A Senate bill requiring anyone in Delaware wanting to buy a handgun to first be fingerprinted, undergo training and obtain permission from the state cleared a House committee on Wednesday but will not get a floor vote until lawmakers determine whether the state has enough money to fund it.
President Biden's decision to shorten his upcoming Asia trip and skip a meeting of leaders of the strategic U.S.-India-Japan-Australia "Quad" group to deal with the debt crisis in Washington marks a blow to Washington's campaign to show itself a reliable partner for countering China's increasingly aggressive rise in the region and on the world stage.
Rep. Cori Bush, Missouri Democrat, said she is bringing a congressional resolution in support of reparations for slavery, arguing that federal action is needed to address the $14 trillion "Black-White wealth gap."
The National Archives and Records Administration has received more than 80 calls over the past decade from libraries across the country that have found classified materials in their possession, suggesting the mishandling of government secrets is more widespread than initially thought.
The elections board in Georgia's most populous county, a Democratic stronghold targeted by former President Donald Trump after his narrow 2020 loss in the state, will soon have new leadership.
An independent mayoral candidate was poised Wednesday to defeat his Republican opponent to become the first elected Black mayor in the conservative city of Colorado Springs, Colorado's second largest city.