POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

It’s Washington's enduring question: What does Joe Manchin want.

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.

A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government.

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

A House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is moving swiftly to hold at least one of Donald Trump’s allies in contempt.

Texas Republicans have approved redrawn U.S. House maps that favor incumbents and could decrease political representation for growing minority communities in the nation’s largest red state.

Data shows a massive cargo ship that was supposed to be at anchor repeatedly crossed over an undersea oil pipeline during a January storm.

One of the most prominent figures in the QAnon conspiracy movement says he’s running for Congress in Arizona because the state is at the forefront of the fight by many Republicans over the 2020 election results.

State Sen. Annette Taddeo is entering the Democratic primary for governor in Florida.

Former President Donald Trump has been questioned in a deposition for a lawsuit brought against him by protesters.

Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe Bryant’s widow and others to determine if they truly suffered emotional distress after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, his teenage daughter and seven others.

Iran’s president says the United States should lift the sanctions on his country to prove it is serious about restarting stalled nuclear talks in Vienna.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reclassified a rare Colorado River Basin fish called the humpback chub from endangered to threatened status after a decades-old effort to stabilize its populations.

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.

Washington’s regional Metro system abruptly pulled more than half its fleet of trains from service early Monday morning over a lingering problem with the wheels and axles that caused a dramatic derailing last week.

Some college towns plan to challenge the results of the 2020 census.

House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, saying the tech giant has a “final chance” to correct previous testimony by executives on its competition practices.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed an agreement to continue American support for Georgia's military for six years.

The Biden administration is launching a wide-ranging strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds used in products including cookware, carpets and firefighting foams.

Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications.