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Biden administration asks Congress for $98.4 billion in disaster aid after...
Debris and a mobile home are piled up along a tree line in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 29, 2024 in Old Fort, North Carolina. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The...
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Matt Gaetz bows out as Trump’s pick for attorney general
Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz leaves a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 3, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Former Florida...
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Former Florida AG Pam Bondi gets Trump’s latest nod for attorney general
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi address the Republican National Convention on Aug. 25, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald...
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Trump taps Project 2025 co-author to lead White House budget office
Russell Vought, then-acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, takes a question during a news briefing at the White House on March 11, 2019. President-elect Donald Trump said...
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Trump unveils his lineup for FDA, CDC and surgeon general
A nurse treats a patient with coronavirus in the intensive care unit at a hospital on May 1, 2020 in Leonardtown, Maryland. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump...
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New Trump budget chief wrote Project 2025’s agenda for empowering the presidency
Donald Trump, at the time president of the United States, listens to then-Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russ Vought deliver remarks prior to Trump signing executive orders on Oct. 9,...
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U.S. Senate Dem leader calls for traditional process for confirming Trump...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, speaks with reporters in the basement of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON —...
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Republicans will control Congress. But a slim House majority may trim their...
U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Thune was elected majority leader for the Congress that...
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Will Trump and Republicans quash the FBI headquarters move to Maryland?
The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen on Jan. 28, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The decade-long endeavor to move the Federal Bureau of Investigation out of...
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USDA launches national testing of milk from dairy farms to track bird flu...
Holstein milking cows at an Idaho dairy on July 20, 2012. (Photo by Kirsten Strough/USDA)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday it will require dairy farms to share samples of...
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McConnell falls while at U.S. Capitol but is reported to be ‘fine’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, speaks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol after returning from a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (Photo by...
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U.S. Capitol Police chief details 700 threats against members of Congress in...
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch hearing at the U.S. Capitol on May 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent...
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Trump at press conference backs polio vaccine but won’t commit to others,...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on Dec. 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President-elect...
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Huge spending bill unveiled in Congress provides more than $100 billion in...
Congressional leaders unveiled a catch-all, year-end package Tuesday night that would provide disaster aid along with stopgap funding to keep the government running through mid-March. Heavy rains from...
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First severe case of bird flu in a human in the U.S. reported in Louisiana
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday a Louisiana resident is believed to have been infected with a severe case of bird flu through sick or dead birds on their property that...
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Chances for government shutdown escalate after Trump and GOP reject stopgap...
U.S. House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., left, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., take part in a news conference at the U.S....
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States to lose out on billions if GOP spurns disaster aid in spending bill,...
Some kind of spending bill must become law before Friday at midnight, otherwise a partial government shutdown would begin. Shown is the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 26, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States...
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U.S. House torpedoes new spending plan as government shutdown nears Friday night
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., look on during a menorah lighting ceremony during a Hanukkah reception at the U.S. Capitol...
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Congress clears bill to avert government shutdown, extend farm bill
U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to members of the press at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 20, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Congress...
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New Orleans attack prompts tighter security in D.C. ahead of inauguration,...
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., is pictured amid fog on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Law enforcement agencies in the nation’s capital...
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