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Bracing for a SCOTUS decision that could limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act, liberal legal experts and advocates are assessing what to do if the court strikes down a key part of the law.

Commemorations marking the 50th anniversary of JFK's iconic "Ich bin ein Berliner" address kick off just days after President Barack Obama's scheduled speech on Wednesday in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

The Obama administration will not drop its pursuit of tougher gun laws, Vice President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday, warning lawmakers who opposed earlier gun legislation of political hell to pay.

House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he does not “see any way” of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that does not have backing from a majority of the House’s GOP members, calling the border security provisions in the measure currently making its way through the Senate “weak” and “laughable.”

First Read: The president didn’t get everything he wanted on trade agreements and Syria, but all in all, it could have been worse.

The U.S. is to give more than $300 million in additional “life-saving humanitarian assistance” to Syrians caught up in the country’s civil war, Barack Obama has announced, taking the total amount given since the conflict began to nearly $815 million.

The U.S. is to give more than $300 million in additional “life-saving humanitarian assistance” to Syrians caught up in the country’s civil war, Barack Obama has announced, taking the total amount given since the conflict began to nearly $815 million.

President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they would sign an agreement on securing and destroying nuclear material to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, replacing a 1992 deal that expired on Monday.

Syria’s raging civil war was set to top the agenda at the two-day Group of Eight summit of world leaders in Northern Ireland starting Monday.

President Barack Obama and key congressional leaders may agree on current national security surveillance policies, but a heated debate is under way outside Congress -- perhaps most fiercely between two former and powerful vice presidents, Dick Cheney and Al Gore.

The series of controversies in Washington over the last month have taken a political toll on President Barack Obama, according to one new poll released Monday that showed his ratings slipping.

First Read: President Obama faces off against Russian President Putin over Syria as the G-8 summit kicks off in Ireland.

Syria’s raging civil war was set to top the agenda at the two-day Group of Eight summit of world leaders in Northern Ireland starting Monday.

Syria’s raging civil war was set to top the agenda at the two-day Group of Eight summit of world leaders in Northern Ireland starting Monday.