Lisa Mascaro

Senate Democrats pass budget package, a victory for Biden

August 7, 2022 at 4:50 p.m.

Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals...

House passes bill banning certain semi-automatic guns

July 29, 2022 at 7:19 p.m.

The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ...

What抖阴ap in, and out, of Democrats鈥� inflation-fighting package

July 28, 2022 at 5:47 a.m.

What started as a $4 trillion effort during President Joe Biden's first months in office to rebuild America's public infrastructure and family support systems has ended up a much slimmer,...

House passes same-sex marriage bill in retort to high court

July 19, 2022 at 5:43 p.m.

The U.S. House prepared to vote Tuesday on legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion access could jeopardize...

Jan. 6 probe: Trump sets rally after ‘unhinged’ WH meeting

September 26, 2022 at 11:25 a.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states' voting machines and then, in...

Coloradan to testify as Jan. 6 committee probes Trump鈥檚 “siren call” to extremists

September 26, 2022 at 11:25 a.m.

Witnesses scheduled for Tuesday's hearing include Jason Van Tatenhove, a Coloradan and former spokesman and self-described "propagandist" for the Oath Keepers extremist group.聽

FILE – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters following a closed-door policy lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, June 14, 2022. McConnell set the strategy to confirm conservative judges, and transform the federal judiciary in motion, engineering the Supreme Court’s makeover by blocking President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland and changing the Senate’s rules to easily confirm Trump’s picks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

As Senate-confirmed justices end Roe, how will voters react?

June 26, 2022 at 9:23 a.m.

It was the Senate Republican partnership with President Donald Trump to confirm conservative judges, and transform the federal judiciary, that paved the way for the Supreme Court抖阴ap landmark ruling to...

Abortion rights activists protest outside of ...

Senate bid to save Roe v. Wade falls to GOP-led filibuster

May 11, 2022 at 3:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate fell far short Wednesday in a rushed effort toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster in a...

President Joe Biden kisses House Speaker ...

Pelosi positive for COVID-19, was at White House with Biden

April 7, 2022 at 8:09 p.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden.

Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser to ...

Ivanka Trump testifies before House Jan. 6 panel

April 5, 2022 at 2:09 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ivanka Trump, former President Donald Trump's daughter and one of those closest to him during the insurrection at the Capitol, is testifying before the House panel investigating...

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