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WASHINGTON — There are many reasons to doubt Congress will send President Joe Biden any legislation to slow a spate of mass shootings, including two key words: “directly related.”

Democrats are skeptical about striking a deal with Republicans to help prevent more mass shootings, which are a new American tradition.

WASHINGTON — Steven Dettelbach starts the most public part of his effort to become only the second person to successfully run the Senate confirmation gantlet to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in a political high-wire act at a hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

No sooner than President Joe Biden had returned home, he was speaking to the country Tuesday as mourner-in-chief after another mass shooting.

Members of Congress have moved particularly quickly to beef up Supreme Court security and address a wave of protests at homes of justices.

The clock is ticking down on the bipartisan effort in Washington as summer recess and then midterms loom.

Lacking any valid reason to reject Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, some Senate Republicans chose an utterly pointless pretext: her refusal to say whether she supports packing the court with more justices, as some of its critics advocate.

The Missouri Republican stumbled to define what a woman before muddling over what a ‘vagina’ was

The Arkansas Republican stumbled to define what a woman before muddling over what a ‘vagina’ was

Ms Jackson is the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

Jackson's accomplishments triggered white Republicans into vicious attacks — and Ted Cruz seized his moment