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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court a second time to reinstate a rule that women must pick up an abortion pill in person during the COVID-19 pandemic. The request to...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg to head the Transportation Department, according to three people familiar with the plan...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The state of Virginia will soon replace a statue of Robert E. Lee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. And there are now five finalists for the person whose statue will replace the Con...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect on Tuesday, saying the Electoral College "has spoken." The Republican leader's statement, d...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a detailed COVID-19 aid proposal on Monday in hopes it would serve as a model for its battling leaders to follow as they try to negotiate a f...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Kansas that sought to revive a law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. A federal appeals court had declared the la...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a rough year. The next one might be even tougher as a recall effort appears to be gaining momentum, fueled partly by outrage over the first-term...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defense system, in a striking move against a longtime partner that set...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland's electors cast their 10 votes for president on Monday for Democrat Joe Biden, who won Maryland's popular vote in November. The electors gathered in the Maryland State H...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior U.S. officials will begin receiving coronavirus vaccines this week as part of updated federal continuity of government plans that now include terrorism and pandemics as threat...