When Zalmay Niazy was a 9-year-old boy in Afghanistan, he said, he was playing with some friends one day when a group of Taliban rode into town and demanded that he bring them some bread -- or else his family would be harmed.
Republican Gov. Jim Justice issued a stark warning to West Virginians on Tuesday as he urged more of his state's residents to get a Covid-19 vaccine: "If you're not vaccinated, you're part of the problem."
Maryland is paying its jobless residents pandemic unemployment benefits -- including the $300 federal supplement -- for another 10 days after the state lost several court battles to end the programs on Saturday.
While July Fourth is the holiday that most directly celebrates Americans' common heritage, this year it comes as their extreme divides underscore how difficult it has become for any president to set a unified direction for the country.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday will speak on his administration's efforts to ramp up outreach and increase access to Covid-19 vaccines, particularly for young people, according to a White House official, after the nation fell short of his July 4 vaccination goals.
The House Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers, on Tuesday officially endorsed the deal on an infrastructure framework reached between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators and called for "an expeditious, stand-alone vote in the House."
Democrats might control the White House and Congress, but Donald Trump-style conservatism is on a roll in Republican states and Washington, raising the stakes for Joe Biden in a summer critical to his goal of a transformational presidency.
California Republicans have been struggling in the political wilderness, failing to capture a single statewide office since 2006 in a state where Democrats outnumber them two-to-one. But longtime GOP policy adviser Lanhee Chen is hoping to change that at a time when the recall election of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is reenergizing the party's voters.
Rep. Jim Cooper has represented Nashville in the House for nearly 20 years, and a nearby district before that for another dozen, serving in Congress longer than anyone else in Tennessee. In the deep red state, he and his brother John -- Music City's mayor -- are the keepers of one of its last Democratic
A Republican official from a key Arizona county said Monday that he had rejected calls from President Donald Trump's White House in the weeks following the 2020 election because he believed "whatever needed to be said, needed to be said in a courtroom."
