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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Thursday to begin debating a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, after Democrats made eleventh-hour changes aimed at ensuring they could pull President Joe Biden's t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered her first Supreme Court majority opinion Thursday, ruling against an environmental group that had sought access to government records. President D...

DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas police officer was arrested Thursday on two counts of capital murder after a man told investigators that he kidnapped and killed two people at the officer's instruction in 2017,...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - A Trump may be on the ballot next year - but not Donald Trump. The former president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is eyeing the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Breaking from other Southern GOP governors, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey extended her state's mask order for another month Thursday but said the requirement will end for good in April...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Capitol Police have requested that members of the National Guard continue to provide security at the U.S. Capitol for another two months, The Associated Press has learned. Defens...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats passed sweeping voting and ethics legislation over unanimous Republican opposition, advancing to the Senate what would be the largest overhaul of the U.S. election la...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Law enforcement was on high alert Thursday around the U.S. Capitol after intelligence uncovered a "possible plot" by a militia group to storm the iconic building again, two months af...

Loving classic films can be a fraught pastime. Just consider the cultural firestorm over "Gone With the Wind" this past summer. No one knows this better than the film lovers at Turner Classic Movies w...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House warned that the U.S. may consider a military response to the rocket attack that hit an air base in western Iraq where American and coalition troops are housed. A U.S....