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ATLANTA (AP) - Taking their case for a federal voting bill to Georgia, Senate Democrats argued at a field hearing on Monday that their sweeping elections measure is desperately needed to counter the i...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A police official who has run large departments in Maryland and Virginia has been selected as chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which p...

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) - For years, the official letterhead for the small town of Van Horn, tucked neatly among the foothills of the Guadalupe Mountains, read simply: "Farming, ranching, mining." And wh...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration said Monday it would evacuate about 2,500 Afghans who worked for the U.S. government and their families to a military base in Virginia pending approval of th...

A Florida man who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag was sentenced Monday to eight months behind bars, the first resolution for a felony case in the Capitol insurrection.P...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday formally prohibited federal prosecutors from seizing the records of journalists in leak investigations, with limited exceptions, reversing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and accused Beijing of working with crimina...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland's House speaker announced her support Friday for a referendum to legalize marijuana on next year's ballot.House Speaker Adrienne Jones, a Baltimore County Democrat, also...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Democrat Terry McAuliffe significantly outraised Republican Glenn Youngkin in the most recent campaign-finance reports, with McAuliffe also holding a significant lead in cash ...

WASHINGTON - The White House says it's in no hurry to lift COVID-19 international travel restrictions, a day after President Joe Biden said he hoped to have an updated timeline for easing them. Speaki...