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It's something akin to raising the dead.

Anthony Kennedy fled the confines of Washington for the big skies of Montana to deliver his first public comments since the grand finale of a tumultuous term.

In the weeks before Republicans descended on Cleveland, the band of conservative delegates fighting against Donald Trump promised a scrappy but ardent effort to take the convention by storm.

As anticipation builds for Donald Trump to name his vice presidential pick, two hopefuls -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- appear to be the front-runners, according to a person familiar with the deliberations.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says presidential elections are a "binary choice" -- and Donald Trump is a better one than Hillary Clinton.

Citing a desire to balance "public trust" with the rights and safety of law enforcement officers, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed legislation that blocks the release of law enforcement recordings from body cameras or dashboard cameras with limited exceptions.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has one of the toughest jobs in politics right now: safeguarding the future of the Republican Party while simultaneously uniting the party around Donald Trump, its controversial presumptive nominee.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will not be speaking at the NAACP Annual Convention in Ohio next week, the civil rights organization's president and CEO said Tuesday.

Bernie Sanders finally offered Hillary Clinton his endorsement on Tuesday, ending their bitter rivalry at a campaign rally here in Portsmouth.

When Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow this week, the big loser may be the man who isn't there: Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

Senate Republicans and Democrats clashed Tuesday over how to resolve a handful of remaining bills before they leave for an extra-long summer recess at the end of the week.

David Duke is considering running for Congress.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been invited to be the marquee speaker the first night of the Democratic convention, according to two people familiar with the scheduling.

Many establishment Republicans on Capitol Hill have been reluctant to embrace Donald Trump's candidacy, but they are now talking up one of their own as a possible vice presidential pick -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who served in House GOP leadership -- as a plus to the 2016 ticket.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is no longer receiving Secret Service protection, a source said Tuesday.

The group that has forced a series of difficult test votes on LGBT issues at the Republican National Convention early meetings plans to take that fight all the way to the floor of the convention.

House Republicans are circulating a letter that urges several federal agencies to investigate the Clinton family's charitable foundation.

Hillary Clinton urged donors on Tuesday at a showing of the Broadway smash hit "Hamilton" to "not throw away our shot" during the 2016 election -- a reference to one of the hit songs in the multi-Tony winning musical.

A contract employee for the Department of Homeland Security was arrested Monday after allegedly attempting to take a concealed firearm through security at the department's headquarters, DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron said.

Several members of Congress want to block the start of scheduled commercial flights between the United States and Cuba, saying that security measures on the island might not be sufficient.