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Negotiations to repeal and replace Obamacare are fully underway now in the US Senate, where Republican lawmakers are grappling with how they can find consensus between their moderate and conservative factions while still managing to get the 50 Republicans they need to gut the Affordable Care Act.

Top officials at the State Department, Department of Defense and the US intelligence community are urging the White House not to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, warning that such a decision would be harmful to the peace process and carry broader regional risks, a senior administration official and several US officials told CNN.

For the second time in President Donald Trump's young administration, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals will listen to lawyers battle over the legality of his executive order temporarily blocking foreigners from traveling to the US.

Former President Barack Obama has a new home -- for his golf clubs.

The US said Monday it believes the Syrian government has built a large crematorium near the notorious Saydnaya Military Prison in an effort to hide mass atrocities carried out there, in newly unveiled declassified intelligence.

Former Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page is asking the Department of Justice to release documents that could detail efforts undertaken by the Obama administration to surveil him -- and using Maroon 5 to make his case.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is inviting deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to an all-Senators briefing at the Capitol next week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday afternoon.

The shockwaves that reverberated through Washington last week with the sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey might take a while to subside as members of the House and Senate will remain focused this week on why it happened and the ramifications for the investigations into Russia's meddling in the US elections.

Democrats are embracing reality when it comes to threats of blocking President Donald Trump's FBI director selection: They'll need Republican help to get it done, according to a senior Democratic aide.

The attorney general on Friday made an unfortunate announcement that will impact the lives of millions of Americans: he issued new instructions for prosecutors to charge suspects with the most serious provable offenses, "those that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences."

A reeling White House has no obvious path out of one of the most intense self-imposed crises in modern political history, as the shockwaves of President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey intensify.

Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks announced Monday he will run for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat.

The Trump administration's new "election integrity" commission "is not set up to prove or to disprove" President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud, according to the vice chair of the commission.

The Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court opinion from last summer that struck down North Carolina's voter ID law.

Former FBI Director James Comey made a rare public appearance Saturday night when he attended a musical in Washington.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a stern warning Sunday about the state of the US government after President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey last week, saying he thinks US institutions are "under assault."