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Congressional lawmakers begin returning to Washington on Monday after a tense week-long recess in which Republicans got an earful about ObamaCare and other issues and ahead of President Trump’s first speech to a joint session of Congress.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says President Trump will discuss his tax-reform plan in this week’s speech before Congress and that the president’s upcoming budget won’t include cuts to such entitlement programs as Social Security and Medicare.

Republicans are increasingly divided over the issue of whether the Donald Trump campaign made illegal contact with Russia and if a special prosecutor should be appointed over Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate such allegations.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a high-profile Democrat and Clinton family supporter, is an outspoken Donald Trump critic but said Sunday that he “no intentions” of challenging the GOP president for the White House.

In the aftermath of the racially motivated Charleston church slayings in 2015, the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina Statehouse during an elaborate nationally televised ceremony.

The Pentagon wants to expand the military's ability to battle Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia, potentially putting U.S. forces closer to the fight against a stubborn extremist group that has plotted attacks against America, senior U.S. officials said.

President Trump said Saturday that he will not attend the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, escalating his battle with the news media and raising questions about the future of the annual event.

President Trump said Saturday that he will not attend the White House Correspondence Dinner, escalating his battle with the news media and raising questions about the future of the annual event.

Conservatives appear fully behind new Republican President Trump, based on a straw poll Saturday at the annual CPAC summit in which attendees gave him an 86 percent approval rating and overwhelmingly agreed that he was “realigning” the movement.

Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez on Saturday was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, defeating top-rival Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, in their respective bids to chart the direction of the national party.

House Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t speak French. He studied German at Miami University in Ohio. The Wisconsin Republican describes himself as a “bad” hockey player, too, sustaining a nasty scar that required stitches after getting clipped while involved in a pickup game in college.

President Trump boasted about how he has boosted the economy and cut the national debt - all in his first month in office.

Democratic candidate's run for the Pennsylvania Legislature is down the drain -- partly because he used too little water at the house he claimed as his residence.

Former President Obama and other top Democrats are focusing efforts on state-level races and ending the reconfiguring of voting districts through the politically-laden process known as gerrymandering -- a combined effort to end “Trump-ism” and help their party regain control of Congress and legislatures across the country.

President Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser on Thursday reportedly held his first “all hands” staff meeting and called the label “radical Islamic terrorism” not helpful because terrorists are “un-Islamic.”

President Trump’s administration Friday made its first tangible step towards developing and implementing one of the president’s chief campaign promises to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Vice President Mike Pence is assuring the Republican Jewish Coalition that he and President Donald Trump will work tirelessly on foreign and domestic issues important to the group, such as enacting business-friendly policies at home and supporting Israel abroad.

Officials in President Trump’s administration Friday downplayed a report by the Homeland Security Department that contradicts the White House’s position that immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries pose an increased terror risk and should be blocked.

A military judge won't throw out charges against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl despite scathing comments that President Donald Trump made on the campaign trail.

With just a few sentences Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer sent shockwaves through the legal recreational marijuana industry when asked about the Trump administration's attitude toward the drug.