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Donald Trump takes tremendous pride in being rich. Just ask him.

Monica Lewinsky said Tuesday that social media companies "need to do better" as scrutiny builds over new revelations from a Facebook whistleblower, who suggested the social media giant has been aware its platforms are used to spread hate, violence and misinformation and has tried to hide that evidence.

Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley excoriated President Joe Biden's handling of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan on Tuesday, becoming the latest potential 2024 contender to grace the stage at the Ronald Reagan Library as the GOP looks to chart its course after the defeat of former President Donald Trump.

Missouri executed death row inmate Ernest Johnson on Tuesday after the US Supreme Court rejected a petition earlier in the day that had sought to delay it, citing an intellectual disability.

President Joe Biden said in a virtual meeting with a group of House progressives on Monday that the top line of the social safety net package needs to come down to somewhere between $1.9 trillion and $2.2 trillion, according to two sources familiar with the call.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday pushed back on several politically sensitive positions his party leaders are taking at a crucial time for President Joe Biden's domestic agenda.

The Treasury Department sent a warning to Arizona's Republican governor Tuesday about the state's use of federal Covid-19 relief funds for grant programs that circumvent school mask requirements.

Stephanie Grisham is on something of a reclamation tour these days.

A federal judge overseeing the campaign finance trial of Lev Parnas said he would likely question prospective jurors about former President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani as their names and images are likely to be mentioned during the three-week trial.

The United States admitted 11,411 people through the refugee admissions program in fiscal year 2021, according to the State Department, the lowest number in 40 years.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday will travel to Michigan to rally support for his twin economic packages that remain stalled on Capitol Hill because of sharp divisions within his own party about the size and scope of the plans.

One of former President Donald Trump's top ex-aides said Tuesday that the Republican's "vanity got in the way" of his administration's response to Covid-19.

A bipartisan group of former public officials and lawyers are urging the California bar association to investigate a conservative lawyer who reportedly tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned on Tuesday that action must be taken soon to avert a debt limit crisis, saying in a floor speech, "it's not too late, but it's getting dangerously close," as a key deadline looms on October 18.

The slow-moving oil spill off the coast of Orange County, California, this week has reinvigorated federal and state lawmakers' efforts to end offshore drilling.

Anger is peaking among a wide range of Democrats toward Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema over their resistance to President Joe Biden's economic agenda, but the Democrats' struggle to pass Biden's sweeping plan is rooted in more than the personal idiosyncrasies and electoral calculations of two individual senators.

Back in 2013, Terry McAuliffe won a majority of Black voters when he sought -- and ultimately won -- the top office in Virginia.

A lawyer for Joel Greenberg, the former Florida tax collector with close ties to Rep. Matt Gaetz, has asked a federal judge to delay his federal sentencing for the second time while he continues to cooperate with the federal government.

US Capitol Police are investigating a "suspicious vehicle" in front of the Supreme Court and have closed roads in the area, the agency said on Twitter.