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Former President George W. Bush will headline a fundraiser next month for top Donald Trump critic Liz Cheney, turning her reelection race into a proxy war of sorts between the ex-presidents who represent two competing factions of the Republican Party.

Texas this week will begin redrawing congressional lines, and Latino advocates and officeholders say it’s time to correct past wrongs.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled a state law preventing anyone from moving a Confederate monument or changing the historical name of a street or building without the Legislature’s permission is legal.

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Florida will consider an abortion bill similar to one signed into law in Texas that would ban most abortions in the state

The U.N. General Assembly is pledging to redouble efforts to combat racism around the world as it commemorates a landmark but contentious 2001 anti-racism conference

President Joe Biden has met with Democrats from the House and Senate as Congress works to bridge party divisions over his big $3.5 trillion “build back better” agenda

Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended without agreement

An influential panel of advisers to the CDC grappled Wednesday with the question of which Americans should get COVID-19 booster shots, with some members wondering if the decision should be put off for a month in hopes of more evidence.

The U.S. purchase of another 500 million shots brings the total U.S. vaccination commitment to more than 1.1 billion doses.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over a bombshell 2018 story about his family’s wealth and tax practices that was based on confidential documents she provided to the newspaper’s reporters

The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its borrowing limit and provide federal disaster and refugee aid

President Joe Biden has used his first address before the U.N. General Assembly to summon allies to quickly address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses

The United Nations chief is warning global leaders at the opening of the U_N_’s foremost gathering  that the world has never been more threatened and divided and “we face the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetime.”

The Biden administration says the U.S. will take in 125,000 refugees and their families next year, fulfilling an earlier pledge to raise a cap that had been at a historic low under his predecessor

A Kentucky man pardoned by President Donald Trump after his conviction in a 2012 bribery plot has been charged again with campaign-related crimes, this time involving a 2016 illegal campaign contribution scheme.

A San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law has been sued by two people seeking to test the legality of the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.

The Biden administration is moving to protect workers and communities from extreme heat

Democratic congressional leaders backed by the White House have announced they will push ahead with a vote to fund the government and suspend the debt limit

U.S. officials say more than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants have been removed from an encampment at a Texas border town

A lawyer for Donald Trump’s indicted corporate finance chief told a judge Monday he has “strong reason to believe” more indictments are coming in an ongoing New York investigation into the former president’s real estate empire

China has set new rules limiting the amount of time kids can spend playing online games

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants lawmakers to tackle additional items on the agenda — and right at the top is redistricting.

President Joe Biden begins his first visit to the U.N. General Assembly ready to make the case to world leaders that after closing the chapter on 20 years of war, the U.S. aims to rally allies and adversaries to work together on a slew of crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and trade and economics

The Senate’s nonpartisan parliamentarian says Democrats can’t use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens

A whopping 54% of Texans surveyed think the state is on the wrong track. Just 45% approve of Gov. Greg Abbott’s job performance.

A San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law has all but dared supporters of the state’s near-total ban on the procedure to try making an early example of him by filing a lawsuit — the only way the restrictions can be enforced. The state’s largest anti-abortion group said Monday that...

France’s government spokesman says President Emmanuel Macron will speak in the coming days with President Joe Biden in their first contact since a major crisis erupted between France and the United States over a submarine deal with Australia

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says France would have known Australia had “deep and grave concerns” that a submarine fleet the French were building would not meet Australia’s needs

The legalization movement that brought upmarket marijuana shops to Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco is now focused on psychedelic drugs.

One of the country’s top abortion-rights activists is warning that the Supreme Court’s recent inaction on Texas’ extremely restrictive new abortion law could signal the end of judicial checks and balances on the issue.

Israeli forces have arrested the last two of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximum-security Israeli prison two weeks ago

New commissions approved by voters to reduce partisan gamesmanship in redistricting are instead splitting along partisan lines in some states.

The U.S. Border Patrol hopes to free up agents to go back into the field by hiring civilians to perform tasks like checking holding cells and collecting information for immigration court papers

Some of the nation’s top medical advisers have delivered a stinging rebuke of Biden’s broad booster idea, in essence telling the White House “not so fast.”

Two Delaware women who confronted supporters of former President Donald Trump and took a “Make America Great Again” hat from them at the 2020 Democratic National Convention have been sentenced to probation.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is nearing a final plan to expel many of the thousands of Haitian migrants who have suddenly crossed into a Texas border city from Mexico and to fly them back to their Caribbean homeland

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The top U.S. military officer is in Greece meeting with NATO counterparts this weekend, and Army Gen. Mark Milley is hoping to forge more basing, intelligence-sharing and other agreements to prevent terrorist groups from regrouping in Afghanistan, and threatening America and the region.

Some of those left behind after the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan say they are scared the ruling Taliban will find them, throw them in jail, perhaps even kill them because they are Americans or had worked for the U.S. government

France’s foreign minister has denounced what he called the “duplicity, disdain and lies” surrounding the sudden rupture of France’s lucrative contract to make submarines for Australia in favor of a U.S. deal

Congressional Democrats face a daunting assignment.

