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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks via video feed to a crowd of local officials at the National Association of Counties legislative conference in Washington on Monday.

County election officials call for more funding, better security ahead of 2024 elections

By Justin Papp
Posted February 12, 2024 at 7:12pm
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley compete in the fifth Republican presidential primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 10.

Haley faces tough road back into GOP after taking on Trump, lawmakers say

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 12, 2024 at 3:20pm
President Joe Biden speaks about a special counsel report in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Thursday.

Biden’s impromptu press conference provided clues about expected rematch with Trump

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 9, 2024 at 11:26am
President Joe Biden speaks to House Democrats on Thursday at the House Democrats 2024 Issues Conference in Leesburg, Va.

Special counsel backs no charges in Biden classified records probe

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 8, 2024 at 5:30pm, Updated at 9:10pm
DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., speaks with CQ Roll Call at the House Democrats 2024 Issues Conference in Leesburg, Va., on Thursday.

Democrats: Abortion rights still motivating voters two years after Dobbs

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted February 8, 2024 at 2:43pm
“Politics should never have a place in science," Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said of the World Health Organization.

GOP lawmakers argue pandemic treaty threatens US sovereignty

By Ariel Cohen
Posted February 5, 2024 at 6:40pm
A sanitation worker is seen on Maryland Avenue, NE, near the Capitol on Aug. 2, 2021.

Lawmakers see blue-collar voters as key in Biden-Trump rematch

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 5, 2024 at 3:10pm
Demonstrators attend the March on Washington for Gaza at Freedom Plaza to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war on Jan. 13.

New Israel supplemental readied in House, without offsets

By Aidan Quigley and Peter Cohn
Posted February 3, 2024 at 2:16pm
Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday, January 11, 2024.

White House stumps for rail safety measure ahead of Biden visit to East Palestine

By Valerie Yurk
Posted January 31, 2024 at 5:01pm
An electron photomicrograph of two spiral-shaped Treponema pallidum bacteria. T. pallidum Is the causative agent of syphilis.

HHS launches syphilis strategy amid rising cases

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted January 30, 2024 at 2:20pm
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks during a news conference in the Capitol on border security legislation on Wednesday. Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also appear.

DHS funding, tied up in border talks, stalls appropriations deal

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 25, 2024 at 10:23am
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Grappone Conference Center on Jan. 19 in Concord, N.H.

GOP pivots on abortion stance as 2024 nears

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted January 25, 2024 at 7:00am
Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. presides during an Oct. 18 ballot as the House sought to choose a new speaker.

Lobbying spending by top interest groups dipped amid 2023 gridlock

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 24, 2024 at 3:10pm
President Joe Biden speaks at a ”Reproductive Freedom Campaign Rally" at George Mason University on Tuesday in Manassas, Va. During the first joint rally held by the president and vice president, Biden and Kamala Harris spoke on what they perceive as a threat to reproductive rights.

Biden kicks off reelection push with singular goal: Restore Roe

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 23, 2024 at 7:04pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to his office from the Senate floor during votes on the stopgap funding bill on Thursday.

Palestinian aid emerges as sticking point in supplemental talks

By David Lerman
Posted January 23, 2024 at 12:21pm, Updated at 2:27pm
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump looks on as Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a campaign rally Friday in Concord, N.H.

GOP lawmakers want Trump to focus on economy, immigration

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 23, 2024 at 5:00am
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra sent a letter to health payers that receive federal funding to clarify their obligations to cover contraception under the 2010 health care law. The letter was also sent to private insurers as well as state Medicaid programs and Medicare plans.

White House unveils policy push for Roe anniversary

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 22, 2024 at 4:19pm
Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr., D-Va., attends the Arlington Democrats Chili Cook-Off at the Lyon Park Community Center in Arlington, Va., on Labor Day, Sept. 4, 2023.

Strong bipartisan showing in first test of tax deal’s support

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 19, 2024 at 4:06pm
After suspending his own campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is reportedly preparing to endorse former President Donald Trump.

Three things Tim Scott’s endorsement gives Donald Trump

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 19, 2024 at 3:09pm
From left, Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, Mike Rogers, R-Ala., Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, address the media after a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

Biden meeting doesn’t change contours of debate over Ukraine, border

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted January 17, 2024 at 6:46pm
Former President Donald Trump, with sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., at a watch party during the 2024 Iowa caucuses Monday in Des Moines. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

What was on Iowa voters’ minds as Trump rolled to victory?

By David Winston
Posted January 17, 2024 at 6:00am
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said she would have preferred that the Biden administration had designated the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

US to relist Houthis as terrorist group with special designation

By Rachel Oswald
Posted January 17, 2024 at 12:49pm, Updated at 12:00am
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., enters the Senate subway after speaking with reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 10.

Tax panel leaders clinch deal on child credit, business breaks

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 16, 2024 at 10:13am, Updated at 7:11pm
A protester interrupts President Joe Biden during a campaign event at Emanuel AME Church on Jan. 8 in Charleston, S.C.

‘We all have concerns’: Hill Democrats see flawed Biden campaign

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 16, 2024 at 11:55am
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., arrives for the last votes of the week on Friday.

March stopgap funding bill unveiled ahead of Friday deadline

By David Lerman
Posted January 14, 2024 at 8:36pm, Updated at 9:20pm
Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a town hall on Dec. 19 in Bedford, N.H.

In exit speech, Christie rips Hill GOP leaders for Trump support

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 11, 2024 at 10:45am
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, shown at a budget hearing in May 2023, didn't notify the White House or Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks about his surgery in December, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Austin treated for prostate cancer, Pentagon reveals

By Mark Satter
Posted January 9, 2024 at 6:40pm
Minority Whip John Thune is seen after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Short-term stopgap bill appears likely as funding talks drag

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 9, 2024 at 5:44pm
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Friday in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Trump’s return to anti-immigration message takes hold among Republicans

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 9, 2024 at 6:00am
From left, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attend a menorah lighting to celebrate Hanukkah in the Capitol on Dec. 12, 2023.

Congressional leaders announce topline deal on appropriations

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 7, 2024 at 2:15pm, Updated at 4:29pm