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WASHINGTON — Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, will be the featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, scheduled for Saturday, April 30. “The White House Correspondents’ Dinner celebrates Americans’ freedoms and the... Read More

WASHINGTON — Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., on Thursday introduced legislation to reinstate the Employee Retention Tax Credit that expired for most businesses in September. Originally introduced by the CARES Act in 2020, the program provided employers... Read More

COLUMBIA, S.C. —  South Carolina doctors have the authority to prescribe “off-label” treatments for COVID-19 so long as their patients consent, the state’s attorney general said in a written opinion on Friday. Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the opinion at... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is signaling he plans to push ahead with his nomination this month of the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court even as a survey released Friday shows most Americans do not share his... Read More

BERLIN — With nearly 100,000 Russian troops deployed near the Ukrainian border and poised to invade, international allies have begun to question Germany’s reliability. Germany, under the new leadership of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, has been hesitant to take forceful measures... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas — Texans will begin heading to the polls Monday for early voting in the 2022 primary elections. The contests, the first to be held under the state’s restrictive new voting rules, have already been marred by controversial voting... Read More

SAN ANTONIO — Texas’s dueling gubernatorial candidates took shots at one another during overlapping campaign events on Thursday. Both Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Democratic candidate former United States Rep. Beto O’Rourke made stops in San Antonio to discuss their... Read More

CULPEPER COUNTY, Va. — President Joe Biden traveled to Culpeper County, Virginia, Thursday delivering remarks intended to revive provisions of his now moribund Build Back Better agenda related to lowering health care costs and, particularly, prescription drug prices. Mindful of... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on members on both sides of the aisle to join an effort to draft and finalize a comprehensive cannabis reform bill. Schumer joined with Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Ron... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., has been honored for her leadership in advocating for a stronger U.S. Navy by the nonprofit Association of the United States Navy. Luria, a former Navy ship commander, has pushed for a larger and... Read More

WASHINGTON — A new report from a Washington-based nonprofit offers a blueprint for how states and cities can most effectively address inequities in access to high-speed Internet with funding newly made available by the federal government. Published by the NewDEAL... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Tuesday signed a bill to allow the operation of nuclear power plants in the state, reversing a ban enacted in 1996. The legislation removes two sections of state public health code... Read More

WASHINGTON — America’s forever war in the Middle East officially ended last year but not the risk of terrorist attacks that prompted the U.S. military to strike back with drones, according to witnesses at a Senate hearing Wednesday. Now the... Read More

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Wednesday she would support revisions to legislation banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Pelosi had at first resisted the push for a congressional stock ban as politically vulnerable Democrats... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday vowed to bring a postal service reform bill to the Senate floor for a vote before the Presidents’ Day recess. The bill, which passed in the House with overwhelming bipartisan... Read More

WASHINGTON— House and Senate appropriators announced Wednesday that they’ve agreed on a framework for approving a fiscal year 2022 spending plan. Though they offered little insight into what the framework is, the chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has struck a deal with Japan to remove Trump-era tariffs from roughly 1.25 million metric ton of Japanese steel imports annually. The new deal, which excludes aluminum, will take effect on April 1. In return... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., has inspired 130 of his Democratic colleagues to sign on as co-sponsors of a resolution, introduced Wednesday morning, intended to give House staffers the right to unionize. As previously reported in The Well News,... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is criticizing the Republican National Committee for censuring two House GOP lawmakers investigating the “violent insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it’s not the party’s job to police the views of lawmakers.... Read More

WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap measure to extend funding of the federal government through March and allow negotiations of a more long-term spending package more time to bear fruit. The vote was 272-162, with 51 Republicans... Read More

WASHINGTON — An effort by congressional staffers to launch a new employee union on Capitol Hill appears to be gaining momentum just days after they announced their intention via Twitter. Already a number of prominent Democrat lawmakers have lined up... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. surgeon general repeated his call to action Tuesday to resolve a mental health crisis among American young people that has deepened during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told a Senate panel that more... Read More

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — After months of wooing by senior Republican party officials, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday that he’s decided not to run for the U.S. Senate this year. “I sincerely appreciate all the people who have been encouraging... Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio — For the second time in a month, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected state legislative district maps on the grounds that the Republicans in charge of the process created a map that disproportionately favors their candidates. The ruling... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday evening reinstated a voting map for congressional elections in Alabama that a lower court had said violated the Voting Rights Act. The 5-4 decision came on an emergency appeal from Alabama, which challenged... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House plans to vote as soon as this week on a bill that would overhaul the way the Postal Service does business. After years of financial losses, the House Rules Committee believes it has developed a... Read More

ATLANTA — It has turned out to be a particularly busy Monday for Atlanta politics. First came word that former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has decided to join CNN as a political commentator. Bottoms, who was a guest on... Read More

WASHINGTON — First Lady Jill Biden announced on Monday that plans for two years of tuition-free community college are no longer part of Democrats' social spending package. Although she was disappointed that the community college provisions had to be cut... Read More

WASHINGTON — The House is poised to take up a stopgap funding measure aimed at keeping the government open through March 11 and giving congressional negotiators more time to strike a deal that would fund it through the rest of... Read More

WASHINGTON — After more than decade of squabbling, a bronze likeness of the French architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the man who designed the original city plan for the nation’s capital in 1791, will finally take a place of honor in... Read More