On Tuesday, the committee heard from election workers and state officials on Tuesday as they described President Donald Trump's pressure to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock gained national attention in January 2020 when he won a high-profile Senate runoff race. But before that, he was best known as a senior pastor at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. He is running for reelection this year. His new book "A Way Out of No Way" looks at his personal and professional career. He joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.
With gripping testimony, the panel is laying out in step by step fashion how Trump ignored his own campaign team's data as one state after another flipped to Joe Biden, and instead latched on to conspiracy theories.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has laid out a roadmap for the series of hearings it is holding this month as it examines President Donald Trump's responsibility for the melee.
A COVID-19 vaccine that could soon win federal authorization may offer a boost for the U.S. military: an opportunity to get shots into some of the thousands of service members who have refused the other coronavirus vaccines for religious reasons.
Speaking at the White House, Biden sought to drive up pressure on Congress to pass stricter gun limits after such efforts failed following past attacks.
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President Joe Biden praised New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday for her success in curbing domestic extremism and guns as he tries to persuade a reluctant Congress to tighten gun laws in the aftermath of horrific mass shootings.
The World Health Organization's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it's spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission.
"When in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?" Biden said at the White House shortly after returning from a five-day trip to Asia that was bookended by tragedy.
