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After a ban of more than two decades, the federal government is finally funding studies on how to prevent death and injury from firearms.

Gun control measures are likely going nowhere in Congress, and they have also become increasingly scarce in most states.

Texas Tech coach Tim Tadlock begins the press conference with an opening statement on Uvalde, Texas.

Understanding the 2022 Midterm ElectionsNovember’s midterm elections are likely to shift the political landscape and impact what President Biden can accomplish during the remainder of his first term. When are the midterm elections? The midterm elections determine control of Congress: The party that has the House or Senate majority gets to organize the chamber and decide what legislation Congress considers. Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. Here are the most interesting Democratic primaries and Republican primaries to watch as Republicans and Democrats try to nominate their most electable candidates.

Deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 students and 2 adults.

The House’s top law enforcement official says members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds.

Rep. Andrew Clyde, perhaps best known for equating the January 6 rioters to "tourists," also owns a firearm and law enforcement supply store.

The acting secretary of state in Pennsylvania had ordered a recount in the GOP Senate primary between Mehmet Oz and David McCormick.

Another atrocity has shocked the nation’s conscience. Lawmakers and voters alike need to act.

"Why even be in Congress if you don't believe in doing your job?" Ocasio-Cortez replied after Boebert tweeted: "You cannot legislate away evil."

Members of Congress began a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday by accusing north suburban-based Abbott Laboratories of negligence

Since the slaughter at Sandy Hook, Congress hasn't addressed the gun violence epidemic. Now in Texas more are dead.

Most of the executive order focuses on federal law enforcement agencies, such as requiring them to review and revise policies on use of force.

Most of the executive order focuses on federal law enforcement agencies, such as requiring them to review and revise policies on use of force.

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on policing Wednesday, the second anniversary of George Floyd's death.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has urged Congress to pass the CHIPS for America Act in order to safeguard national security and the future of the economy.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to improve accountability in policing.

Fox NewsFox News guest Buck Sexton said Tuesday on Tucker Carlson Tonight that those who criticize politicians who can but won’t enact legislation to help prevent mass shootings like the one at a Texas elementary school earlier in the day are “hurting the situation.”Host Tucker Carlson hypothesized that mental illness could have played a part in the shooting. Many on the left, he claimed, “don’t seem that interested in the fact that there are an awful lot of tragically, sometimes dangerously men

Congress has been unable to pass substantial gun violence legislation since the collapse of a bipartisan Senate effort in the aftermath of Newtown.

Congress has been unable to pass substantial gun violence legislation since the collapse of a bipartisan Senate effort in the aftermath of Newtown.

"My innocent son Joaquin was shot four times with an AR-15. And today, we saw an 18-year-old in Texas was able to carry a weapon and kill kids inside their school."

"My innocent son Joaquin was shot four times with an AR-15. And today, we saw an 18-year-old in Texas was able to carry a weapon and kill kids inside their school."

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy came to Congress representing Sandy Hook.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit took on a challenge to the freshman congressman's candidacy.

A state elections board investigation recommended five of 10 GOP candidates for Michigan governor be disqualified from the primary ballot because they submitted thousands of fraudulent signatures in their nominating petitions.

Fresh off J.D. Vance’s win in Ohio, the tech entrepreneur upped his investment in Arizona, where his friend and protégé is courting Trump’s endorsement.

With millions raised to defend her seat in Congress and five fellow Republicans running to take it, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene faced her first reelection vote Tuesday in a GOP primary race that tests how her conservative Georgia constituents judge her turbulent freshman term. Greene, 47, became a celebrity of the Republican Party's far-right fringe with her election two years ago as she embraced former President Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, engaged in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and launched partisan attacks that critics said promoted racism and violence. Greene remained on the primary ballot Tuesday in Georgia's 14th Congressional District after a failed effort to disqualify her by opposing voters.

Redrawn congressional maps pit two Democratic incumbents against each other in the Atlanta suburbs.

