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First lady Melania Trump has arrived in Beijing, the third and final leg of her trip to Asia with President Donald Trump, who will continue on to Vietnam and the Philippines.  

The man who allegedly assaulted GOP Sen. Rand Paul outside his Kentucky residence pleaded not guilty Thursday to misdemeanor assault in the fourth degree at his arraignment in Bowling Green.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will help transport hurricane survivors from Puerto Rico to the continental United States, with priority given to approximately 3,000 people who are living in shelters, the agency said.

The House ways and means committee is expected to approve the Republican tax bill Thursday, setting it up for a House floor vote next week. The Senate finance panel will also introduce its major tax plan tenets Thursday, setting it up for committee consideration next week.

A member of President Donald Trump's voting integrity commission is suing the panel and its leadership, alleging the group is not fairly balanced and that it is withholding key information from him.

President Donald Trump told a group of Democratic senators Tuesday that he'd be a "big loser" if the Republicans' plan to overhaul the tax system is signed into law, multiple people with direct knowledge of the call told CNN.

If the House Republicans' tax bill became law, every income group could see a tax cut. But the top 1% of households would do considerably better than everyone else, according to a new analysis.

Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for Senate in Alabama, ruled in a 1990s divorce case that a woman who had a lesbian affair couldn't visit her children unsupervised or with her partner, writing that the "minor children will be detrimentally affected by the present lifestyle" of the mother.

"Right now, he's probably in his PJs watching cable news, reaching for his cell phone/ In the middle of the night from the privacy of a gold-plated white toilet seat, he's writing Liddle Bob Corker, NFL and covfefe."

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the White House's senior environmental adviser told a Senate committee Wednesday that controversial comments she made, including comparing the belief in global warming to paganism, were taken out of context but added there could have been some mistakes in her writings.

The head of the powerful House judiciary committee, Bob Goodlatte, is not running for re-election, the Virginia Republican announced Thursday.

This fall has seen a steady stream of Republican House members announcing their plans to resign, retire or run for another office.

The House intelligence committee plans to interview next week the Russian-American lobbyist who was at the Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. last year, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has expressed concern about the potential legal exposure of his son, Michael Flynn Jr., who, like his father, is under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

The story of Rand Paul allegedly being attacked by a neighbor -- and breaking six ribs in the process -- is strange on its face.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is cranking up his criticism of Donald Trump, saying political discourse in the country has degraded under the President's watch.

President Donald Trump had a "frank, open and productive" exchange with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday that included talks on human rights and disputes in the South China Sea, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.