Author: Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY

Democrats remain intent on bringing a voting rights bill up for a vote after a week when their efforts to move the legislation forward were stymied.

A Texas law banning abortions after the six-week mark further harms trans and nonbinary people in receiving reproductive care, advocates said.

Experts told USA TODAY no one knows for sure what will happen if the debt ceiling is not raised because the U.S. has never defaulted before.

A US debt default could trigger an economic disaster, economists and Treasury officials say, roiling global markets and hobbling government spending.

Sen. Ted Cruz and University of Southern California law professor Franita Tolson got into a debate over voter ID laws at a hearing Wednesday.

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez told Vogue on the red carpet the dress was meant to be a conversation starter.

The Texas law is one of the most direct challenges on the Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

Cawthorn boosted false election claims that the election was “stolen” and “rigged” at a North Carolina county Republican Party event.

A federal judge revived a Trump-era policy that ordered asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico as they wait for their U.S. court hearings.