Congress wrote a covid relief law that tried to block the firm from accessing money. But the Small Business Administration still gave money to companies in which it has a significant investment. The Washington Post's investigation highlights the disconnect between lawmakers who approve funding and the federal agencies that spend it.

The Biden administration officials have been warning for weeks that the country has spent nearly all the money approved for COVID-19 response.

The apology by Abbott's CEO came after President Joe Biden signed a new law to deal with the baby formula shortage.

Rep. Bob Good won the GOP nomination on Saturday for the 5th Congressional District, according to the Richmond-Times Dispatch.

The White House is planning for what it calls “dire” contingencies that could include rationing supplies of vaccines and treatments this fall if Congress doesn’t approve more money for fighting COVID-19.

For some female incumbents running for reelection in Congress this year, holding their seats comes with a new challenge.

The Associated Press said the race was too close to call.

Summer and election season tend to be unproductive.

Some Democrats claimed early that these were akin to "reconnaissance" tours. Here's where the Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) revelation fits.

The former two-term mayor cast himself as a leader who can quickly get results for New Yorkers still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, inflation and other challenges.

Georgia's senior congressman is facing his toughest challenge from Republicans in more than a decade.

The former New York City mayor says he'll run in the newly drawn 10th Congressional District.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his Brooklyn home.

Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master's thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin with the dismantling of the U.S. military and end with the destruction of the country’s democracy.

A closely divided House has approved legislation to crack down on alleged price gouging by oil companies as prices at the pump continue to soar.

Both Finland and Sweden already meet many of the requirements to be a NATO member.

Republicans argued that the plan didn't force federal agencies to look for formula that could be redirected to U.S. homes immediately.

While a bipartisan House bill would let Medicare enrollees contribute to health savings accounts, it also would eliminate a couple of current HSA benefits.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would cost about $105 million over five years, with most of the money going toward hiring staff.

The measure's sponsors say it would fill intel-sharing gaps among the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

The House has passed legislation that would devote more federal resources to preventing domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

The US House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the nation’s Capitol is nearing a more public phase of its work. A series of eight prime-time televised hearings will begin on June 9. Afterward, the committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans will report its findings sometime before the midterm elections on Nov. 8. Former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies continue to call the probe a witch hunt focused on scoring political points.

A federal appeals court has ruled that details of some of the conversations between the nation’s four largest railroads about their rates can now be included in lawsuits challenging billions of dollars they charged their customers.

Dr. Ashish Jha said the U.S. will not have enough money to provide vaccines for all Americans in the fall without money from Congress.

Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed.

A closely-watched Republican primary was unsettled Wednesday morning, as a hedge fund manager was neck-and-neck with celebrity TV doctor backed by former president Donald Trump.

The largest wildfire has charred more than 468 square miles over the last 42 days, and evacuation orders remain in place for some villages.

A seat famous for its political importance to African Americans has a rare situation where there's no incumbent on the ballot.

Congress held its first hearing on unidentified flying objects in half a century, but they are digging more into "unidentified aerial phenomena."

New Mexico's governor said Tuesday that given the ferocity and swift movements of a record-setting wildfire burning in the northeastern part of the state, the damage will be significant with estimates of burned homes and other structures likely to range between 1,000 and 1,500. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham stressed that was only a rough estimate but likely not an exaggeration, saying it's clear to state and federal officials that there are many victims who have lost their homes and have had their businesses affected. “And their families are suffering,” the governor said during a news conference with Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell and top state officials.

The man accused of opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation in California was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder. (May 17)

Understanding the 2022 Midterm ElectionsNovember’s midterm elections are likely to shift the political landscape and impact what President Biden can accomplish during the remainder of his first term. When are the midterm elections? The midterm elections determine control of Congress: The party that has the House or Senate majority gets to organize the chamber and decide what legislation Congress considers. Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. Here are the most interesting Democratic primaries and Republican primaries to watch as Republicans and Democrats try to nominate their most electable candidates.

