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    South Carolina Rep. Jerry Govan, D-Orangeburg, looks over a map during a House redistricting committee public hearing on Nov. 10, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. Federal judges are deciding whether South Carolina's new congressional maps are legal in a lawsuit by the NAACP which says the districts dilute Black voting power.

    Federal court tells South Carolina to redraw gerrymandered House map

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    Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, is comforted by her mother Ruby Freeman, at the Capitol on June 21, 2022.

    Biden will award presidential medal to Black election workers targeted by...

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    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., look at vote totals during the roll call vote on the motion to adjourn for the evening in the House chamber as the House meets for a second day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023.

    The GOP lawmakers blasting anti-Kevin McCarthy fringe helped bankroll their campaigns

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    Rick Scott

    New Rick Scott ad promotes same plan that hindered Senate GOP...

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    Matt Gaetz

    'It makes us look foolish': Republicans admit speaker brouhaha is hurting...

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    Brent Spence Bridge

    Transportation Department allocates $2 billion to repair vital interstate bridges

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    Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a ceremonial swearing-in of Sen. Patty Murray as president pro tempore, with Murray's husband Rob Murray by her side, on Jan. 3, 2023.

    Murray becomes first female president pro tempore in Senate

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    Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise

    House GOP's day one agenda for new majority: Slash IRS funding...

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    The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol plays a video of former President Donald Trump during a hearing on July 21, 2022.

    Jan. 6 panel shuts down after referring Trump for crimes

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    Joe Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act

    Democratic-led Congress and President Joe Biden delivered on key promises in...

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    Donald Trump

    Trump's tax returns released after long fight with Congress

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    Rep. Jamie Raskin says he's been diagnosed with lymphoma

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    Yashinari Effinger kisses her spouse Adrian Thomas as they are declared a married couple by Rev. Ellin Jimmerson, minister to the community from Weatherly Baptist Church, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 in Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Ala. Gay couples began getting married in Alabama on Monday morning, despite an 11th-hour attempt from the state's chief justice, an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, to block the weddings.

    'We don't want to leave': If Obergefell is overturned, LGBTQ+ people...

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    This image provided by WJLA shows migrant families on a bus near the Vice President's residence after they arrived in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022.

    Texas Gov. Abbott defends stunt that left migrants in below-freezing temperatures

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    A transgender flag is seen waving during the We Wont Be Erased transgender rights movement during a gathering at City Hall in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, October 27, 2018.

    'It's your job to be you': American Girl book promotes inclusion...

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    Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, works at his desk in his office at the National Institutes of Health, Dec. 19, 2017, in Bethesda, Maryland.

    Anthony Fauci's parting advice: Stick to the science

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    Postal Service pledges move to all-electric delivery fleet

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    House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks at a news conference on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021, to complain about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the leadership of President Joe Biden, and guidelines on face masks by the Centers for Disease Control.

    Scalise ran claiming to be a 'conservative maverick,' but just votes...

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    Photos, from top to bottom, of Dylan Hockley, Mary Sherlach and Daniel Barden hang in the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation offices, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, in Newtown, Conn. Hockley, Sherlach and Barden were among the 20 first graders and six educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School 10 years ago.

    A decade after Sandy Hook, grief remains but hope grows

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    Ron DeSantis

    Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis promotes judge recently ousted by voters

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    Josh Hawley

    Josh Hawley urges young men to 'log off the porn and...

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    First lady Jill Biden joins a White House Domestic Policy Council meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.

    Biden restarts task force on immigrants' success in US

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    Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, left, and Special Presidential Coordinator Amos Hochstein, right, listen as President Joe Biden speaks about energy and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House

    Gas prices drop to 15-month low as Biden's fuel release leads...

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    Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, left, and Nancy Pelosi, right, attend "Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come" in New York on Sept. 15, 2016. Documentarian Alexandra Pelosi is releasing a new film focusing on her mother’s rise in Congress over three decades. The film follows her mother, literally, through the Capitol and into the behind the scenes as she negotiates key votes for major pieces of legislation.

    Nancy Pelosi's career chronicled in new film by her daughter

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    Rioters supporting President Donald Trump storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.

    Jan. 6 committee refers Trump for possible prosecution

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    George Santos

    House GOP leaders won't say if they stand by newly elected...

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    Rioters on January 6, 2021, at Capitol

    Jan. 6 committee to vote Monday on riot criminal referrals

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    A marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on March 9, 2020.

    Congress acts to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author

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    Kevin McCarthy

    House Republicans are limping toward their new majority in total disarray

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    Joe Biden with COVID Response sign

    White House reveals winter COVID-19 plans, more free tests

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