The president has signed the stopgap measure passed by Congress to avert a Friday night government shutdown. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images hide caption
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Ginni Thomas leaves for a break during a closed-door meeting with House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona appeared alongside President Biden when he announced his student loan relief plan on Aug. 24. On Thursday, the administration quietly changed its guidance around which borrowers qualify for this relief. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
In a reversal, the Education Dept. is excluding many from student loan relief
A fox walks near Upper Senate Park on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on April 5. Multiple people reported being bitten by the fox, that later tested positive for rabies. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 28, 2022. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing on July 21, 2022. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, is seen on a screen during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol in June. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are still working to pass legislation to fund federal agencies and avoid a potential government shutdown. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption
In this 2020 file photo, an election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections in Doral, Fla. Florida is one of about half of U.S. states that have ballot curing provisions. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption
Voting explainer: In many states, there's a process to fix an error with your ballot
Social media company Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Facebook parent company says it has removed a Russian network pushing a pro-Kremlin view of the war in Ukraine and a Chinese network targeting the U.S. midterm elections. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
The White House is proposing pilot programs for Medicare to cover medically tailored meals — like the ones in this file photo — as well as nutrition and obesity counselling. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption
This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice, and partially redacted by the source, shows documents seized during the Aug. 8 FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. AP hide caption
A voter passes large signs spelling out "Vote Here" in Minneapolis in September 2016. Voters in Minnesota can start casting their ballots for this year's midterm elections on Friday. Jim Mone/AP hide caption
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden pack food boxes while volunteering on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Jan. 16, 2022. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Activists unfurled a banner calling David Malpass a climate denier on the World Bank headquarters after he refused to say if he believed man-made emissions contributed to global warming. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The debate stage is set ahead of the start of the second and final presidential debate Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy speaks in Monongahela, Pa., on Friday, about Republicans' agenda if they regain control of the House in the midterm elections. Barry Reeger/AP hide caption
House GOP unveils its legislative roadmap if they win back the House in November
Pages from a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruling that lifts a judge's hold on the Justice Department's ability to use classified documents seized by the FBI at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Jon Elswick/AP hide caption
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol is seen during a public session in July. The panel has scheduled another hearing for next week. Alex Brandon/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
The Presidential Election Reform Act was introduced by Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. (left), and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., both of whom sit on the Democratic-led House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
The House just passed a bill that would make it harder to overthrow an election
President Joe Biden addressed the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York, slamming Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
New York State Attorney General Letitia James, pictured in February, filed a civil lawsuit on Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, saying he "falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself, to cheat the system." Seth Wenig/AP hide caption