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WASHINGTON — With both the House and Senate out for the Yom Kippur holiday, movement in the House on its glacial effort to avoid a government shutdown won’t resume until Tuesday. But this past tropical storm-soaked weekend saw a flurry... Read More

WASHINGTON — You could tell Capitol Hill was bristling Thursday morning, even before you got within 100 yards of the Capitol building itself. Walking up First Street SE, past Bullfeathers, the popular Capitol Hill eatery, an indistinct conversation between passersby... Read More

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's push to bend state Republican parties to his will — and gain an advantage in his effort to return to the White House — is coming to a head in Nevada. The state GOP, which is... Read More

WASHINGTON — The House Problem Solvers Caucus late Wednesday night endorsed a bipartisan plan to prevent a government shutdown, ratcheting up the pressure on hardcore Republicans to end the intraparty squabble that prevented a stopgap spending measure from reaching the... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to hold their first hearing next week in their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his family’s business dealings. The hearing — scheduled for Sept. 28 — is expected to focus on “constitutional and legal... Read More

WASHINGTON — Presidential son Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday for what he calls an invasion of his privacy even as he faces unrelated felony gun charges. Biden’s lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District... Read More

WASHINGTON — Presidential hopeful and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will try to jump-start her campaign for the Republican nomination on Friday with an economic speech in which she will call for an end to the federal gas tax.... Read More

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, now campaign manager to Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., urged President Biden on Monday to provide Secret Service protection to Kennedy after a man with a loaded gun showed up at... Read More

WASHINGTON — Tensions are rising on Capitol Hill as Republicans fail to reach agreement on spending plans. So heated has the rhetoric become that during a closed-door conference meeting Thursday morning, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., reportedly addressed recent threats... Read More

WASHINGTON — Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection to another term in the Senate in 2024, saying it's time “for a new generation of leaders” to “shape the world they will be living... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a man who stays in motion — enthusiastically greeting tourists at the Capitol, dashing overseas last week to the G7 summit of industrial world leaders, raising funds back home to elect fellow Republicans to... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she will run for reelection to another term in Congress as Democrats work to win back the majority in 2024. Pelosi made the announcement before labor allies in the San Francisco... Read More

ATLANTA (AP) — A report released on Friday revealed that a special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results recommended indictments against a much larger group than Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis ultimately charged, including one current... Read More

TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday named Secretary of State Tahesha Way the next lieutenant governor of the state of New Jersey, five weeks after Sheila Oliver, his previous lieutenant governor, unexpectedly died in office. Way, 51, has... Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a pair of legal challenges to the state's congressional map, meaning the map — already declared unconstitutional — will be used for the 2024 election. The two lawsuits in question... Read More

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A new congressional district map drawn by state lawmakers in Alabama failed to address concerns that it dilutes the electoral power of Black voters in the state, a federal judicial panel has ruled. As a result of... Read More

WASHINGTON — With Congress preparing to return to Washington, the National Governors Association has weighed in with a lengthy list of priorities it believes should be considered when deliberations over the next farm bill begin next week. In a letter... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas — Qualifying Texas music venues and festival promoters can apply as of today for a full or partial rebate of certain taxes in a bid by the Texas governor’s office to help support the live music industry in... Read More

As former President Donald Trump dominates the Republican presidential primary, some liberal groups and legal experts contend that a rarely used clause of the Constitution prevents him from being president after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The 14th... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Thursday that Congress should pass a short-term funding measure to ensure the government keeps operating after the current budget year ends Sept. 30. An official with the Office of Management and Budget said lawmakers would... Read More

ATLANTA (AP) — Some Republicans in Washington and Georgia began attacking Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis immediately after she announced the Aug. 14 indictment of former President Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. But others, including Gov. Brian Kemp, have... Read More

WASHINGTON — Six decades on, the decennial remembrance of the 1963 March on Washington may not draw hundreds of thousands of participants, but for the several thousand who did make their way to the National Mall on Saturday, the day... Read More

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed a sweeping Republican-backed elections bill Thursday, dismissing the legislation as “an all-out assault on the right to vote” and setting up a showdown with the Legislature. SB 747 would... Read More

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — From the outset it was clear, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., was in her element. The featured guest on a panel hosted by the nonprofit Concerned Veterans for America aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown, the decommissioned aircraft carrier... Read More

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Breakout GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy unveiled his foreign policy vision from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Orange County, California, Thursday night. “These are naked views that you are not supposed to share... Read More

RICHMOND, Va. — A ruling by a federal appeals court Monday means Maryland schools can develop support plans for transgender or gender-nonconforming students without the consent of their parents. The 4th Circuit said the children — not the parents —... Read More

ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers and other aides... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is assailing the federal judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against him, days after she warned him not to make inflammatory statements about the case. The former president made posts Monday on his social media network calling U.S. District... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday he has appointed a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe, deepening the investigation of the president's son ahead of the 2024 election. Garland said he was naming David Weiss, the U.S. attorney... Read More

WASHINGTON — A Texas-based entity called SHBT LLC violated federal campaign finance laws by hiding the true source of a $1 million contribution to Tell It Like It Is, a super PAC supporting the 2024 presidential bid of former New... Read More