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Republicans padded their slim House majority with a special election win in Georgia on Tuesday night.

The Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill backed steps like impeachment and removing the president via the 25th Amendment, even after Trump’s ceasefire announcement.

Trump announces two-week conditional ceasefire after last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan – key US politics stories from Tuesday 7 April at a glance It appears Iran’s whole civilization will not die tonight. With less than two hours before his self-imposed deadline for Iran to surrender or face annihilation, Donald Trump announced that the US … Read more

California gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell’s, D-Calif., campaign broke their silence on allegations circulated by Cheyenne Hunt, a former Capitol Hill staffer and a political media personality, fiercely denying any sexual misconduct towards former staffers or interns. “This false, outrageous rumor is being spread 27 days before an election begins by flailing opponents who have … Read more

Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez hospitalized after shooting in rural Patterson as officials say investigation under way Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a man in a vehicle in northern California on Tuesday. ICE agents conducted a vehicle stop in Patterson, a rural agricultural town in California’s Central Valley about 80 miles east of San Jose, … Read more

Liberals expanded their majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in an election Tuesday, strengthening control in a key battleground state, in a ballot box showdown that drew limited nation attention but had plenty riding on the results. Wisconsin Appeals Court Judge Chris Taylor, a former democratic state representative, defeated Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, a … Read more

Chris Taylor has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, expanding liberals’ majority in the key battleground state.

Hours before President Donald Trump announced a two-week delay in attacking Iran, Pope Leo issued a rare and pointed condemnation, denouncing Trump’s Tuesday morning threat against the country as “truly unacceptable.” Speaking to journalists outside his residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics spoke out against the escalating war … Read more

A federal judge allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to continue being distributed by mail nationwide for now, but warned the Biden-era policy could soon face major legal changes as a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety review of the drug unfolds. The legal challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s January 2023 Risk Evaluation … Read more

Polls in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, where Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris faced off in a special runoff election to succeed former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have closed. NBC News’ Steve Kornacki breaks down the numbers.