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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will visit the Rome and Vatican City next month in what will likely be his last presidential mission overseas, as he tries to solidify his legacy on the world stage.

But Biden’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle joined together to reject Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest stopgap funding package Thursday night, with one day to spare before a partial government shutdown is ...Read more

Elon Musk isn’t the president, but his power over Congress was made very clear this week when he single-handedly torpedoed a bipartisan bill which would have kept the government open through the new year.

At least, that...Read more

A revamped stopgap spending plan put forward by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson failed in the House late Thursday, one day after President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk torpedoed a deal needed to avert a ...Read more

When the initials “DJT” flash on Felix Lasarte’s cellphone, there’s business to discuss with a once and future president.

The veteran Miami lobbyist and land-use lawyer took on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On a chaotic day at the Capitol, Maryland Democrats scrambled to ensure Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement funding remained in a catch-all spending bill that — in a two-day period — was endorsed and ...Read more

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has an unconventional idea: electing Elon Musk as speaker of the House of Representatives.

“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul, a Republican, wrote in a Dec. 19 ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump endorsed a revamped stopgap spending plan put forward by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson late Thursday, just one day after Trump and Elon Musk torpedoed a deal needed to avert a ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump urged House Speaker Mike Johnson to “act decisively” and reject compromise with Democrats on Thursday after Trump and Elon Musk torpedoed a spending deal to avert a government shutdown as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan spending bill that includes Hurricane Helene relief for Georgians was in tatters Thursday after President-elect Donald Trump warned Republicans it would be a “betrayal” to back the package ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Since South Carolina passed its fetal heartbeat abortion ban in 2021, the issue has been in the public spotlight either through court challenges or legislative attempts to strengthen its provisions. That...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office should be disqualified from the 2020 election interference case, a bombshell decision that upends ...Read more

DENVER — Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, one of the state’s most prominent election deniers, transferred jails this week due to safety concerns, sheriff’s officials said Wednesday.

Peters recently told ...Read more

Shortly after former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration to serve as U.S. attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate Pam Bondi for the position. A former Florida attorney ...Read more

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified Thursday from the Georgia election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump over an affair with her top lieutenant.

In the latest big legal ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to hold talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, while striking a defiant tone on his war on Ukraine by saying he should have invaded sooner.

“I don’t know when we’ll ...Read more

There were no antebellum hoop skirts at the site of Brazil’s annual “Festa Confederada,” or Confederate Festival, in 2024. Flag poles that once flew the Brazilian flag alongside the red, white and blue rebel ...Read more