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Rep. Troy Carter, D-La., and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak outside the U.S. Capitol after arguments were heard on the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Brown)

Supreme Court case could lead to loss of Black representation in Congress, but the scope is unknown

October 15, 2025 at 8:34 p.m.

Such a change seemed more plausible Wednesday after the court's conservative majority indicated a willingness to limit race-based districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

FILE – New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

President Donald Trump’s indictment of New York attorney general Letitia James stirs concerns for Black women leaders

October 11, 2025 at 4:35 p.m.

The indictment of James, who had previously prosecuted the Trump Organization for business fraud, immediately sparked debate over whether the justice system had been politicized for President Donald Trump’s personal...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, as the U.S. government is on the brink of the first federal government shutdown in almost seven years.. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Government funding vote fails again in Senate as hopes fade for quick end to shutdown

October 3, 2025 at 3:58 p.m.

On the third day of the shutdown, another Senate vote to advance a Republican bill that would reopen the government failed on a 54-44 tally.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tries to defend COVID-19 vaccine stance in raucous Senate hearing

September 4, 2025 at 4:20 p.m.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing.

President Donald Trump speaks with members of law enforcement and National Guard soldiers, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Guard troops on DC streets for Trump’s crackdown will start carrying guns

August 22, 2025 at 4:40 p.m.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown, the Pentagon said Friday.

Armed Officers place handcuffs on a man from within an apartment complex, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, in the Petworth neighborhood of northwest Washington. The officers pictured had “Washington Field Office” on their shirts underneath tactical gear that said Police. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Trump’s federal law-enforcement crackdown ripples through DC neighborhoods

August 19, 2025 at 5:11 p.m.

While troop deployments and foot patrols in downtown D.C. and around the National Mall have gotten the most attention, life in historically diverse neighborhoods like Columbia Heights is being reshaped.

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, left, and Attorney General Pam Bondi look on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime

August 12, 2025 at 9:31 a.m.

President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, arguing the extraordinary...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., flanked by Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., left, the House minority whip, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., chair of the House Democratic Caucus, talks to reporters about the decision by Speaker Mike Johnson to leave Washington early as Republicans clash over the Jeffrey Epstein files, at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files

July 23, 2025 at 4:54 p.m.

A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, attends a Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing on his nomination to be U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mike Waltz pledges to make UN ‘great again’ at Senate confirmation hearing

July 15, 2025 at 4:22 p.m.

Mike Waltz painted an image for lawmakers Tuesday of what the United Nations would look like as the U.S. reviews its support, opting to go “back to basics” under a...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks behind his security detail through a crowd of reporters as he tries to push President Donald Trump’s signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts across the finish line even as conservative and moderate GOP holdouts slow that effort, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The House gives final approval to President Trump’s big tax bill in a milestone for his second-term agenda

July 3, 2025 at 4:54 p.m.

House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage.

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