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Just how much longer the federal government can keep paying its bills on time and in full depends greatly on this year's tax collections.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a plea to House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to back his debt ceiling plan, telling them that although it doesn't have to include everything they want, it will help get him to the negotiating table with President Joe Biden.

The top British defense official has cast doubt on the veracity and impact of the recently leaked American intelligence documents, going further than US officials in questioning the contents of the hundreds of pages of classified intelligence.

The Supreme Court seemed to side with a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who says the US Postal Service failed to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays.

Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan had surgery Monday to remove a small cancerous tumor in his tonsil, his office said.

Millions of Americans could face massive consequences unless Speaker Kevin McCarthy can navigate out of a debt trap he has set for President Joe Biden that is instead threatening to capture his House Republicans.

Rarely have the tectonic plates of American politics collided as visibly and explosively as they did earlier this month in Tennessee.

Officials from the FBI and Navy are investigating the role a pro-Russia social media account had in spreading photos of classified US documents online -- and have contacted a former Navy noncommissioned officer who was affiliated with the account, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN.

American perceptions of immigration policy tend to focus primarily on the southern border with Mexico.

A member of the private online chatroom where a major leak of US classified documents surfaced has defended 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who was charged in connection to the leak on Friday, telling CNN that Teixeira shared the classified material to keep other members informed, "so we won't be shocked by the news cycles."

Sen. John Fetterman has returned to the Senate after receiving treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The Pennsylvania Democrat began inpatient treatment in February and was discharged at the end of March.

Embattled GOP Rep. George Santos announced Monday he will seek reelection in 2024 to represent New York's 3rd Congressional District, defying the calls from some Republicans on Capitol Hill and in his district to step aside.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has returned to the Senate following a period of recovery in the wake of a fall.

Jury selection begins next Tuesday in E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit alleging that Trump raped her in a New York dressing room in the mid-1990s

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday threatened to build a prison or a competing theme park near the Magic Kingdom or raise taxes on Walt Disney World to retaliate against the company for resisting a state takeover of its special taxing district.

The FBI has arrested two alleged Chinese agents and federal prosecutors have charged dozens of others with working to silence and harass dissidents within the United States -- with some even operating an "undeclared police station" in New York City.

Lawmakers face a lengthy to-do list as they return to the Capitol after a two-week recess to confront a series of critical issues ranging from a looming debt limit crisis to the fallout from a leak of highly classified Pentagon documents.

Senate Republicans are prepared to block Democratic efforts to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the powerful Judiciary committee, ratcheting up pressure on the 89-year-old California Democrat to resign or return quickly to allow President Joe Biden's judicial nominees to be confirmed.

As former President Donald Trump and his allies attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting Trump on felony charges of falsifying business records, the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Monday in Manhattan to castigate Bragg for his handling of violent crime.

House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are exemplifying the lengths they are willing to go to discredit Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's criminal case against former President Donald Trump with a Monday New York field hearing on Bragg's home turf.