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Afghan girls robotics team arrives in US just in time

Twice rejected for U.S. visas, an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan arrived in Washington early Saturday after an ...

House using appropriations bill to work on guns, churches

Out of the spotlight, a House panel has taken steps to help victims of gun violence, allow robust politicking from the ...

Mick Mulvaney

White House says budget deficit to be $99B higher this year

The White House says worsening tax revenues will cause the budget deficit to jump to $702 billion this year. That's a $99 ...

Mick Mulvaney

White House: Budget deficit to spike to $702B

The White House said Friday that worsening tax revenues will cause the budget deficit to jump to $702 billion this year.

Mitch McConnell

Trump, administration press Republicans to back health bill

President Donald Trump and other administration officials lobbied Republicans Friday from both sides of the Atlantic to keep ...

Guns, churches and immigrants: What's in that spending bill?

Out of the spotlight, a House panel has taken steps to help victims of gun violence, allow robust politicking from the ...

Defense bill calls climate change a national security threat

The Republican-led House decisively approved a defense policy bill on Friday that declares climate change a national security ...

Trump names lawyer to head beleaguered energy agency

President Donald Trump has nominated energy lawyer Kevin McIntyre to chair the vacancy-plagued commission that oversees the ...

Donald Trump

Trump maintains 'nothing happened' when son met Russian

President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer, characterizing it as standard campaign ...

2 charged in case of nude images of congressional delegate

Two former staffers who worked for a congressional delegate from the Virgin Islands have been charged in connection with the ...

Susan Collins

New Senate GOP health care bill teeters on the brink

Republican leaders unveiled a new health care bill Thursday in their increasingly desperate effort to deliver on seven years ...

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New GOP Health Care Bill Teeters on the Brink

Republican leaders unveiled a new health care bill in their effort to deliver on promises to repeal and replace "Obamacare.

Court: MLB committee can determine Nationals' rights fees

A committee of Major League Baseball owners and executives can determine how much money the Washington Nationals should ...

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McGurk: 'We Have Some Ways to Go' in IS Fight

US Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS (IS), Brett McGurk, detailed the progress of the ...

St. Louis businesses pressured to keep $10 minimum wage

The $10 per hour minimum wage law in St. Louis will be short-lived, but an effort launching Friday will encourage and ...

CBO: Trump's budget doesn't balance federal ledger

A new government analysis of President Donald Trump's budget plan says it wouldn't come close to balancing the federal ledger ...

Mitch McConnell, John Barrasso

Washington braces for a long, hot summer slog of politics

The nation's capital is bracing for a long, hot summer, and that's not even counting the weather. The White House is immersed ...

The Latest: FBI pick says Russia probe not a "witch hunt"

The Latest on the Senate hearing on Christopher Wray's nomination as FBI director (all times local): 10:10 p.m.

Mark Meadows

Trump says he'll be 'angry' if Senate health care bill flops

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will be "very angry" if the Senate fails to pass a revamped Republican health care ...

FBI nominee rejects Trump claim: Russia probe no witch hunt

Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI broke with the president in key areas Wednesday, rejecting the idea that an investigation ...