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Eligible Venezuelans will be able to live in the United States with temporary protected status for another 18 months, the Biden administration announced Monday, although Venezuelans who have arrived in the country after March 8, 2021, will not be eligible for the immigration relief.

Republican congressional candidates did better than expected last month in California’s Central Valley, the purple, 450-mile stretch down the middle of a deep blue state.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell’s suggestion that Republicans could pursue federal legislation to ban abortion everywhere has supplied potent political ammunition to Democrats’ midterm campaign strategy.

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Independence Day Florida ad has vaulted him deep into the national conversation about the 2024 presidential race as Democrats on social media hail him as a tell-it-like-it-is stalwart.

MIAMI — Florida’s fight over abortion restrictions — the 24-week threshold that has been in effect for years or the new 15-week limit approved by the Legislature but blocked by a judge on Thursday — may be just getting started.

WASHINGTON — The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol has presented a lot of evidence about the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

NEW YORK — At her New York sentencing Tuesday, Ghislaine Maxwell addressed victims who had suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and herself, telling them she hoped her conviction would provide them closure.

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci said he didn’t call Sen. Roger Marshall a “moron” during a January congressional hearing — at least not directly.

WASHINGTON — John Wood, the former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Wednesday officially entered the U.S. Senate race in Missouri, adding an independent candidate to an already crowded field of congressional hopefuls.

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, revoking a woman’s constitutional right to abortion, a rabbi and lawyer in Boynton Beach was preparing to take action against Florida. The state’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks, he said, directly targets Jews.

WASHINGTON — Senior officials in the Biden administration traveled to Caracas on Monday to discuss “the welfare and safety of U.S. nationals in Venezuela,” a State Department official told the Miami Herald.