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A prominent figure in Washington as well as on Wall Street, he rallied donors in the financial industry behind Bill Clintons first presidential campaign.
Gov. Katie Hobbs's press secretary has resigned after posting a controversial tweet that appeared to reference the Nashville shooting.
The vote comes after President Biden announced the national emergency would end in May.
Recent moves created the appearance that House Republicans were running political interference for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, an unusual move in an open primary.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in February after he was evaluated by the attending physician of Congress.
Quinnipiac University polling shows how Trump divides in a way Speaker McCarthy doesn't.
Alejandro Mayorkas told a Senate panel that the Biden administration was working with Mexico to bring the fight to the cartels.
An email obtained by Dominion Voting Systems shows how fully Bartiromo seized on nonsensical fraud claims.
The Senate voted 66-30 with bipartisan support to repeal a decades-old military force authorization to go to war in Iraq.
The grand jury pause comes days after former president Donald Trump publicly predicted he would soon be arrested, stoking widespread public interest.
By a nearly 2-to-1 margin, Americans view the case as being more about politics than the law. And when it comes to Trump, thats unusual.
If passed by the House and signed into law, the bill would repeal the 1991 Gulf War authorization and 2002 authorization for the Iraq War.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) thinks it's premature to discuss new laws almost 29 hours after a mass shooting. The average gap between mass shootings this year is under 17 hours.
As Republicans push for spending cuts in the debt-ceiling debate, a poll shows 60 percent say the government spends too much. But people also don't want cuts in virtually any major, specific area.
A Republican-led Idaho House bill would limit minors ability to travel for an abortion without parental consent, even in states where the procedure is legal.
The former president views leadership like a private business, not as a function of public trust.
The president is expected to call for up to $690 million in new funding for his initiative to support democracy and fight corruption worldwide.
I would say weve gone about as far as we can go, said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), a key negotiator of a bipartisan gun control package that passed last year.
Interviews show the desire for a backup option in 2024 has intensified amid questions about the Florida governor.
The president renewed his call for Congress to pass an assault weapons ban and said theres a moral price to pay for inaction.
A spotlight on mission creep as lawmakers get ready to sunset AUMF, which has authorized the use of force for 20 years.
Vice President Harris visits Ghanas Cape Coast Castle, a former clearinghouse for enslaved people, and addresses young people at Black Star Gate.
It's partly a joke. It's partly tapping into something deeper.
Former vice president Mike Pence can remain silent on topics that deal specifically with his role in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, people familiar with the matter said.
Follow the president's progress filling nearly 800 positions, among the 1,200 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
Lord, deliver our senators from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous, Senate chaplain Barry C. Black said Tuesday in an unusually pointed call for action.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday demanded a meeting with President Biden to discuss the nations debt limit a move that the White House and Democrats suggested was premature.
There are a literally uncountable number of guns in the U.S., the fundamental, unaddressable problem with gun violence.
The channel played host to the former president on Monday and then went into clean-up mode.
Despite the Fox hosts prompts, Trump declined to give him the answers he sought. And they pertain to some central questions in a key legal fight.
The president is kicking off a three-week Investing in America tour with a visit to a semiconductor manufacturer in Durham, N.C.
Vice President Harris began a week-long tour of Africa on Monday by announcing the United States plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the continent.
Nyquil chicken and the blackout challenge were phenomena before TikTok existed.
Never Back Down has set itself up to receive donations of unlimited value to support the Florida governors presidential ambitions.
Clayton Anderson, 25, is looking to use her position to highlight the partys need to appeal to voters like her young and from rural parts of North Carolina.
The former New Jersey governor also portrayed himself as uniquely well-positioned to take on the 45th president.
Biden has long been a big backer of the Jewish state, but Israel and American politics are shifting sharply.
A lower court said the law barring anyone from encouraging undocumented residents to stay was overly broad and could keep families, charities from helping.
Vice President Harris announced nearly $139 million in funding to Ghana, her first stop on a weeklong tour of Africa.
Trump repeatedly emphasized his false insistence that the 2020 election was stolen from him and suggested his political opponents were now bent on rigging the next election against him through the prospect of criminal charges.
A new poll shows a new low in Americans' patriotic feelings. Here's what's behind it.
Polling on a spate of policies the Florida governor has enacted shows a limited appeal and potential damage in support.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), who represents the Nashville district where the Covenant School is located, said Monday that he was utterly heartbroken by the mass shooting that left six dead, including three children. A 2021 Christmas photo of Ogles and his family drew attention from Democrats and gun control advocates.
In part, we're better at preventing car-crash deaths. In part, our gun culture is exceptional.
It's substantial, but it's clearly not as big as it once was. And in fact, it's not a majority of Republicans.
New polls show that Trump's party objects to criminal charges, both specifically and in general.
More than a dozen states have laws that criminalize abortion when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Heres a look at abortion laws by state.
At his dubiously timed rally in Waco, Tex., Trump paired calls for resistance with tacit assurances that those who did would be valorized.
In Washington, President Biden is hosting a summit on women-owned businesses. Vice President Harris is on a three-nation tour of Africa.
Khanna, a leading progressive Democrat, said he will co-chair Lees campaign seeking the seat held by retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein, rather than run himself.