It seeks to close the gap between the often misleading raw vote totals and the ultimate tally.

Congress held its first hearing in half a century Tuesday on unidentified flying objects.

The hearing, which will include testimony from military intelligence officials, is the first on the subject since 1969. It will be livestreamed on the House Intelligence Committee's YouTube channel.

Voters are casting their ballots in Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania.

Crypto executives and lobbyists are moving to gain a foothold in Washington as lawmakers scramble to find a way to regulate the industry.

Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.

Food insufficiency among U.S. families with children increased by 12 percent in February after child tax credit payments under a federal Covid-19 relief plan expired, according to new data from Children’s HealthWatch, a nonpartisan group of health care workers and researchers.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

The Jan. 6 committee’s stunning decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

Allies of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the presumptive next president of the Philippines, appear set to dominate both chambers of Congress, alarming activists after the late dictator son's apparent election victory restored his family to the seat of power.

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is defying leaders of both parties and has single-handedly delayed until next week Senate approval of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine and its allies withstand Russia’s three-month old invasion.

The Senate has fallen far short in a vote toward enshrining Roe v.

Fighting for decades over abortion policy, Congress is about to run into the political limits of its ability to act in either direction on the issue.

Congressional Democrats are preparing a plan that would boost President Joe Biden’s requested $33 billion Ukraine aid package to nearly $40 billion.

President Joe Biden says 20 internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes.

It's been clear in recent years that people in the United States don't have much faith in their institutions.

Lawmakers are working toward a compromise on President Joe Biden’s $33 billion Ukraine aid request that they hope to have ready as soon as next week.

A coalition including the four medical schools at the nation's historically Black colleges and universities has announced a new initiative aimed at increasing the number of Black Americans registered as organ donors and combating disparities among transplant recipients.

Furious Senate Democrats are vowing to vote on legislation to protect abortion access for millions of Americans.

President Joe Biden has congratulated Democratic U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown of Ohio for her primary victory over former state Sen. Nina Turner.

A federal appeals court has heard arguments over a lower court's decision to block a challenge of North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s candidacy this year by voters who cited a section of the Constitution addressing insurrection.

Proposals to ban stock trading by lawmakers are gaining ground in Congress and on the campaign trail.

Democratic leaders have announced an effort to give the Federal Trade Commission increased authority to crack down on oil and gas companies that engage in price gouging.

President Joe Biden wants Congress to provide $33 billion to bolster Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

President Joe Biden has signaled he might forgive some student loan debt and further extend the federal moratorium on repayments.

The Biden administration is calling on Congress to expand authority for the federal and local governments to take action to counter the nefarious use of drones in the U.S. The White House released an action plan that calls for expanding the number of agencies that can track and monitor drones flying in their airspace.

Voting rights groups have sued Florida over a congressional map drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis and passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature.

The Supreme Court has upheld the differential treatment of residents of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress was within its power to exclude them from a benefits program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

President Joe Biden has pledged $1.3 billion more for new weapons and economic assistance to help Ukraine in its strong but increasingly difficult battle against the Russian invasion.

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress.

Democrats have spent years pledging to address the gun violence that plagues communities across the U.S. But a surge of mass shootings over the weekend served as a reminder of how little has been accomplished.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that a group of Georgia voters can proceed with legal efforts seeking to disqualify U.

After the Capitol riot, longtime Congressman Jim Langevin said he thought for a brief moment that the foolishness and recklessness of dividing the country would finally stop.

A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process.

A North Carolina man has become the second member of the Proud Boys to plead guilty to conspiring with other members of the extremist group to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote.

The U.S. Navy was once enamored with speed.

Congress has overwhelmingly voted to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid reports of atrocities.

Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19 with treatments, vaccines and other steps.

Former Trump administration appointee Connie Conway is headed to a June runoff election for a vacant U.S. House seat in California and could face progressive Democrat Lourin Hubbard.

Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill that President Joe Biden signed recently.