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Thursday’s State of the Union address opens a new phase of the presidential campaign

The hearing is part of the next step in their lengthy impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, though republicans have yet to produce evidence of misconduct by him while in public office

Commuters may be subjected to random searches of their bags and backpacks, a move a leading civil rights group warns against

Phillips, a 55-year-old multimillionaire, was the only elected Democrat to challenge Biden for the presidency. He often argued the U.S. President was too old to serve a second term

Countries in the region are suffering more pronounced economic changes than any other region, according to a study by the United Nations Development Program

The former president won the vast majority of the delegates allocated in the 15 states that voted March 5

Committees in the state Senate and House approved nearly identical bills that would protect providers from lawsuits and criminal prosecution for the ‘damage or death of an embryo’ during IVF services

Sinema’s border-security ambitions, and her career in Congress, were swallowed by the partisanship that has paralyzed Congress

The rule would bring the average credit card late fee down from $32. The bureau estimates banks brought in roughly $14 billion in credit card late fees a year

The court’s decision came just hours after the Justice Department asked it to intervene

His announcement sets up an expected race with Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who held the No. 2 leadership post until he was term-limited five years ago

The Fifth Circuit vacates the lower court’s decision, but gives the Biden administration seven days to appeal the ruling, moving the case closer to being heard at the Supreme Court

The launch has been closely watched since last July, when the Food and Drug Administration said the once-a-day Opill could be sold without a prescription. Manufacturer Perrigo noted there will be no age restrictions on sales

Teixeira, 22, admitted illegally collecting military secrets and sharing them with other users on Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games. Prosecutors plan to seek nearly 17 years in prison for him

Polls are showing a big advantage for Joe Biden among Democrats, and for Donald Trump among Republicans. Even so, after this week they will still not have the mathematical majority

The Republican and Democratic candidates are coming into this week’s contest with unusually large leads over their rivals

Weisselberg will be sentenced to five months in jail. Prosecutors accused him of lying under oath when he answered questions in a deposition in May and at the October trial about allegations that Trump lied about his wealth

Moscow’s official doctrine allows these weapons to be used if ‘the very existence of the Russian Federation is under threat’

Scientists are using the Maui wildfire as a chance to study how chemicals and metals from burned plastics, lead paint and lithium-ion batteries might affect delicate reef ecosystems

Over the course of U.S. history, those aides have absorbed the personalities, the quirks, the speech cadences of the most powerful leader on the globe

With Republicans now holding a 219-213 edge, with three vacancies, it’s hard to understate the stakes

Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified from being president again and ineligible for the state’s primary

The Republican National Committee had made the pledge a prerequisite for all candidates, and nearly every major contender signed, except for Donald Trump

The National Weather Service said conditions would improve as winds weakened Sunday, but precipitation would quickly return, with heavy snow in some areas and rainfall in others

The South Carolina senator failed in his own bid for president. But his enthusiastic campaigning for the former president has been generating buzz about his prospects as Trump’s potential running mate

If Trump becomes the nominee, he will likely need to win over some of the moderates who supported Biden in 2020 if he wants to return to the White House

Academics and democracy analysts said the presidential primary system, in which a small percentage of the nation’s voters often determines the candidates, is one of several quirks that make the United States stand out