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When Speaker Mike Johnson opened the floor for questions at a closed-door luncheon fund-raiser in New Jersey last month, Jacquie Colgan asked how, in the face of vehement opposition within his own...

In a Georgia cemetery, surrounded by tombstones cracked and worn by decades of rain and sun, Pvt. Albert King’s gleams new and bright. The Army unveiled it Sunday in a full military...

A new law in Indiana requires professors in public universities to foster a culture of “intellectual diversity” or face disciplinary actions, including termination for even those with tenure, the latest in an...

Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday toured the still-bloody and bullet-pocked classroom building in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman killed 14 students and three staff members in 2018, using the grim backdrop...

Funding for more than half the government was on track to lapse early Saturday morning in what was expected to be a brief partial shutdown over the weekend, after Republican senators refused...

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, on Friday took the first step toward ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, filing a resolution calling for his removal after he pushed through a $1.2...

It’s Friday. Angelenos say they’re bewildered after the Los Angeles Dodgers fired the interpreter of Shohei Ohtani, a star player, over a gambling scandal. Plus, a deeper look at new laws to...

After being sworn in as attorney general in March 2021, Merrick B. Garland gathered his closest aides to discuss a topic too sensitive to broach in bigger groups: the possibility that evidence...

The executive director of Arkansas’s largest airport died on Thursday after being wounded in a shootout this week with federal agents who were executing a search warrant at his home, the authorities...

It was the biggest primary night since Super Tuesday, and there were few surprises in the results.Bernie Moreno won the Republican Senate primary in Ohio, wielding the powerful endorsement of former President...