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Attorney General Merrick Garland says he personally approved the search warrant at Donald Trump's Florida home.

The crux of the long-delayed bill is to use incentives to spur investors to accelerate the expansion of clean energy such as wind and solar power, speeding the transition away from the oil, coal and gas that largely cause climate change.

Paul LePage and Bruce Poliquin denounce the FBI search, taking a stance that experts say undermines the rule of law and health of democracy.

Prosecutors say the murder-for-hire scheme unfolded more than a year after the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force was killed in a targeted airstrike in Baghdad in January 2020.

The bill signing will mark a significant achievement for Biden, who has long spoken of the country's obligation to care for its veterans after they return home.

The civil investigation, led by state Attorney General Letitia James, involves allegations that Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, misstated the value of prized assets like golf courses and skyscrapers.

Voters in Vermont are poised to send a woman to Congress for the first time in the state's 231-year history.

Some Republicans dismissed concerns about extreme rhetoric.

Incumbent Republican Gov. Phil Scott also cruised to his party's primary victory, defeating two candidates as he seeks a fourth term.

Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King both have sought to cap the drug's price, which has shot up tenfold in the U.S. – but not other countries - in 20 years.

Officials became suspicious that when Trump gave back items to the National Archives about 7 months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records.

Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO in May, setting aside their longstanding stance of military nonalignment.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the decision 'an important victory for the rule of law.'

Industry CEOs who attended the signing ceremony at the White House announced roughly $50 billion in new investments.

"Remain in Mexico," formally known as the Migration Protection Protocols Policy, or MPP, forced back more than 60,000 asylum-seekers during the Trump administration.

Requests can be submitted now but actual ballots won't be mailed back until October.

Aome of Biden’s most striking, legacy-defining legislative victories came about by staying out of it.

Republicans who are running to be secretary of state in Wisconsin and Minnesota in primaries Tuesday are repeating Donald Trump’s false claims about the last presidential election and they've suggested they want more authority over how elections are run, especially in Democratic-leaning counties.

The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden's priorities.

The package has become a partisan battleground over inflation, gasoline prices and other issues that polls show are driving voters.

Some liberals in the city that's home to the largest contingent of Democrats in Wisconsin bemoan the decision.

Some Democratic rules committee members privately said that the party is leaning toward either New Hampshire or Nevada going first.

'A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters. He lost his election and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it,' former vice president Dick Cheney says of Donald Trump.

The fiscal 2023 bill requires the Navy to spend that $4 billion to build all or part of a destroyer, 2 amphibious ships, a cargo vessel and several troop-ferrying hovercrafts.

The subpoenas to Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin suggest an intensifying Justice Department investigation into the events surrounding the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

An environmental advocate for more than 70 years, Rensenbrink dedicated his life to changing politics to benefit the natural world.

U.S.-China relations are teetering on a precipice after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

The bill would reform the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which former President Donald Trump attempted to exploit in trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election.

Voters rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion rights in red-state Kansas and repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt defeated a field that also included U.S. Reps. Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long, and Mark McCloskey, who gained notoriety in 2020 when he and his wife pointed guns at racial injustice protesters outside their home.

The process derailed when Republicans made a late attempt to change another aspect of the bill last week and blocked it from advancing.

The U.S. House speaker Pelosi portrays her high-profile trip as part of a U.S. obligation to stand with democracies against autocratic countries, and with democratic Taiwan against China.

The gunmaker Smith & Wesson is facing new scrutiny from Congress, and its CEO refused to appear for a hearing on the firearms frequently used in mass shootings.

Voters rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have added language stating that it does not grant the right to abortion.

While there have been no official announcements, local media in Taiwan reported that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will arrive in Taipei on Tuesday night.

Administration officials have said little about the ruling, including whether any of the thousands subject to the policy since December will be allowed to enter and remain in the United States while their cases are being considered in immigration court.

Prosecutors said Guy Reffitt told fellow members of the Texas Three Percenters militia group that he planned to drag House Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of the Capitol building by her ankles.

Pelosi would become the first sitting speaker since Newt Gingrich to go to the island in 25 years.

Will his wins on climate, prescription costs and computer chip manufacturing be enough to overcome the high inflation that has helped sink his approval ratings?

In distancing himself from fellow party members, the West Virginia senator tried to decry the rise of partisanship.

Pelosi said in a statement she is leading a congressional delegation to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.

The House has passed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, to reauthorize, through fiscal 2026, a set of programs addressing human trafficking, and change some aspects of the programs.

A group of students from conservative states spent a week in Maine, and Maine students visited more conservative states, as part of the national program which seeks to have students find common ground with others of different backgrounds.

Approval of the Inflation Reduction Act would let President Biden and his party claim a triumph on top priorities as November’s elections approach.

One month into his presidency, Biden made clear his distaste for even naming the man he'd ousted from the Oval Office.

Republican leadership in the House recommended a vote against the bill, but some Republicans viewed passing the legislation as important for national security.

Fully 58% of the country supports a federal law establishing the right to an abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the standard the Supreme Court enshrined for nearly 50 years and overturned last month.

A 15% corporate minimum tax will help fund the new costs, with extra going to deficit reduction.

The bill had earlier sailed through the Senate with much Republican backing, but those votes vanished just weeks later.

A Wisconsin judge says a taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election found 'absolutely no evidence of election fraud,' but did reveal contempt for the state’s open records law by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and a former state Supreme Court justice he hired.