The fence around the Capitol is back up. The D.C. police department is at the ready, and U.S. Capitol Police have requested assistance from nearby law enforcement agencies.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back to the nation’s capital after two years in Colorado.

North Carolina judges have struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law

France has recalled its ambassador to the United States in an unprecedented show of anger that dwarfs decades of previous rifts

The top U.S. military officer says calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final stormy months of Donald Trump’s presidency were “perfectly within the duties and responsibilities” of his job

A Justice Department official tells The Associated Press that the department is reviewing its policies on housing transgender inmates in the federal prison system.

The White House is warning state and local governments about severe cuts to disaster relief, Medicaid, infrastructure grants

They’re all Democrats. Yet each side is taking vastly different approaches to guiding the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill through Congress.

One of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol says he will not seek reelection next year

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is criticizing some in the judiciary for veering into the role of legislators and politicians

Officials in Washington state are upset that the Biden administration is challenging a state law making it easier for workers who become ill at a former nuclear weapons production site to be compensated.

The Federal Reserve is reviewing the ethics policies that cover the financial holdings of its senior officials in the wake of disclosures that two regional Fed presidents engaged in extensive trading last year.

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government must stop using a Trump-era public health order to quickly expel migrants with children who are apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society

Congressional Democrats are calling top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants to testify about what lawmakers say is a long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming.

A prominent cybersecurity lawyer has been charged in the special counsel’s probe of the U.S. government’s investigation into Russian election interference The lawyer is accused of making false statements to the FBI

FDA advisers will debate Friday if there’s enough proof that a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective — the first step toward deciding which Americans need one and when.

Fort Worth State Rep. Matt Krause is challenging incumbent Ken Paxton for Texas attorney general.

Some states, like New Mexico, ban Tesla from offering sales or repairs without going through a dealership.

Australia’s prime minister says it has canceled a contract with France for conventional submarines and instead will build nuclear-powered submarines using U.S. technology because of changing strategic conditions in the Asia-Pacific region

The Biden administration has begun notifying governors and state refugee coordinators about how many Afghan evacuees from the first group of nearly 37,000 arrivals are slated to be resettled in their states.

The Biden administration says federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-led states made it much easier to kill the predators

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society

Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom beat back a recall election that could have removed him, his fellow Democrats in the state Legislature said they will seek changes to make it more difficult to challenge a sitting governor.

A House committee has dealt an ominous if tentative blow to President Joe Biden’s social and environment package

The top U.S. military officer is defending his phone calls to his Chinese counterpart during the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency as an effort to avoid misunderstandings and conflict

Religious objections were once used only sparingly around the country to get exempted from various required vaccines

Some Republicans had worried that fraud claims ahead of Tuesday’s election from some party leaders could suppress turnout.

At just over half of the largest U.S. public universities, students aren’t obligated to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Here’s a look at approaches that three public universities are taking to get students vaccinated.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ably fended off Republicans’ recall attempt

The Justice Department late Tuesday night filed a request for a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction against Texas’ abortion law banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

Fearful of Donald Trump’s actions in his final weeks as president, the United States’ top military officer twice called his Chinese counterpart to assure him that the two nations would not suddenly go to war.

Senate Democrats are paring back their signature elections bill in hopes of kickstarting their stalled push to pass it

The Justice Department is curtailing federal agents’ use of “no-knock” warrants — which allow law enforcement agents to enter a home without announcing their presence — and would also prohibit its agents from using chokeholds in most circumstances

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a recall election Sept. 14 that could remove him from office

Gov. Gavin Newsom cruised to victory in the recall election and will stay in office, NBC News projected.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is in self-isolation after people in his inner circle became infected with the coronavirus

A Kansas legislator accused of kicking a high school student in the testicles has pleaded guilty to three lesser misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct.

As Texas lawmakers head into a third special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott, one item they will focus on is vaccine mandates and how they can be enforced.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pushed back against harsh Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan

The Biden administration is stepping up its effort to find and unite migrant families forcibly separated under President Donald Trump

President Joe Biden is using his first Western swing since taking office to hold out the wildfires burning across the region as an argument for his $3.5 trillion rebuilding plans, He is calling year-round fires and other extreme weather a climate change reality the nation can no longer ignore

Justices must be “hyper vigilant to make sure they’re not letting personal biases creep into their decisions, since judges are people, too,” Barrett said at a lecture.

In a blitz of TV ads and a last-minute rally, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom urged voters to defeat a looming recall that could remove him from office

North Korea says it has successfully tested newly developed long-range cruise missiles over the weekend

Three Republican presidential prospects have sharply condemned President Joe Biden’s handling of the end of the war in Afghanistan

Today’s California electorate looks far different than it did 18 years ago: It’s less Republican, more Latino and Asian, and younger — all trends that favor Gov. Gavin Newsom, so long as he can get his voters to turn out.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned that other districts will be sued if they defy the state prohibition on mask mandates.

A new analysis by the moderate Democratic group Third Way runs counter to popular perceptions of rising crime nationwide.

Officials in some urban areas are raising concerns about a federal rule limiting how federal coronavirus relief money can be spent on high-speed internet