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The House Judiciary Committee will vote Wednesday on establishing a commission on reparations — potentially granting perks to people eight generations removed from slavery.  The measure is expected to pass with…

The House took a step forward on a slavery reparations bill Friday by scheduling it for debate and a vote in the Judiciary Committee. The bill would set up a commission to study reparations. If voted out of committee, the matter would…

The Daily BeastSackler Family Secrets: New Book Reveals OxyContin Heirs’ Self-Pitying EmailsDavid L. Ryan/GettyA new book on the Sackler family—the secretive billionaires who kept America steadily supplied with OxyContin—contains private…

"I’m not surprised that without any of that background information or context that voters would not support these changes," Harrington said. Support Local Journalism…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A popular Palestinian leader imprisoned by Israel has registered his own parliamentary list in May elections, his supporters said Wednesday, in a last-minute shakeup that could severely weaken President Mahmoud…

Republican state lawmakers rushed through a broad law Thursday making it harder to vote that disproportionately targets Democratic and Black voters in a battleground vital to the 2020 election and future presidential and congressional…

The law, co-authored in 1994 by then-Sen. Joe Biden and last reauthorized in 2013, was designed to protect women from domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking through a wide array of programs, from creating a national domestic…

Here's what to know about the battle over voting rights happening right now. Florida, Arizona and Georgia were all battleground states in 2020 and host US Senate races in 2022. Republican legislative majorities and GOP governors are…

The Senate has confirmed Congresswoman Marcia Fudge to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, placing the longtime Ohio lawmaker in charge of the agency just as Congress passed new benefits for renters and homeowners who…

61% support the $1.9 trillion economic relief bill proposed by Biden, and several key provisions of the bill are even more popular. 85% say they support policies in the bill that would provide larger tax credits for families and make…