Elizabeth Crisp

The president was expected to unveil his latest plans for increasing vaccination rates during a public address.

The head of the U.S. Public Health Service stressed the current COVID vaccines are effective at saving lives and preventing severe illness.

U.S. President Joe Biden is defending updated CDC guidelines that say even people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 should wear masks in some places.

Republican House leaders are arguing that the bipartisan committee should focus more on whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have done more to secure the Capitol.

While the mission in Iraq will change, it's unclear how many members of the U.S. military will remain in the Middle East country.

Schumer told senators to be prepared to work through the weekend and threatened to keep them in session until the previously scheduled August recess.

Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, is pushing back on Democratic President Joe Biden administration's decision to airstrike in Somalia.

"It's my responsibility as Speaker of the House to make sure we get to the truth on this and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that," Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said.

The Senate has blocked an effort to move forward on a massive infrastructure proposal, after Republicans said they needed more time on the $1.2 trillion plan.

"This panel has lost all legitimacy and credibility," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters during a quickly called press conference at the Capitol.

President Joe Biden's infrastructure deal—tailored to a bipartisan plan to get U.S. Senate approval—faces pushback from progressive Democrats in the U.S. House.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is spending several days in the U.S. this week—but a trip to the nation's capital is not on the agenda.

Biden and Harris, who have spent weeks advocating for broad federal voting rights measures, plan to meet in the coming days with dozens of Texas lawmakers.

Biden is standing by the demonstrations that swept Cuba over the weekend as a historic demand for basic rights in the communist island nation.

At least three people were injured after a moving van carrying fireworks caught fire in an Ohio neighborhood on the Fourth of July.

Just days off his latest campaign-style rally, Donald Trump is again going after Republicans who have distanced themselves from him after he lost the 2020 presidential election.

Hundreds of Afghan security personnel were reportedly forced to retreat into Tajikistan over the weekend after Taliban fighters advanced in Northern Afghanistan.

A New Jersey man has been arrested after allegedly crashing his car near the Washington Monument on Saturday, after narrowly missing several people near the landmark.

Florida's plan to use COVID-19 relief funding to provide $1,000 bonuses to nearly 180,000 educators could be at risk, after the Biden administration warned the proposal falls outside of the scope of how the money is supposed to be used.

While Biden isn't "concerned" that there will be another COVID outbreak, he's urging Americans to stay safe while celebrating in areas with low vaccine rates.

"Right now we have to act and act fast," Biden said at the White House during a meeting with governors from western states. "We're late in the game here."

President Joe Biden is set to unveil a multi-part strategy for combating gun violence in the United States as several major cities across the country have seen large crime surges and brace for further escalating violence through the summer.

U.S. House GOP Whip Steve Scalise is pushing back on Democratic leaders who haven't scheduled a hearing devoted to the origins of COVID-19.

More than 150 million people in the United States have been fully vaccinated—about 45.2 percent. That translates to about 56 percent of adults 18 and older.

Nearly a third of the country supports the unproven allegations President Joe Biden is only in the White House because of voter fraud, after months of former President Donald Trump and his followers continuing to spread baseless claims the 2020 presidential election was "rigged."

President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan resolution on Thursday that makes Juneteenth, the celebration of the end of slavery, a national holiday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave high marks for U.S. President Joe Biden after their meeting in Switzerland this week—despite their rocky relationship of the past.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin met with a group of Texas Democrats Thursday evening who blocked a state law there that would put new restrictions on early voting.

President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law Thursday afternoon legislation that will establish June 19 as the Juneteenth National Independence Day, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who has been a roadblock for Democrats who want to pass sweeping voting legislation, missed out on a meeting with a group of Democrats from the Texas Legislature on the topic this week—sending top aides in his place.