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The Pentagon's watchdog is establishing a new team in Ukraine to monitor ongoing US security assistance to Kyiv as a growing number of Republicans call for more oversight into how the money is being used.

By opening an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unleashed an unpredictable and treacherous new political force into what is already the most abnormal election of modern times.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday defended her approach to the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump in 2019, in her first public comments on the Republican effort to launch an inquiry into President Joe Biden.

It's hard to believe there's a new eyewitness account from a Secret Service agent who was right there at the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Attorneys for Hunter Biden have filed a civil lawsuit against former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, alleging illegal hacking in violation of federal computer privacy laws.

A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that a regulation intended to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful, delivering a major blow to the Biden administration.

Donald Trump has publicly and privately encouraged House Republicans' push to impeach President Joe Biden ahead of their potential rematch in 2024, two sources close to the former president said.

House GOP leaders are engaged in talks with hard-right members in an urgent push to salvage their spending bill plans -- but are now considering an abrupt change in strategy: Avoiding a government shutdown at month's end.

Surveillance video from a performing arts theater in Denver shows Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert being escorted out of the musical "Beetlejuice" on Sunday after "multiple complaints" from patrons.

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to close the Department of Education and have state governments "run the education of our children," pushing for a long-held Republican goal that has been endorsed by several other 2024 GOP candidates.

The FBI agent managing the team on the Hunter Biden criminal case testified to the House Judiciary Committee that US Attorney David Weiss had ultimate authority over the case, contesting testimony brought forward by whistleblowers.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview Wednesday that he never recommended a US military attack on Iran during the Trump administration, pushing back on claims made by former President Donald Trump and his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

President Joe Biden's team has begun to execute an impeachment playbook more than a year in the making: Discredit the investigators while sticking to the business of governing.

A federal appeals court has blocked federal prosecutors from obtaining a swath of cellphone records from a Pennsylvania Republican congressman who worked to overturn Donald Trump's election defeat in 2020, in a ruling that could have dramatic legal implications that benefit federal lawmakers.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's announcement of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden has done little to quell his troubles in the spending showdown with House conservatives, setting up a potential clash with his right flank that could force the speaker to choose between keeping the government open and keeping his job.

Former President Donald Trump will be restricted on how and when he can look at, and talk about, classified information, a judge decided Wednesday after a sealed hearing the day before.

President Joe Biden is trying to walk a fine line as the clock ticks toward a looming deadline for a possible UAW strike of the Big Three automakers, finding it more complicated than other labor negotiations that have threatened his economic story.

Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney announced Wednesday that he will not run for reelection to the Senate and called for a "new generation of leaders" as he criticized both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made several unproven claims Tuesday while announcing the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

Eugene "Buzzy" Peltola Jr., the husband of Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, has died in a plane crash in Alaska, according to a statement from the congresswoman's office.