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U.S. Senate GOP tries to block states from spending some of their COVID...
Missouri Republican U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall stands at the left and Wisconsin Republican...
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Medicare should include dental coverage, dentists tell U.S. Senate panel
Dr. Brian Jeffrey Swann, who is on the board of directors for Remote Area Medical and practices dentistry in Tennessee, told a U.S. Senate committee about low-income people who drive from far distances...
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U.S. House rebukes Biden administration over pause in heavy bomb shipments to...
A bill passed Thursday, May 16, 2024 by the U.S. House says military assistance withheld from Israel “shall be delivered to Israel not later than 15 days after” the bill becomes law and requires the...
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Abortion ballot measures could lift Dems in U.S. House races, campaign chief...
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Suzan DelBene speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 19, 2023. DelBene spoke to reporters Friday, May 17, 2024, about how abortion...
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U.S. Sen. Katie Britt introduces bill to end a state’s Medicaid funding if it...
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama addresses a crowd at a breakfast hosted by the Chamber of Commerce in Montgomery on Nov. 3, 2023. (Alander Rocha/Alabama Reflector)WASHINGTON — Two Republican U.S....
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Biden to announce 1 million claims granted for VA benefits under toxic...
The PACT Act added 23 illnesses to the list of toxic-exposure-related ailments presumed to be connected to military service. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to...
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U.S. Senate Dems tie state abortion bans to fewer beginning physicians
Washington state Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray speaks during a press conference on reproductive rights on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Also pictured from the left are Dr. Raegan McDonald Mosley, CEO of...
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Trump signals he’s open to state limits on contraceptive access, then insists...
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was asked if he supports “any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception.” (Photo of a package of birth control pills by Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Donald...
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Members of the U.S. Senate face a vote on whether they support contraception...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Wednesday that the Senate will vote in June on legislation guaranteeing the right to access contraception. Shown is a packet of birth control pills....
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Wide scope of presidential emergency powers could be reined in by Congress...
Former President Donald Trump used his emergency powers to construct a border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. In this photo, construction continues on a new section of the barrier on Jan. 8, 2019, as...
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Forced sterilizations for people with disabilities decried by members of...
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks during a press conference on reproductive rights for people with disabilities outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Jennifer...
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Biden urges Hamas to accept new Israeli ceasefire plan intended to end war
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his hush-money trial before speaking on the Middle East at the White House on May 31, 2024 in...
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Fauci defends his work on COVID-19, says he has an ‘open mind’ on its origins
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus...
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Bird flu’s spread from poultry to cattle to humans provokes worry among feds,...
The USDA has performed more than 17,000 tests for avian influenza on cattle, with a total of 67 herds affected throughout nine states. (Getty Images)Dairy farmers throughout the country are on guard...
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‘Democracy begins with each of us,’ Biden says at site of D-Day invasion in...
U.S. WWII veteran PFC John M. Wardell, of New Jersey, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken watch President Joe Biden deliver a speech on June 7, 2024, at Pointe du Hoc, near Le Bavent, France,...
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Trump says he’ll work ‘side by side’ with group that wants abortion ‘eradicated’
Former President Donald Trump on Monday, June 10, 2024, in a pre-recorded message told The Danbury Institute, a group opposed to abortion, that he hopes to protect “innocent life” if elected in...
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State abortion bans forcing interstate travel, U.S. Senate panel hears
Lauren Miller, who was denied access to an abortion in Texas, listens as O. Carter Snead, a professor at Notre Dame University speaks during a hearing with the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Capitol...
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects attempt to limit access to abortion pill
Packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a...
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U.S. Senate Republicans reject Democrats’ bill on IVF protections
U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Thursday to bolster protections for in vitro fertilization. (Getty Images)WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats’ attempts to bolster reproductive rights...
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States struggle with unreliable federal funding for making sure elections are...
Hired security personnel wait for voters outside the Leon County Supervisor of Elections office on November 3, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The...
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