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Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.

A handful of House Republicans bucked leadership to oppose the administrations tariff policy, but GOP senators still fear speaking out on Epstein connections.

Some election experts warn it could portend attempts to muddle future election results.

Trump had initially excluded Democrats from the traditionally bipartisan meeting. However, not all Democrats were invited to a separate dinner.

The attorney general lobbed insults when lawmakers questioned her decisions and portrayed the Justice Department as unfairly maligned by Democrats and Trump critics.

The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks that stymied President Donald Trumps desire for a show of force in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ruben Gallego and Gretchen Whitmer hope to reassure anxious European allies at the Munich Security Conference.

J.P. Cooney served as a top deputy to special counsel Jack Smith in two criminal prosecutions of Trump.

The vice presidents historic trip illustrates Trumps transactional diplomacy and willingness to use economic muscle to elbow out rivals such as Russia and Iran.

The vote opens the door to consideration of measures that would end the national emergency Trump declared to justify sweeping tariffs on other countries imports.

Federal prosecutors launched an investigation into the lawmakers after they released a short video advising current military members to reject illegal orders.

The FBI told a federal judge that it is investigating whether any deficiencies in Georgia officials handling of the 2020 presidential election were intentional.

At least some in the GOP want ICE to tone it down.

Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly sent proposed congressional maps that favor their party to Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) Tuesday as part of a budget package.

The president left some governors, including Marylands Wes Moore, off the guest list for an event that has traditionally been bipartisan.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Congress that he recalls meeting with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein three times over the course of 14 years.

As the Gordie Howe bridge nears completion, Trump, in his latest salvo against Canada, suggested he would not allow it to open, saying Canada had treated the U.S. very unfairly.

Explaining the SAVE Act, which Republicans in Congress are voting on this week.

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., said a judge should dismiss Stephen K. Bannon indictment over defying a Jan. 6 subpoena in the interests of justice.

A federal judge weighing whether the project may proceed has focused on whether the administration can use private donations to bypass congressional approval.

A lawyer for about Jeffrey Epsteins associate Ghislaine Maxwell said she is prepared to testify before lawmakers if first granted clemency.

Michael Whatley was selected for Post Next 50.

The president is said to be eager to increase his involvement but has yet to approve a spending plan for his $300 million-plus war chest.

More Perfect Union, one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels, doesnt look like most other online political content.

Thomas Massie has challenged Trump on issues including the Epstein files and is trying to survive reelection in deep-red Kentucky.

Jeffrey Epsteins lawyers filed records requests to the National Security Agency and the CIA, according to documents released by the Justice Department.

The White House did not say why Democratic governors were not invited to the meeting with Trump. In addition, at least two Democrats were uninvited to a dinner, their offices said.

Amid a burst of high-profile targeted violence, authorities have identified a new source of terror.

Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-New York) faces the challenge of leading the questioning of top immigration officials at the peril of angering the White House.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is ending graduate-level programs for military personnel at the school, which he claimed had become a breeding ground for radical ideologies.

Six years after leading Trumps first impeachment trial, Schiff reflects on the balance Democrats must strike between opposing Trump and lawmaking.

No, I didnt make a mistake, the president said.

Documents indicate that Navy Secretary John Phelan was a passenger on Jeffrey Epsteins Boeing 727 for two transatlantic flights in 2006.

Officials announce the arrest of a man they called a key participant in the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a U.S. ambassador and three others.

Tim Scott, the sole Black Republican in the Senate, called it the most racist thing Ive seen out of this White House.

Scores of claims are expected to arise out of the Trump administrations crackdown on illegal immigration. Experts say suing the government will be tough.

Amid an immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area, judges have lost patience with the Trump administration, saying officials are flouting their orders.

Republicans have criticized Democrats proposals as a ridiculous Christmas list but say theyre willing to negotiate.

Why doctors who led the pandemic response in their states are running for office.

A U.S. official called the deal a by-product of ongoing efforts to end the Ukraine war. It came as a key nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow expired.