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Mr. Perdue, who lost a runoff election last month against Senator Jon Ossoff, is taking the first step in the Republican Party’s effort to try to win back a Senate seat in 2022.

The Energy 202: Biden creates new climate adviser role at NASA Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck NASA is elevating one of its top climate scientists to a new role, a move meant to put greater focus at the space agency on studying the causes and consequences of global warming under President Biden. Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, will serve in the newly created position of senior climate adviser. He is being brought o...

White House open to narrowing who qualifies for stimulus checks but keeping payments at $1,400 per person Jeff Stein © Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 1: White House press secretary Jen Psaki participates in a briefing at the White House on Monday, Feb 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) The White House is open to narrowing eligibility for the next round of stimulus payments but not lowering those payments b...

Republicans chafed openly Thursday over Democrats’ go-it-alone strategy on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, warning they might come to regret it, even as Democrats formalized plans to move forward on their own.

New Georgia runoffs data finds that more Black voters than usual came out. Trump voters stayed home. Bernard L. Fraga, Zachary Peskowitz, James Szewczyk Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff, left, and Raphael G. Warnock bump elbows onstage during a rally with Joe Biden in Atlanta. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) This month, Georgia voters sent two Democrats to the U.S. Senate after runoff elections, breaking with a decades-long history of electing Republicans. Raphael G. War...

Six months after his death, the late civil rights leader and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis will retain a palpable influence in Congress: The state’s two new Democratic U.S. senators — both personal friends and admirers — promise to carry on his legacy. Sen. Raphael Warnock was Lewis’ pastor and stood at his bedside before Lewis died. Sen. Jon Ossoff, the Senate’s youngest current member, served as an intern in Lewis’ Washington office years ago. Both were sworn into off...

How Alvin the Beagle Helped Usher In a Democratic Senate Senator Raphael Warnock was sworn in this week as Georgia’s first Black senator, and he arrived with a canny canine assist. Senator Raphael Warnock and Alvin the beagle during the production of his campaign ad.Credit...Warnock for Georgia The dog had a lot of work to do. He was co-starring in a political ad that had to showcase the candidate’s good-natured warmth. But the ad also needed to deflect an onslaught of racialized attacks wi...

Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator The Georgia pastor will be just the 11th Black U.S. senator. His victory came amid an attempt to delegitimize election results — a pattern for more than 150 years. By Theodore R. Johnson Illustration by Dakarai Akil In late January 1870, the nation’s capital was riveted by a new arrival: the Mississippi legislator Hiram Rhodes Revels, who had traveled days by steamboat and train, fo...

His victory in the Georgia Senate runoff made history, and also echoed it.

Prosecutors said Eduard Florea threatened violence against the Rev. Raphael Warnock in online messages on the day of the Capitol riot.