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Raised after her father’s death by a single mother, Childs was the first in her family to attend college and the first Black woman to become partner at a major South Carolina law firm. She has been unusually outspoken during her judicial career on social issues that directly relate to her traumatic childhood and her experiences pushing boundaries as a Black woman in the South.

Thousands of early ballots have been rejected because voters did not meet a new requirement to provide an identification number inside the return envelope.

The inventory of unprocessed returns and related correspondence was provided by the IRS’s taxpayer advocate service to the tax-writing committees in Congress. The Treasury Department, the IRS’s parent agency, warned in January that it expected its response to be subpar this year.

When the senator was asked about his thoughts on the “Freedom Convoy” and the potential for it to spill over into Los Angeles, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl, or Washington, he said he's "all for it."

This divide among Democrats could have ramifications for the 2024 presidential election as well.

“We’re now two weeks into the siege of the city of Ottawa,” Premier Doug Ford said. “I call it a siege because that’s what it is. It’s an illegal occupation. This is no longer a protest.”

President Biden signed an executive order splitting frozen Afghanistan assets between victims of the 9/11 attack and humanitarian aid.

City data that extend deep into the surge show how vaccination status correlated to outcomes.

In 2009, the network pumped oxygen into the Tea Party movement. Now, it's encouraging a trucker-style protest in the U.S.

The Post is analyzing the 2022 U.S. House map in this redistricting tracker as states finalize their congressional boundaries for the next decade. Republicans and Democrats are going to great lengths to tip districts in their favor and accusations of gerrymandering and lawsuits have followed.

It’s an understandable comparison — but an overworked one.

If nominated and confirmed, Jackson would be the first former federal public defender on the high court and the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with extensive criminal defense experience.

There aren't a lot of ways to enforce the law requiring preservation of White House records.

Trump isn't admitting wrongdoing, but he's also not fighting such accusations as vociferously as he usually does.

Kelly is the husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot in the head while greeting constituents outside a Tucson supermarket 2011.

The Republican governor, under pressure from a former Trump adviser, incited a redistricting battle with his own party, roping the state’s two legislative chambers into the fray and asking the state’s highest court to pick sides.