Associated Press

The Respect for Marriage Act offers federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages, but does not automatically require states to issue marriage licenses for those unions.

The money that will help approximately 350,000 unionized employees’ pensions was made possible thanks to the American Rescue Plan as championed by President Biden.

The Speak Out Act regulates the use of nondisclosure agreements in employment agreements, specifically with the goal to prevent it from covering up sexual misconduct or harassment.

Griner was released in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, but another American prisoner in Russia, Paul Whelan, was not. Still, ‘The Biden Administration made the right decision to bring Ms. Griner home,’ Whelan’s brother said.

The Special Counsel’s Office has requested ‘any and all communications in any form’ officials in certain counties had with Trump officials between June 2020 and January 2021.

A former Congressman that is being charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to help the Venezuelan government under Nicolas Maduro had contact with multiple congressional Republicans and members of the Trump administration.

The Trump Organization could be fined up to $1.6 million as a result of the conviction.

Democrats from across the country will come to Washington this week to focus on discussing how they can protect LGBTQ rights, voting rights, and democracy.

The Supreme Court of the United States may allow Republican-led state legislatures across the country to bypass other branches of their state’s government when it comes to regulating elections for federal office.

President Joe Biden was to honor French President Emmanuel Macron with the first state dinner of his presidency Thursday evening.

The NAACP alleges that the Republican-led legislature in South Carolina made maps for U.S. House seats to purposely ‘render Black voters unable to meaningfully influence congressional elections’ in the state.

McEachin had recently been reelected for a fourth time to represent the Congressional district comprising most of Richmond, Virginia’s state capital.

Despite several investigations led by Republicans in GOP-led states, there has yet to be any proof of election fraud from the midterms and most election results are being certified without issue.

In at least eight states that allow exemptions to bans on abortion for life-threatening conditions, a patient’s mental health is not included.

A new report published by the Pew Research Center says the religiously unaffiliated are much more likely to say that climate change is an extreme or very serious problem.

Five members of the Oath Keepers right-wing extremist group face several felony charges in addition to seditious conspiracy.

Before the U.S. midterm elections this month, Elon Musk urged his ‘independent-minded’ Twitter followers to vote Republican.

‘It’s always better with 51, because we’re in a situation where you don’t have to have an even makeup of the committees,’ President Joe Biden has stated to stress the importance of reelecting Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Oregon is at least the sixth state to consider mitigative measures for people accused of marijuana-related crimes since President Joe Biden issued pardons on a federal level in October.

A court order to allow voting this Saturday for the state’s Senate runoff between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock, overturning guidance by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, will remain in effect.

California is believed to be the first state to have approximately 1 in 10 of their state lawmakers who are members of the LGBTQ+ community.

‘For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect,’ the California Democrat said Thursday.

While there is no exact public timeline for the conclusion of investigations into former President Donald Trump, there is at least three known probes continuing despite his declaration that he will run for president in 2024.

A 10-year-old placed on a bus transporting migrants from Texas to Pennsylvania needed treatment at a hospital after reportedly suffering from dehydration and a high fever.

The court ruling deems the law passed by Georgia Republicans in 2019 invalid, but it isn’t immediately clear if an appeal or a court ordered stay would put that on hold.

Failed Republican candidate Kari Lake has yet to concede that she’s the first GOP nominee to lose the gubernatorial race in the Grand Canyon State since 2006.

The court’s decided not to review an appeal by gun dealers, who claimed a ban on ‘bump stocks,’ or devices used to modify semiautomatic weapons into machine guns, violated their rights.

Georgia Republicans passed a law after the 2020 Senate runoff elections significantly shortening the time between the general election and runoff races, giving voters less time to register.

At least 50 Senators will be caucusing with Democrats starting in 2023, meaning the party will retain the majority of members and control of the agenda in Congress’ upper chamber.

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state rejected a flawed version of the question. The measures approved Tuesday could curtail the use of prison labor in Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont. In Louisiana, […]