whimpering defeat Tuesday, dealing President Biden his first major legislative loss.

New NASA Administrator, and former Congressman, Bill Nelson said Tuesday that the space agency is hoping to get $5 billion in infrastructure funding...

Donald Trump continues to openly discuss the possibility that he will be reinstated as president, dangerously fomenting the false belief among his followers that this wild conspiracy theory is something other than a total and complete fantasy.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's effort to build a wall at Texas' southern border has raised almost $400,000 in public donations since the project was announced last week, the governor's office confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday.

Alcindor cited analysis done by "activists" in making her claim.

The Trump G.O.P.'s voter-suppression efforts and surging murder rates leave Democrats vulnerable.

On Tuesday evening, Senate Republicans soundly rejected Democrats' efforts to bring a sweeping, piece of voting rights legislation to the floor. After West Virg…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday that she will create a House Select Committee to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, said Guardian congressional reporter Hugo Lowell. Republicans were able to block a bipartisan commission like the 9/11 commission in a Senate vote where...

Military officials claimed the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act of 2021 would be "detrimental to the good order and discipline required for effective warfighting" and would "erode confidence in the system and re-victimize victims."

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tribunal that has gained a reputation for canceling patents to continue operating, but reined in the power of its in-house judges.

"I am very skeptical that there's a lot of easy money to be had from so-called tax enforcement," Republican Sen. Pat Toomey told Insider.

They vanquished the Islamic State and are now in desperate need of aid.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser downplayed instances of rioting amid protests in the district over George Floyd's death last summer during a tense exchange with Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

The special election in Ohio's 11th Congressional District has become one of the Biden era's first campaign trail skirmish between the far-left and establishment Democrats.

Democratic leaders plan to call a test vote to try to advance a sweeping voting rights bill, known as the For the People Act, though they are all but certain to fail in the face of united Republican opposition.

Sen. Ron Johnson seemed to suggest that one reason why Washington, D.C., residents shouldn't be granted statehood is because they are too "elite" – a point that was quickly rebuked by Mayor Muriel Bowser during a Senate hearing Tuesday on whether to make D.C. the 51st state.

A newly approved drug to treat Alzheimer's disease is expected to become a multibillion dollar expense for Medicare. By one projection, spending on the drug ...

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A., is bolstering its international Litigation and Tax Practices with the addition of Seth J. Entin, a tax attorney who rejoins as a shareholder in the Miami office, and Adrian Nuñez, a litigator who joins as of counsel.