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U.S. House passes $468 billion spending package that would stave off shutdown
A 1,050-page package of spending bills approved by the U.S. House on Wednesday, March, 6, now goes to the Senate, where lawmakers are expected to vote on it before the end of the week. President Joe...
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What to expect in Biden’s State of the Union speech Thursday night
In this photo, the U.S. House of Representatives chamber is seen Dec. 8, 2008 in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to deliver his State of the Union...
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Biden warns ‘freedom and democracy are under attack’ in fierce State of the...
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 7, 2024 in Washington, D.C. This is Biden’s last State...
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U.S. Senate sends Biden giant spending package hours before midnight deadline
President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law a package of six bills that cleared Congress on Friday, March 8, 2024. The bills are just part of the equation Congress must solve before the next...
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Biden calls for expanded child tax credit, taxes on wealthy in $7.3 trillion...
President Joe Biden released his $7.266 trillion budget request on Monday, March 11, 2024, as the annual budget and appropriations process begins in Congress and demonstrating White House priorities...
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U.S. Veterans Affairs Department expands IVF access to unmarried and same-sex...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical campus in Rapid City, South Dakota. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs expanded access to in vitro...
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White House budget director says Biden plan would ‘give working families a shot’
Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young testifies about the fiscal 2025 budget request before the Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Screenshot from committee...
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GOP U.S. Sen. Lankford of Oklahoma blocks bill expanding IVF for vets,...
A lab tech uses equipment employed for in vitro fertilization in this undated photo. (Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Washington state Democratic Sen. Patty Murray tried to pass a bill Tuesday that would...
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U.S. House Speaker Johnson says IVF should be protected — just not by Congress
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walks back to his office following a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 11, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson...
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Massive $1.2 trillion spending package that would avert a shutdown released...
A bipartisan agreement on government spending for the remainder of fiscal 2024 emerged just before 3 a.m. on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Congress released the...
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The U.S. Senate repealed Iraq war authorizations a year ago. In the House,...
A U.S. Navy F-18 is prepared to launch off the USS Constellation on Jan. 1, 2003 in the Persian Gulf. The warplanes from the aircraft carrier had the mission to patrol the no-flight zone in southern...
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Congress rushes to approve $1.2 trillion spending package ahead of midnight...
The U.S. House passed a $1.2 trillion government spending bill, giving the Senate hours to clear it before a midnight deadline. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a...
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments Tuesday on abortion pill limits
The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court likely will not issue their opinion on the use of mifepristone until late spring. Oral arguments are set for Tuesday. (Quentin Young/Colorado...
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U.S. Senate in overnight vote sends $1.2 trillion government spending package...
A U.S. Senate vote in the wee hours on Saturday, March 23, 2024 wrapped up the government funding process for fiscal year 2024, six months late. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S....
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U.S. Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of limits on access to abortion...
Opposing protesters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, are kept separated by fencing as U.S. Capitol Police and Supreme Court Police observe. The demonstrators held signs and...
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Biden campaign, Jan. 6 officers decry Trump use of ‘political violence’ in...
Left to right, former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone, Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, and former U.S. Capitol Police...
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Democrats’ quest to hang on to U.S. Senate majority centers on Arizona,...
Democratic U.S. Sens. Jon Tester of Montana, left, and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, right, are seen as the chamber’s most vulnerable incumbent Democrats in 2024. In this photo, Brown, the Senate Banking,...
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An 1873 law banned the mailing of boxing photos. Could it block abortion...
Erin Hawley, a Missouri attorney representing the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, speaks to the media as she departs the Supreme Court following oral arguments in the case of the U.S. Food and Drug...
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In Maryland appearance, Biden pledges federal support to rebuild collapsed...
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Maryland Transportation Authority Police Headquarters, near the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, on April 05, 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland....
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Trump says abortion policy should be left to the states, backing away from...
Former President Donald Trump, the presumed 2024 Republican nominee for president, said in a video on Monday, April 8, 2024, that abortion law should be set by the states. Trump is shown speaking May...
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