It unleashes multiple options for Democrats to advance parts of Biden’s agenda — including immigration and Medicare legislation — with 51 votes in the 100-member Senate rather than the 60 typically needed to move major legislation past filibuster threats.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday it was “self-defeating” for then-President Donald Trump to assume that cutting the corporate tax rate to 21% from 35% in 2017 would make the economy more competitive and unleash growth. Yellen said that competing on tax rates came at the expense of investing in workers.

Jill Biden is bringing a new focus to an old cause: supporting America’s military families.

Rob Richie with FairVote, an electoral reform organization, says there is a bipartisan push to adopt ranked-choice voting across the country.

President Joe Biden was set to announce Tuesday that he is shaving about two weeks off his May 1 deadline for states to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccines.

As North Carolina is expected to gain power in Washington, political boundaries back home are set to shift yet again.

Rep. Alcee Hastings, the fiercely liberal longtime Florida congressman who was dogged throughout his tenure by an impeachment that ended his fast-rising judicial career, has died at 84.

Millions of American service women and men saved the world from tyranny in World War II, but some went above and beyond in their service.

Officer William “Billy” Evans, an 18-year veteran of the force, died Friday after the driver rammed into the barricade near the Capitol.

The administration also is marking the holiday by sending out 2021 commemorative Easter Egg Roll eggs to vaccination sites and hospitals.

The so-called “plus-up” payments are going to people whose 2020 tax returns show they are owed more money.

The court said there was nothing left to the case after Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter and ended his presidential term in January.