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Republicans in U.S. Senate form group to study restructuring the CDC
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Schumer support for GOP spending bill appears to possibly stave off...
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Trump signs stopgap spending bill into law, following U.S. Senate passage
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts pushes back against Trump call to impeach...
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Medicaid cuts rippling through rural America could bring hospital closures,...
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Social Security nominee vows service will improve despite mass firings,...
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EMILYs List sets ambitious course to flip U.S. House in 2026
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Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health nominees confirmed
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‘Signalgate’ group chat revealed precise attack timeline, surveillance of target
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., points to text messages by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an annual worldwide threats assessment hearing at the Longworth House Office Building on March...
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Trump Jan. 6 pardons demoralized cops across the nation, U.S. Capitol Police...
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Poll: Belief in false measles claims correlated with lower vaccination rates
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Will Trump and Republicans quash the FBI headquarters move to Maryland?
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Trump’s election as president certified by Congress, four years after Capitol...
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White House announces tariffs on products from Canada, Mexico, China
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U.S. House Republicans overcome own members’ doubts to push through sweeping...
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025, in...
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GOP tax cut plans may depend on savings from Medicaid. What is it and who...
About 60 percent of the nation’s 73 million children in 2022 received their health insurance through Medicaid or CHIP, which extends Medicaid benefits to children of low-income families who make too...
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Republicans control Congress, but need Democrats to help avert a shutdown...
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025 in...
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Tax policy, Medicaid funding cuts could scuttle Republicans’‘big, beautiful...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson hold a press conference on the Republican budget resolution at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025. The Republican leaders each...
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