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The state of Illinois' spending will outstrip what it brings in by nearly $8 billion this year despite a stopgap budget agreement last month, according to a government analysis first obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Thursday morning he was among the biggest stars featured on Donald Trump's convention lineup. Thursday night, Tim Tebow declared his attendance at next week's Republican National Convention was nothing more than "a rumor."

Talks between top Republican Party officials and conservative convention delegates broke down Thursday, increasing the odds of nationally televised clashes that GOP leaders have been hoping to avoid at next week's national convention.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump postponed a news conference scheduled for Friday in New York to announce his running mate after the deadly truck attack in Nice, France.

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Senate Republicans have taken big leads in key battleground states, according to a new poll – suggesting the presence of Donald Trump at the top of the ticket may not be as damaging for congressional candidates as some party leaders feared and complicating Democrats’ hopes of taking back control of the chamber.

Congress exited a sweltering Washington on Thursday, its dysfunction on full display as it left behind must-do legislation to combat the mosquito-borne Zika virus and a stalemate over lawmakers' basic job of fulfilling agency budgets.

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The U.S. Senate's lone black Republican said he has personally experienced discrimination by law enforcement, claiming Wednesday in a candid speech on race relations that he was pulled over seven times in one year.

The former chairman of the agency that controls New York City-area airports conspired with a United Airlines lobbyist to use his post to get the airline to run direct flights to South Carolina so that he could more easily visit his vacation home, officials said Thursday.

FBI Director James Comey predicted an exodus of Islamic State fighters spreading worldwide as they prepare for the potential fall of the so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, warning lawmakers Thursday that ISIS will become increasingly “desperate” to launch attacks elsewhere.

Two Massachusetts lawmakers are pushing to classify violence against police as a hate crime, in the wake of the attacks in Dallas and other cities on officers.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday she regrets the critical comments she made about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, after facing a bipartisan backlash.

Donald Trump appears to have eliminated Hillary Clinton’s lead in the wake of the FBI’s investigation of her email practices, according to several new polls – even surging ahead of her in one national survey – all indicating that the issue of trust is weighing heavily on voters.

Just days after ending his campaign and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing to take his message to the printed page.

Planting season on Capitol Hill came early this year.

Top Republican officials and recalcitrant conservatives held closed-door talks Thursday in what some delegates said was an effort to head-off a clash at next week's GOP national convention that could embarrass the party.

Sen. Steve Daines of Montana will be fly-fishing with his wife.

Warning: Donald Trump hasn’t made a final decision about his running mate. So what follows is a mixture of reporting and analysis.

There are war heroes, a casino magnate, athletes and even an underwear model in the lineup, yet Donald Trump is relying heavily on his party's establishment to fill the speaking program for next week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.