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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell's office released an update Tuesday about the 81-year-old Kentuckian's health after he froze in front of cameras last week for the second time in as many months.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton "wasn't the man he publicly proclaimed to be," the state House Republican who is leading the impeachment case against Paxton told the state Senate on Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump continues to hold what has proven to be an unshakeable position atop the Republican field of candidates vying to take on President Joe Biden next year, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and leading a failed plot to prevent the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

The Capitol's attending physician, Brian Monahan, said in a new letter that there is no evidence Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has a seizure disorder -- or that he experienced a stroke or a movement disorder such as Parkinson's disease -- after the 81-year-old Kentuckian was evaluated by a group of neurologists following two recent health scares in front of TV cameras.

A federal appeals panel on Tuesday declined to issue a broad order blocking special counsel Jack Smith's team from accessing data from Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry's cell phone that was seized by the FBI, and sent the case back to a lower court for further litigation over what material investigators can examine.

A federal court blocked a newly drawn Alabama congressional map on Tuesday because it didn't create a second majority-Black district as the Supreme Court had ordered earlier this year.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Speaker Kevin McCarthy aren't typically aligned on many issues. But they were kindred spirits in a recent phone call on one key priority: boosting pay for wildland firefighters.

Former White House aide Gabe Amo will win the Democratic special election primary for Rhode Island's 1st District, CNN projects, likely setting him up to be the first Black person to represent the state in Congress.

The three US military service secretaries went on the offensive against Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville over his ongoing hold on senior military nominations in an interview with CNN on Tuesday, saying he is aiding communist and autocratic regimes, and being used by adversaries like China against the US.

President Joe Biden is nominating former US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew as his ambassador to Israel at a fraught moment in US-Israel ties.

A jury was seated Tuesday in former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro's criminal contempt of Congress trial, marking the start of what's expected to be a speedy trial for the one-time aide to former President Donald Trump.

Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal peril.

There are two Republican primaries as an election season that defies conventional metrics and campaign trail traditions crashes into its fall stretch.

First lady Jill Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday and is experiencing "mild symptoms," the White House said. President Joe Biden has tested negative.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may travel to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin for discussions on a potential deal to supply Moscow with weapons for its war on Ukraine, according to the US government.

The impeachment trial of Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general who faces accusations of repeatedly abusing his office to help a donor, is set to begin Tuesday in the Republican-controlled state Senate.

President Joe Biden on Monday threw numerous verbal jabs at his predecessor in a Labor Day speech, aiming to use his administration's record as a way to undermine the inroads Donald Trump has made into a core part of Biden's political coalition.

Wisconsin Republicans, after a string of losses in hotly contested statewide races, are taking steps toward sidelining the state's nonpartisan elections chief and undercutting the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court.

Much remains unknown of course about the presidential general election whose traditional kick-off will come one year from today on Labor Day, 2024.