WASHINGTON — Momentum is growing in Congress to repeal a 2002 resolution authorizing the U.S. to go to war in Iraq, as both chambers take up measures to clear it from the books.

“I strongly and fully support repealing the 2002 authorization for the use of force in Iraq,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in his first formal ...Read more

House lawmakers said Wednesday that the Housing and Urban Development Department’s popular Community Development Block Grant program may need updates to get money to smaller, rural communities.

The formula used to determine which cities are guaranteed the CDBG money each year hasn’t been updated since the program was started in the 1970s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina cannot enforce a state law that sought to tighten restrictions on abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in one of the latest challenges to existing abortion law.

The ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a Mississippi law that would prohibit most abortions after 15 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris held her highest profile event since grabbing the helm of the White House’s voting rights efforts earlier this month, meeting with a group of rogue Democratic state lawmakers from Texas Wednesday to highlight what they call a national threat to democracy.

Harris’ White House outreach could help ...Read more

Democrats face a vexing question in rounding up the votes later this summer or fall to ensure that the U.S. government doesn’t default on its obligations to its citizens and creditors around the world.

Do they simply raise the statutory debt ceiling to a new, higher dollar figure that could top $30 trillion? Or do they use the maneuver ...Read more

Over the past 20 years, China has absorbed millions of U.S. jobs. It has stolen billions of dollars' worth of intellectual property from American companies and made itself critical to global supply chains, at times with the help of U.S. investors.

This must stop. The Chinese regime is an authoritarian, powerful, anti-democratic superpower that ...Read more

Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Federal attorneys asserted in a new filing that an appeals court judge erred in overturning the death sentence for Tsarnaev over claims jurors knew too much about the highly publicized case to impose the...Read more

Democrats face a vexing question in rounding up the votes later this summer or fall to ensure that the U.S. government doesn’t default on its obligations to its citizens and creditors around the world.

Do they simply raise the statutory debt ceiling to a new, higher dollar figure that could top $30 trillion? Or do they use the maneuver ...Read more

If Joe Biden presses Russian President Vladimir Putin on his record of handling political opponents, the U.S. president should be prepared for a debate about the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill.

Asked recently if he ever ordered the assassination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Putin told NBC News that he had not, before quickly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden has his first head-of-state sit-down with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, it will be a test of mettle and wills, each leader confident in his ability to hold the upper hand over the other.

Both have been fixtures in global politics for years, but the relationship between their two countries is at...Read more

WASHINGTON — Fearful of Republicans regaining control of the Senate next year, progressive Democrats are ramping up their calls for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to step down from the bench to ensure that President Joe Biden's replacement could be confirmed while the party remained in control.

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., on Tuesday joined...Read more

WASHINGTON — Final passage of a sweeping budget reconciliation package to enact President Joe Biden’s fiscal policy agenda on infrastructure, child care, education and more likely won’t occur until sometime this fall, according to the House Democrats’ point man on budget issues.

House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth told reporters after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats are holding out hope for a national voting overhaul, a top priority and crucial piece of strategy for the party and the Biden administration. But they are running out of time to get it done with redistricting looming and Republicans pushing new state-level voting restrictions.

Two rival voting rights bills are currently...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia Court of Appeals has thrown out a $1.4 million verdict against a Marietta abortion clinic whose office park claimed the clinic's protesters were an unacceptable nuisance.

If the court ruled otherwise, the clinic could not operate anywhere, said the opinion, issued Monday. It also would "expose a broad array of legal ...Read more

President Joe Biden plans to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. will respond to actions that conflict with its national interests during a meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday in Geneva, according to White House officials.

The White House expects the meeting to last four to five hours, but doesn’t anticipate any concrete ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators said Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s pause of more than $1 billion in funds for southwest border wall construction did not violate the law as some Republican lawmakers had claimed.

Instead, the Government Accountability Office said withholding the funds from obligation is a “programmatic delay�...Read more

BRUSSELS – President Joe Biden, nearing the end of an overseas trip aimed at restoring strong relationships with America's allies, announced an agreement Tuesday with the European Union to end a 17-year dispute over aircraft subsidies. The announcement appeared to give the president another "win" a day before his much anticipated meeting with ...Read more