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The Pentagon on Thursday released a 12-page report that offers the administration's examination of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021. The review comes as House Republicans have pledged to use their new majority to scrutinize the withdrawal, including the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate at the Kabul airport that killed 13...

A Democratic lawmaker in Tennessee claimed she survived a vote to expel her from the state legislature while her colleague didn't because she is White and he is Black.

Kansas legislators on Thursday approved a bill that would allow parents to opt their children out of LGBTQ-themed public school lessons.

Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Thursday named former prosecutor Carolyn Bosn to succeed state Sen. Suzanne Geist, who resigned to focus on her Lincoln mayoral bid.

The Oregon Legislature has authorized Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek to expand urban growth boundaries to allow chipmakers to build factories.

Republican members of Congress are criticizing the White House after it released a report on how the administration handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Critics ripped the Biden administration following its unveiling of new proposals to Title IX rules expanding the meaning of sexual discrimination to include gender identity.

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was accused of failing to report a litany of lavish gifts from GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow.