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Defying Republican leaders, the House voted on Wednesday to take up a bill to impose sweeping new sanctions on Russia and provide additional aid to Ukraine, after a bloc of G.O.P. defectors...

As the Trump administration escalates its efforts to obtain the medical records of transgender adolescents from many of the nation’s major children’s hospitals, patients and their parents are asking federal courts to...

Five Americans who had been quarantining at a medical facility in Omaha for possible hantavirus exposure returned to their home states on Monday, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.They...

In late April, a lawyer for the Justice Department told a federal judge that her colleagues had been in the midst of negotiations with a Rhode Island hospital about turning over gender-transition...

new video loaded: Could Talarico’s Religious Approach Win Texas?James Talarico, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas, has connected his political positions to his Christian faith. Our religion reporter Ruth Graham...

People in the western Colorado city of Grand Junction would like their hometown to be known for its desert hiking trails and sunny golf courses, red-rock canyons and river rafting.But these days,...

“So —” “I’m going to the University of Oregon.” “Colorado School of Mines.” “Syracuse University.” “C.S.U.—L.A.” “I wanted to be like a medical student. I realize now that I want to become...

President Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy focuses on “violent left-wing extremists,” as well as narcoterrorists and Islamic terror groups. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs explains what it means.By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Gilad Thaler,...

Our chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, looks at President Trump’s sinking approval ratings. How do they compare with polling from other recent presidencies?

Wednesday’s cabinet meeting at the White House began, as it always does, with a long monologue from President Trump about the state of his presidency. About eight minutes in, while talking about...