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1799 episodes transcribedPresident Biden is in Wisconsin Wednesday, touting the same broadly popular priorities he emphasized during Tuesday's State of the Union address. The...
President Biden kept a tight focus on broadly popular policies and bipartisan achievements in a State of the Union address that is likely to serve as...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled his trip to China after the U.S. spotted a Chinese surveillance balloon near a military base in Montana. T...
Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was at the White House on Wednesday for talks as President Biden continues to insist that the U.S. payi...
The House Oversight and Judiciary committees, helmed by Repulican representatives James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio, will be the venues f...
The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is going back on her pledge not to run against her former boss, Donald Trump. And aft...
Recent changes to Florida's election laws institute new requirements that, as designed, could cause huge numbers of ballots to be rejected in the stat...
The site's parent company announced that Donald Trump would be able to return to the platform with new guardrails on his account. But will Facebook be...
After extracting a slew of concessions from Kevin McCarthy during the Speaker vote saga, conservative House Republicans are now flexing their muscles...
Vice President Harris is in California after a number of mass shootings in the state. The US Secret Service is out with a report documenting trends in...
The move, announced by President Biden in a speech from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, is the latest in a continued escalation of military equ...
Democrats head into the 2024 elections needing to defend far more seats in the Senate than their Republican counterparts. With potentially vulnerable...
The White House said FBI agents searched President Biden's Delaware home on Friday, finding more items with classified markings. The search took place...
Documents were at the heart of Washington news this week. A Supreme Court investigation into who leaked a draft opinion of the decision overturning Ro...
The Payroll Protection Program was enacted during the pandemic to provide financial assistance to businesses that were closed, or operating at a reduc...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress the United States would reach the statutory debt limit — commonly known as the debt ceiling — on Jan....
In Washington, D.C., members of the Proud Boys are on trial related to their alleged actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Cap...
The world faces key deadlines for climate action in coming decades. But most of us are more focused on the short term — today, tomorrow, maybe next ye...
With a narrow majority in the House, Republicans will need to find ways to work with Democrats — who still control the Senate and the White House. Wha...
After President Biden announced a second set of classified documents had been improperly stored at his Wilmington, Del., residence, Attorney General M...
