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When Republicans howled in protests during the State of the Union over President Biden’s suggestion that the GOP wanted to slash Medicare and Medicaid, it showcased a stunning turnaround for the Republican Party that built a brand on doing just that.

President Joe Biden spoke Thursday to celebrate the easing inflation rates after the Consumer Price Index showed a dip to 6.5%.

The House stalemate over choosing a new speaker has held firm through a long, excruciating third day and evening of voting with no conclusion. But glimmers of a deal began to emerge late Thursday. Party leader Kevin McCarthy is determined to win over enough fellow Republicans. He has offered the conservative holdouts rule changes to give them more power to...

As Republicans struggled for a second day to elect a House speaker, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida emerged as the choice of conservative holdouts who are refusing to support Kevin McCarthy’s bid.

House Republicans plowed through the second day of the new Congress, with no clear off-ramp from their political chaos over electing leader Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker. A Wednesday night session was initially planned, but they instead gave up amid a shouting, crowded vote to adjourn. After lengthy closed-door meetings with conservative holdouts, McCarthy said more voting would not...

After four contentious days of voting, negotiations and Republican infighting, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was voted in as House speaker early Saturday morning.

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has fallen far short in voting to become House speaker.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s left the Democrat Party and registered as an independent. Here’s what that means for the the balance of power in the Senate.

Republicans are getting ready to investigate President Joe Biden’s son Hunter next year when they take control of the U.S. House.

Republicans in battleground states and elsewhere — bruised by sweeping losses for a third straight election — are casting blame in a direction they were once reluctant to point: toward former President Donald Trump.

The Democrats retained control of the Senate after Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada.

President Joe Biden spoke Wednesday to celebrate the Democrats’ strong performance in the 2022 midterm elections, pledging to continue to reach across the aisle to pass bipartisan legislation.

Here’s a look at what the House and Senate could do next year if Democrats defy polls and do well in the midterm elections.

Control of Congress is up for grabs in the midterm elections. Here’s what Republicans might do with a win.

About half of all Americans believe both major political parties are in need of more moderate candidates, and they are just as likely to view the Democratic party as extreme as they are the Republican party, according to a new survey.

History tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy,” President Joe Biden said Thursday.

During a primetime speech on Thursday night, President Joe Biden laid into the political divide he says is being enflamed by former President Donald Trump. “There’s no question that the Republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”

During a visit to Wilkes University on Tuesday, President Joe Biden blasted members of the GOP who continue to support participants of the Jan. 6 riot. “Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress: don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th.”

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., closed the House special committee hearing on Thursday with a message to former President Donald Trump’s supporters. “It can be difficult to accept that President Trump abused your trust, that he deceived you … but that is a fact.”

During a House select committee hearing on the U.S. Capitol riot, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., blasted Republican members of Congress who “[ignored] the top law enforcement officer in the country” to spread lies about the 2020 election.