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President Joe Biden listens as Steven Dettelbach, nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, speaks on measures to combat gun crime from the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday.

Biden picks former prosecutor for top role at gun regulation agency

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 11, 2022 at 4:14pm
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was in Colorado Monday as part of an administration initiative to persuade rural voters of the benefits of infrastructure spending to their communities.

Biden to visit Iowa ethanol plant as officials hit road to tout rural aid efforts

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted April 11, 2022 at 4:06pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during an event celebrating her confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court with President Joe Biden on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday.

Ketanji Brown Jackson nods to history in first remarks after Supreme Court confirmation

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 8, 2022 at 3:29pm
On July 15, 2015, then House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Nita M. Lowey, D-N.Y., leave a meeting with House Democrats where Biden briefed the members on the nuclear deal with Iran.

Deja vu permeates as lawmakers ready to debate Iran nuclear deal

By Rachel Oswald
Posted April 8, 2022 at 9:30am
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at the U.S. Capitol before the Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court by a vote of 53-47, on Thursday.

Democrats revel in history during Supreme Court confirmation vote

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 7, 2022 at 4:54pm
President Joe Biden walks alongside Col. David Bowling, Garrison Commander of Joint Base Myer Henderson Hall, upon arrival at Fort McNair in Washington on Monday.

Biden’s actions and words since Warsaw align with walked-back declaration that Putin must go

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 7, 2022 at 12:42pm
Former President Donald Trump with White House aide Dan Scavino.

House votes to hold Navarro, Scavino in contempt of Congress

By Chris Marquette
Posted April 6, 2022 at 6:45pm
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., says he's not sure when negotiations will restart.

Vote on COVID-19 spending bill indefinitely delayed

By Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted April 6, 2022 at 5:35pm
White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said new sanctions bar investment by U.S. companies in their facilities in Russia.

Biden to block new investments in Russia by Americans

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 6, 2022 at 11:26am
President Joe Biden fist bumps former President Barack Obama after Biden signed an executive order aimed at strengthening the Affordable Care Act during an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday.

Obama and Biden reunite to tout signature health care law

By Ariel Cohen and Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 5, 2022 at 3:32pm
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra has been tasked to lead the interagency look at long-term COVID-19 effects.

White House broadens initiative to address long COVID-19

By Lauren Clason
Posted April 5, 2022 at 2:30pm
Then-President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walk to the signing ceremony of the Affordable Care Act at the White House on March 23, 2010. Obama will mark the 12th anniversary of the law by joining Biden at the White House.

Biden administration to fix glitch in health care law to mark anniversary

By Ariel Cohen
Posted April 5, 2022 at 5:00am
An asylum seeker waits to board a Customs and Border Protection bus to an immigration facility, after turning herself in at the U.S-Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona, in February.

Biden administration will rescind border expulsion policy

By Caroline Coudriet and Suzanne Monyak
Posted April 1, 2022 at 2:08pm
President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till anti-lynching act, making lynching a hate crime under federal law.

Biden signs federal anti-lynching bill into law

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 29, 2022 at 5:48pm
President Joe Biden speaks about Russia's war in Ukraine outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday.

Biden’s non-gaffe on Putin suggests a foreign policy-steeped president resisting his instincts

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 29, 2022 at 2:09pm
President Joe Biden proposed $773 billion for the Pentagon in his fiscal 2023 budget request. But inflation could erode the military's buying power.

Inflation may shrink Biden’s big defense plan

By John M. Donnelly
Posted March 29, 2022 at 9:30am
President Joe Biden's budget proposal for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 would raise spending by about 10 percent over the omnibus package he recently signed.

Top takeaways from Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget request

By Peter Cohn
Posted March 28, 2022 at 12:17pm
Vice President Kamala Harris has announced new steps on voting access.

Biden administration to give federal employees time off to vote, work the polls

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 24, 2022 at 3:03pm
President Joe Biden attends a G7 leaders meeting on Thursday during a NATO summit on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels.

White House will resettle 100,000 Ukrainian refugees

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted March 24, 2022 at 1:29pm
Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of State, seen here testifying on Capitol Hill, died Wednesday at 84.

Madeleine Albright, first female secretary of State, dies at 84

By Rachel Oswald
Posted March 23, 2022 at 5:27pm
National security adviser Jake Sullivan discusses President Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Europe for meetings with NATO and EU leaders during a White House press briefing on Tuesday.

White House expects further sanctions, energy measures from Biden’s European trip

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 22, 2022 at 5:42pm
President Joe Biden, 79, rides his bike through Cape Henlopen State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Del., on Sunday.

‘We don’t know that’: A curious answer about Biden and a 20-year-old getting COVID

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 22, 2022 at 3:26pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Tuesday, March 15.

Republicans risk alienating key voters with ‘beyond the pale’ attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 22, 2022 at 6:00am
Reporters watch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s virtual address to Congress in the Capitol Visitor Center on March 16, 2022. While the overall public approves of measures the U.S. is taking to counter Russia's war on Ukraine, a partisan divide is looming, writes John T. Bennett.

‘That time is gone’: Americans are in an anti-war mood — but partisan differences are bubbling

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 17, 2022 at 3:20pm
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks with reporters at the House Democratic Caucus "issues conference" in Philadelphia on Thursday.

‘White flag’: Three reasons why progressives’ executive order push is striking

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 15, 2022 at 5:30pm
Senate Banking ranking member Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., led the Republican opposition to Sarah Bloom Raskin, including by preventing the panel from getting the quorum needed to vote on her nomination.

Raskin asks Biden to withdraw her nomination for Fed vice chairman

By Caitlin Reilly and Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 15, 2022 at 4:10pm
House Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., is working on legislation that would suspend Russia's most-favored-nation trade status.

Senate confirms Pagan in USTR post tasked with addressing Russia’s WTO status

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted March 10, 2022 at 5:53pm
Airline passengers wearing face masks at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

Airline, transit mask mandates extended through April 18

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 10, 2022 at 2:08pm
Ukrainian refugees are seen at a train station in Krakow, Poland, on Monday. The wait for visitor visas at the U.S. consular post in Warsaw recently grew to 134 days.

Backlogs force Ukrainians to face long visa waits

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 9, 2022 at 6:45am
Regular gas is priced at $4.99 a gallon at an Exxon station in Washington on Tuesday.

Biden warns of higher pump prices as he bans Russian energy

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted March 8, 2022 at 1:33pm