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Chuck Collins has the rare distinction of becoming a member of the 0.01 percent and then leaving the ranks of the uber-wealthy — by choice. An heir to the Oscar Mayer fortune, he came into a substantial sum of money in his 20s and decided to give almost all of …

The United States became a net oil exporter in 2020 — marking the first time in the 70 years the government has tracked the trade in petroleum that America shipped more oil abroad than it imported. This sea change, highlighted this week by the Department of Energy, marks America’s emergence …

Republicans in the Texas Senate have passed legislation that would dramatically decrease the number of polling places in heavily Democratic counties, which would disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color in the state. The provision is now under discussion as the state Senate and House attempt to reconcile each chamber’s bill into …

Eighty-seven former federal prosecutors are pushing the Biden Justice Department to end a Trump-era “felon-in-possession” initiative that lets prosecutors shift gun cases out of D.C.’s Superior Court and into federal District Court, where sentences can be twice as long. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Acting U.S. …

Threats against members of Congress are on the rise, and Capitol Police say they are “confident” that the number of cases will continue to increase. According to CBS News’ reporting on a yet-to-be-released Capitol Police Inspector General’s report, the number of threat cases increased from 171 in 2017 and then …

WASHINGTON —The Forever War might at last be coming to an end. On Wednesday, the news leaked out that President Biden planned to announce that American troops would fully withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. To hear the Biden administration tell it, this will not be a partial exit …

WASHINGTON — In a new interview with ABC News, President Biden endorsed the idea of making modest reforms to the filibuster as the bulk of his administration’s domestic-policy agenda heads to the U.S. Senate in the coming months. Biden, in his first extended sit-down interview since taking office, told ABC’s …

It’s early January, and Sarah McBride is sitting at a desk in her parents’ house in Delaware. A “Sarah McBride for State Senate” yard sign is wedged between a bookshelf and the wall — already a relic from the election she won two months earlier. “It’s been a whirlwind,” she …

Democrats have introduced a White House-backed bill to overhaul the immigration system, create an eight-year path to citizenship, and allow undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States to obtain legal status. “We have 11 million undocumented people living, working and raising families in our communities without legal status,” said …

According to multiple New York Times sources, when Trump contracted the coronavirus in October 2020, his condition was far more serious than what health officials or the White House told the public. The paper reported that Trump’s illness was so dire that at one point his blood oxygen sank into …