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US Vice-President Kamala Harris has called for an assault weapons ban, in the wake of a shooting at a primary school classroom in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children. Ms Harris had been…

Several members of Congress, particularly Democrats facing difficult re-election races, have clamored in recent days for Mr. Biden to invoke the law to ease the formula shortage. It was not clear how…

Image source, Getty Images The US should prioritise funding for school security over aid to Ukraine, former President Donald Trump has said days after 19 Texas pupils were killed. If the US can se…

Though several high-profile speakers have dropped out, including Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, several major political figures will attend the National Rifle Associations annual convention in Houston af…

Edward Lindsey is a former Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives and its majority whip. He is a lawyer in Atlanta focusing on public policy and political law. The views expressed …

Bush (CNN)The FBI has been investigating an alleged plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush that involved an Iraqi national in the United States whose reconnaissance included driving to the ne…

There is a desire to move on here and its not just among the John Kasich and Bill Weld crowd, said Mr. Merrill, alluding to two former Republican governors who ran as anti-Trump moderates in the stat…

If I had hair to catch fire, Mr. Carville said, it would catch fire. Symone Sanders, a former top Biden aide now with MSNBC, sought to deflect blame outside the White House. Where is the D.C.C.C., t…

s President Biden on Saturday signed a new $40 billion package of military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as the country braced for a drawn-out war of attrition in its eastern regions, vowing that it…

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Demonstrators in Istanbul chanted songs and waved Turkish national flags Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Turkey's largest city of Istanbul in s…

6 Plans At the time, the judge, David O. Carter of Federal District Court for the Central District of California, ordered the release of more than 100 of Mr. Eastmans emails; Mr. Eastman turned them over to …

Base The knife came to her and she didnt back up, Ms. Johnson said. Every Trump establishment individual that came after her, she stood there and fought. Ms. Barnettes rise stunned Mr. Trump, who never c…

s Watching what happened in Charlottesville was a major factor in the president deciding to run, Ms. Jean-Pierre said on Monday. Many of those dark voices still exist today, and the president is determ…

s By Yaroslav Lukov & Matt MurphyBBC News Image caption, "Sweden will strengthen Nato," Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson says Turkey's president has restated his opposition to Finland and Sweden jo…

Image caption, Finland shares a 1,300-km (810-mile) border with Russia Finland has confirmed that it will apply for Nato membership, despite warnings from Russia's President Vladimir Putin that aban…

WASHINGTON Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, visited Ukraine on Saturday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky, leading the latest delegation of American lawmakers to the …

Congressional talks to overhaul police departments failed last year after nearly a year of negotiating. The Justice Department has announced federal investigations into police departments in Minneapo…

Now, Ms. Harris has a chance to become the voice of the administration on a subject which is complicated for her boss. Mr. Biden, a lifelong Catholic, was opposed to Roe in the early days of his car…

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s On the day of victory over Nazism, we are fighting for a new victory, Mr. Zelensky said as he was shown walking alone through the streets of Kyiv, past government buildings protected with barriers an…

Deeper Into War Putin wants us to make it a proxy war, said Fiona Hill, a former Russia adviser to two presidents now at the Brookings Institution. Putin is still telling people outside Europe this is just a repeat …

By Jean MackenzieBBC Seoul correspondent Kim Jong-un is testing North Korea's weapons with renewed urgency, as South Korea prepares to inaugurate a new, hard-line president. After years of stalemate…

s Image caption, North Korea's military might has recently been on display North Korea has fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the sea off the east coast of the peninsula, according to S…

By Thom PooleBBC News Image caption, Putin and Alina Kabaeva pictured in 2004 Russia is already under unprecedented sanctions and now the EU could target Alina Kabaeva, a politician, media boss, fo…

Mr. Biden was first sworn into the Senate in January 1973, just 17 days before the Supreme Court issued Roe. and at the time he accused the justices of going too far. In an interview a year later, he…

Asked about the administrations legislative goals in an interview this week, Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff, said the targets for the next several months included a bill to support America…

Why Aren’t They Running on It in 2022? One party is running on democracy and elections in 2022, and its not the Democrats. Despite a broad consensus on the left that the countrys most revered institutions are in trouble, with President B…

Judge McBurney told potential jurors to announce that they had a potential conflict if they were convinced that a crime had definitely been committed in regard to the 2020 elections or they were conv…

Mondale at Memorial There was, indeed, a quintessentially Minnesota nice quality to the event. Eulogists spoke of Mr. Mondales Norwegian stoicism, Midwestern values and dedication to helping others. The marching band fr…

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MELBOURNE, April 30 (Reuters) - Ian Chesterman was elected president of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) at the governing body's annual general meeting on Saturday, replacing long-serving boss …