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The Senate will vote Thursday on legislation creating a special commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday moved to open debate on the bill desp...

Suburban cities saw a higher arrest rate than urban cities, despite having substantially fewer violent crime arrests, according to a new finding from a policy group that monitors criminal justice and racial disparities. Why it matters: The findings r...

The Republican Governors Association on Tuesday threw out Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a top Trump ally, after he showed up to its spring conference in Tennessee, he told POLITICO in an interview. Lindell said he had flown to Nashville on Mo...

Taiwan says China blocked deal with BioNTech for COVID-19 shots Taiwan directly accused China for the first time on Wednesday of blocking a deal with Germany's BioNTech SE for COVID-19 vaccines, in an escalating war of words after Beijing offered the...

When a critter spends 17 years underground, it's not easy to study. So as Brood X cicadas break out, they're followed closely by researchers who must cram a lot of work in about six weeks. (Image credit: Jake Socha) Read More

Trump’s latest legal defense is clearly wrong as a matter of constitutional text, historical practice — and common sense. Read More

Anti-immigration Republicans are teeing the U.S. up for big problems in a global baby bust. Read More

Member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation are calling on the Human Rights Council to set up a permanent commission to report on human rights violations in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank in the wake of the latest upsurge of violence in...

“It seemed many of the central institutions in American corporate life suddenly signed on—at least in word or performance—to a simple but genuinely radical demand for racial equality and truth telling,” says Chris Hayes on corporate America’s respons...