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(Bloomberg) -- Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s push to use the threat of a catastrophic debt default to extract spending cuts from Democrats risks being undermined by his fellow...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump warned his fellow Republicans on Friday not to "destroy" federal retirement and health benefits as they try to...

By Steven Grattan SAO PAULO (Reuters) -U.S. Representative George Santos competed as a drag queen in Brazilian beauty pageants 15 years ago, two acquaintances told Reuters on...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A New York state Senate panel on Wednesday rejected Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul's nominee to become the state's chief judge after some lawmakers...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A former University of Kansas professor avoided prison on Wednesday for making a false statement related to work he was doing in China in the latest...

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Election conspiracy theories drove a defeated Republican candidate in New Mexico with a criminal past to hire gunmen to attack homes of Democratic...

(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that his campaign was in talks with Meta Platforms about a possible return to Facebook...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Florida on Sunday and deliver remarks on the 50th anniversary of a ruling that recognized women's constitutional...

(Note language that may offend some readers in paragraph 17) By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prosecutor urged a jury on Wednesday to convict four members of the...

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday turned away a challenge by a group of firearms dealers in New York to numerous Democratic-backed measures adopted by...

By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held "very productive" talks last week on...

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -A failed Republican candidate in New Mexico was charged on Tuesday with contracting four gunmen to shoot at the homes of Democratic officials after he...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday he had no knowledge at the time of any classified documents taken to the Penn Biden Center, after...

(Reuters) - Republican former President Donald Trump on Jan. 28 will make the first public appearance of his 2024 presidential run in the early voting state of South Carolina...

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration is urging a judge to reject a request by abortion opponents for a court order withdrawing federal approval for...

By Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Tuesday it would respond in "good faith" to inquiries from lawmakers about the improper storage of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House asked House Republicans on Tuesday to reveal details of concessions made by Representative Kevin McCarthy to far-right fellow Republicans in...

(Bloomberg) -- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats need to sit down with Republicans as soon as possible to begin discussing controls on...

By David Shepardson (Reuters) - An unsuccessful Republican state House candidate in New Mexico was arrested on Monday and accused of orchestrating recent shootings at four local...

By Ted Hesson and Mica Rosenberg The United States announced on Thursday it will extend COVID-19 pandemic-era restrictions nL1N33Q1F2, known as Title 42, to expel migrants from...

By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Sunday demanded visitor logs for President Joe Biden's house in Wilmington,...

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This week's revelations that U.S. President Joe Biden stored classified documents in his Delaware home from his time as vice president has...

By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WILMINGTON, DE. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's counsel said on Saturday that five additional pages with classified markings were...

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - New Mexico towns would be prohibited from restricting access to abortion under legislation proposed on Friday by Democratic lawmakers in a state where...

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden marked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday by adopting a fighting stance against proposals floated by...

By Steve Holland and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -No visitor logs exist for President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, where classified documents from his vice...

By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The mayor of New York traveled to the Mexican border city of El Paso on Sunday and declared that "there is no room in New York" for busloads of...

By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Sunday demanded visitor logs for President Joe Biden's house in Wilmington,...

By Steve Holland ATLANTA, Ga. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden told Americans to look towards Martin Luther King Jr.'s life for lessons on repairing their divisions, extremism and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative George Santos, who lied about much of his resume and life story, will be removed from Congress if found to have broken campaign finance...

By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WILMINGTON, DE. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's counsel said on Saturday that five additional pages with classified markings were...

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This week's revelations that U.S. President Joe Biden stored classified documents in his Delaware home from his time as vice president has...

By Gram Slattery and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives launched an investigation on Friday into the Justice Department's handling...

By Andrew Goudsward and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is turning to a longtime Democratic problem-solver, lawyer Bob Bauer, to manage his response to...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of more than 120 U.S. lawmakers told the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) its computer outage on Wednesday that disrupted...