The Latest Breaking News from Washington D.C.

WASHINGTON — Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s pick bipartisan backing to become the first Black woman justice.

WASHINGTON: Russian forces have begun to pull out of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power site, a US defence official said Wednesday, a day after Moscow said it would scale back attacks on two key Ukrainian cities.

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris — whose father emigrated from Jamaica — will meet Wednesday with the island nation’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, at the White House, marking another historic moment for the first Black and South Asian vice president.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans Thursday to invoke Cold War powers to encourage domestic production of critical minerals for electric vehicle and other types of batteries, according to people familiar with the matter.

Of the 15 members who’ve left the U.S. House since 2018, at least half have gotten into the business of political influence-peddling.

WASHINGTON — Doctors and demographers recently noticed another tragic example of how polarization shapes America: The pandemic has killed more people in the nation’s Republican enclaves than its Democratic strongholds. They explain the gap by pointing to Republican resistance to vaccines and the GOP’s more cavalier approach to combating the…

WASHINGTON — With rare speed, the U.S. government has determined that Russian forces are committing war crimes as they attempt to bombard Ukraine into submission, a brutal onslaught that has displaced millions and likely killed thousands of civilians.

Washington says it is working with Nato partners to mitigate the risk of a potential nuclear incident linked to the Kremlin’s invasion

The RSPCA has taken four birds into the care of a Sunderland-based rescue