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If appointed, she would be the first black woman to sit on country’s most powerful bench

After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death gave former President Donald Trump a chance for a last-minute nomination, Democrats ramped up pressure for Breyer to retire. His retiring would eliminate the risk of his seat going to a conservative justice, swaying the court even farther to the right.

The poll was conducted from January 4 to 9 among 507 Black women voters nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.04 percent.

US President Joe Biden has affirmed that he will appoint an African-American woman to the top US court for the first time in history.

An outlandish theory suggesting US Vice President Kamala Harris will soon find herself in a new job has been rubbished by experts.

Justice Breyer, who will leave at the end of the term, has championed the court’s independence from politics. The retirement opens the door for the president to deliver on his promise to nominate the court’s first Black woman.

Kamala Harris assumed office in historic fashion, becoming the first woman to serve "a heartbeat away from the presidency".

There's a reason African Americans, historically, have been drawn to the Baptist sect.

A winter storm is bringing heavy snow and ice to parts of the US and Canada, with millions under weather warnings.

The court in a second unsigned opinion permitted a vaccine mandate on people employed at health care facilities that receive federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid. That measure affects about 10 million workers.

The Covid omicron variant's rapid spread among workers and a bad stretch of winter weather have made a challenging supply chain situation worse.

America’s top Covid adviser Anthony Fauci has been caught dissing a senator on a hot mic moments after a bad-tempered exchange.

Why are Americans, often presumed to be ignorant of history, so obsessed with their nation’s past that they’d rather live sometime between the ’50s and the ’80s – or, in fact, in any decade but the present?

U.S. President Joe Biden slams Trump while making remarks in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill one year after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

A year after the attack, Deutch and other congressional Democrats say the work to safeguard democracy remains largely unfinished as President Joe Biden and lawmakers prepare to commemorate the anniversary of the attack Thursday.

A year after pro-Trump rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers and Americans remain divided over what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, and who is to blame. Here is how Congress has changed since then, and what it could mean for the 2022 midterm elections.

Telecom giant’s stock slump last year shows that investors have yet to buy into management’s promise to reinvigorate the company

Massive snowfall in Virginia caused many drivers, including a senator, to be stuck on major roads for hours

The United States recorded more than 1 million Covid-19 cases on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as the Omicron variant continues to spread at a blistering pace.

A mass exodus has given fuel to critics of the White House as Kamala Harris and Joe Biden face their toughest period yet.