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Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday called out her onetime House Republican leadership colleague Kevin McCarthy for “attempting to block” the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The select committee voted unanimously on Tuesday evening to hold Steve Bannon, who was...

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Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he did nothing improper but still fell short in his handling of the fatal police shooting of a Black teenage seven years ago in the city.

An associate of Rudy Giuliani has told a federal judge that he will not testify at his own trial. He's facing charges alleging he used a Russian financier's money to make donations to U.S. political candidates.

The Senate failed to move forward on Democrats' elections reform bill Wednesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for a major party priority.

The White House is under mounting pressure to get results on voting rights legislation, but sources tell CNN the Biden administration still isn’t ready to try to jam it through the Senate by force – even though the Senate’s latest voting bill is expected to falter yet again on Wednesday.

President Biden and former President Trump are tied in a potential head-to-head match-up in 2024, according to a new Grinnell College National Poll released Wednesday. Biden and Trump eac…

Republicans voted to prevent a major voting bill from advancing in the Senate for the second time this year.

ExxonMobil’s board of directors is reportedly debating whether to abandon some major oil and gas projects as the company reviews its five-year spending plan.Sources familiar with th…

Former President Trump on Wednesday called Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) a “smug fool” after she pressed the House to back a criminal contempt vote against former White House aide Stephen Bannon.&n…

The Senate Majority PAC’s presentation showed a serious erosion among so-called persuadable voters, especially on the economy.

A practice known as "prison gerrymandering" is easy to see in Wisconsin's last political maps. And likely to play a role in the new ones.

A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows 7 out of 10 Americans believe social media companies like Facebook and Twitter do more harm than good.Twenty percent of responde…

The president traveled to Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday for the first time since he took office, using his birthplace to make the case for his agenda at a critical stage.

Support from eBay-founder-turned-tech-critic Pierre Omidyar is helping Frances Haugen take on one of the world's most powerful companies.

The Sarasota County coroner has been called to a Florida park after articles of clothing and a backpack belonging to fugitive Brian Laundrie were found. The medical examiner's office confirmed it had been called by the North Port Police Department to the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park...

Rahm Emanuel told senators Wednesday that “there’s not a day or a week that has gone by” that he hasn’t thought about the police shooting of Laquan McDonald in 2014 when he was Chicago m…

The closely watched gubernatorial race in Virginia between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin is all tied up, according to a new poll.

A broad majority of Americans — more than 6 in 10 — believes the Supreme Court bases its decisions more on the justices’ political views than on the Constitution and law, a national survey released…