POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

The number of people in federal immigration detention has risen markedly under President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden may have averted a flood of evictions and solved a growing political problem when his administration reinstated a temporary ban on evictions because of the COVID-19 crisis.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell had vowed to be “100% focused” on stopping President Joe Biden’s agenda.

The Biden administration is taking the first steps toward requiring nearly all foreign visitors to the U.S. to be vaccinated for the coronavirus.

Shontel Brown’s victory for the Democratic nomination for a Cleveland-area congressional seat came almost out of the blue.

A rare clash between the Biden administration and congressional Democrats may have created a blueprint for pressuring a White House that needs to walk a tightrope to satisfy all members of its party to pass its ambitious agenda.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ management of COVID-19 may be boosing his countrywide cachet among Republicans but is drawing fire as Democrats and local health leaders.

President Joe Biden has nominated Mark Brzezinski to serve as his ambassador to Poland.

After a federal eviction moratorium was allowed to lapse this weekend, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new moratorium Tuesday on evictions that would last until Oct. 3.

Two Denver lawyers who filed a class action lawsuit about the presidential election are being sanctioned.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to finally repeal two decades-old measures giving open-ended approval for military action in Iraq.

A Michigan man who called Jan. 6 the “best day ever” is being released from jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge in the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

A tuna fishing boat based in the Pacific island nation of Fiji that has been accused of essentially enslaving its crew was blocked Wednesday from importing seafood into the United States, part of an increasing effort to keep goods produced with forced labor from entering the country.

Federal investigators are digging into the background of a Georgia man who officials say fatally stabbed a Pentagon police officer at a transit station outside the building before being shot and killed himself.

The Pentagon says one of its police officers has died after being stabbed during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene.

The Treasury Department announced Wednesday it will raise $126 billion to finance the government in a series of auctions next week by employing emergency measures to keep from broaching the newly imposed debt limit.

Former President Barack Obama has scaled down his 60th birthday bash due to the surge in the delta variant of the coronavirus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new moratorium on evictions that would last until Oct. 3.

President Joe Biden is calling on resistant Republican governors to “get out of the way” of rules to contain the more transmissible and dangerous COVID-19 variant.

The senators who spent months stitching together a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure package are now trying to sell it to the American people.