Estimated 24.6 million TV viewers watched inauguration coverage, smallest audience since 2013
Mother on trial in West Virginia denies locking adopted teens in shed
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Trump order leaves Cuba prisoner deal in limbo
Ichiro Suzuki headlines 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class, receiving 99.7% of the vote
The facts about Trump's Stargate AI announcement
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Chicago Bears hire offensive guru Ben Johnson as head coach
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House Speaker Mike Johnson leaves uncertain his plan to advance aid for Israel and Ukraine
House Speaker Mike Johnson is leaving uncertain his plan for advancing wartime aid for Ukraine
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House to send Mayorkas impeachment articles to the Senate, forcing a trial
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he is sending impeachment charges against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday
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House leaders toil to advance Ukraine and Israel aid. But threats to oust speaker grow
House congressional leaders were toiling on a delicate, bipartisan push towards weekend votes to approve a $95 billion package of foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as several other national security policies
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Ukraine, Israel aid back on track as House pushes past hardliners toward weekend vote
The House is preparing to push a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage
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House on the brink of approving Ukraine and Israel aid after months of struggle
The House is preparing to vote on approval of $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies
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To pass Ukraine aid, 'Reagan Republican' leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump
Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress
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As border debate shifts right, Sen. Alex Padilla emerges as persistent counterforce for immigrants
Alex Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party’s approach to immigration
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Congress honors deceased Korean War hero with lying in honor ceremony
Congress has given one of its highest final tributes, a lying in honor ceremony at the Capitol, to Medal of Honor Recipient Ralph Puckett Jr. He led an outnumbered company in battle during the Korean War and was the last surviving veteran of that war to receive the Medal of Honor
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House Republicans launch investigation into federal funding for universities amid campus protests
House Republicans are investigating the federal funding for universities where students have protested the Israel-Hamas war
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South Dakota Gov. Noem admits error of describing meeting North Korea's Kim Jong Un in new book
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem claims in a new book to have met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during her time in Congress
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Speaker Johnson search for offramp as vote on his ouster simmers
Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have met for a second day at the Capitol as they try to figure out an off-ramp to her threat for a vote on the motion to remove him from office
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Biden administration will propose tougher asylum standards for some migrants at the border
The Biden administration plans to propose a new rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the asylum claims process for some migrants
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House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies
House Republicans are delivering a rebuke to President Joe Biden for putting a pause on a shipment of bombs to Israel that could be used in an assault on Rafah
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Border bill fails Senate test vote as Democrats seek to underscore Republican resistance
Senate Republicans are blocking for a second time a bill to clamp down the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border
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Key Republican calls for 'generational' increase in defense spending to counter US adversaries
The top-ranking Republican on a Senate committee that oversees the military is calling for a “generational investment” in America’s defense
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Biden prepares an order that would shut down asylum if a daily average of 2,500 migrants arrive
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign says the Biden administration's upcoming executive order to limit border crossings is ineffective and that President Joe Biden could completely close the border “with a swipe of the same pen.”
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Seeking to spotlight Republican resistance, Senate Democrats renew push for IVF rights
Senate Democrats are making a renewed push to show their support for ensuring nationwide access to in vitro fertilization
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Biden rolls out asylum restrictions, months in the making, to help 'gain control' of the border
The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration is responding to President Joe Biden's effort to restrict asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border by acknowledging challenges posed by increasing migrant crossings
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Will Biden's new border measures be enough to change voters' minds?
President Joe Biden is trying to address a major liability for his reelection campaign by taking executive action to significantly restrict asylum
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Speaker Johnson appoints two Trump allies to a committee that handles classified intelligence
House Speaker Mike Johnson is appointing two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee
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Senate Republicans block bill on women’s right to IVF as Democrats make push on reproductive care
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments
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White House preps 'dreamers' celebration while President Biden eyes new benefits for immigrants
President Joe Biden will host a White House event next week celebrating an Obama-era directive that offered deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants
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Biden will announce deportation protection and work permits for spouses of US citizens
President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy that would lift the threat of deportation for tens of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens
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Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a sweeping new plan from Biden
President Joe Biden has ordered an expansive election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. It comes after the Democratic president's own aggressive immigration crackdown at the southern border earlier this month
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Endangered House candidates grapple with how closely to run with Biden and Trump
As candidates for the U.S. House vie for election in the few dozen districts that are likely to determine political control of the chamber, they are leaning into local issues
