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(L-R) Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)

Politics & Government

The top 10 Senate seats that are most likely to flip to the other party

4:23pm April 11, 2022

by Domenico Montanaro

Though more Republican-held seats are up for grabs in November, Democratic struggles mean the GOP has improved its likelihood to take control of the Senate. Here are the key contests to watch.

President Biden listens as Steve Dettelbach, nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, speaks on measures to combat gun crime from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 11, 2022.

Politics & Government

Biden picks a former federal prosecutor to lead the ATF as it targets 'ghost guns'

4:08pm April 11, 2022

President Biden has picked Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney in Ohio, to lead the agency as it cracks down on so-called "ghost guns," which are assembled from parts and lack serial numbers.

Politics & Government

News brief: Russia-Ukraine war, French presidential runoff, Biden takes on ghost guns

6:58am April 11, 2022

Russia has named an overall commander for its war with Ukraine. France's president is heading into a runoff with his far-right rival. Gun deaths in the U.S. have hit record numbers in recent years.

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Pakistan's opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, center, speaks while other opposition parties leader watch during a press conference after the Supreme Court decision, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 7, 2022.

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Pakistani lawmakers to elect new prime minister after Imran Khan ouster

5:33am April 11, 2022

by The Associated Press

An opposition lawmaker and a brother of disgraced former prime minister appears as a leading contender to replace Khan.

Politics & Government

Biden will announce steps to curb gun violence in the U.S.

5:07am April 11, 2022

The action includes finalizing regulations that deal with ghost guns — weapons that do not have serial numbers that can be used to track them and are sometimes sold as kits to be assembled at home.

Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones, a Democrat, listens to debate on April 9, 2022, before lawmakers voted to override Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of a measure to expand abortion access in the state.

Maryland lawmakers expand who can perform abortions after overriding governor's veto

2:30am April 11, 2022

by Ayana Archie

In his veto, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wrote that "The bill risks lowering the high standard of reproductive healthcare services received by women in Maryland."

Demonstrators gather on the steps of the Florida Historic Capitol Museum in front of the Florida State Capitol, March 7, 2022, in Tallahassee, Florida

Not just Florida. More than a dozen states propose so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bills

7:59pm April 10, 2022

The specific details regarding the bills vary between state. But overall, they seek to prohibit schools from using a curriculum or discussing topics of gender identity or sexual orientation.

Politics & Government

Trump endorses Dr. Oz for the U.S. Senate

5:25pm April 10, 2022

by Emma Bowman

Donald Trump is basing his support for Dr. Mehmet Oz on electability, as Republican candidates vie for the former president's support in key battleground states.

Body bags with the remains of Kosovo Albanians buried in mass graves in Serbia in 1999 lay in Batajnica near Belgrade in August 2005 prior to being returned to Kosovo.

From Nuremberg to Darfur, history has seen some war criminals brought to trial

9:12am April 10, 2022

by Ron Elving

Responsibility is difficult to prove conclusively in a war zone, and evidence might have to link such acts to national leaders far from the battlefield. But it has happened.

Politics & Government

Money from the COVID Paycheck Protection Program was allegedly largely misspent

9:04am April 10, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe asks Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who chairs the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, about fraudulent pandemic aid.