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President Joe Biden is announcing a new round of ambassador picks, which includes two top donors to his 2020 presidential campaign.

The select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection is weighing whether to pursue call logs from the Trump White House on the day of the riot, a move that could present a potentially thorny dilemma for President Joe Biden who would ultimately have to determine whether the records should be covered by executive privilege or qualify as essential evidence for the ongoing probe.

The Biden administration is extending the pause on federal student loan payments one last time until January 31.

A New Jersey gym owner and former MMA fighter pleaded guilty on Friday to assaulting a police officer during the January 6 insurrection, marking the first time a Capitol rioter has been convicted of violence against police.

Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb is set to enter next year's Senate race on Friday as one of the most important and closely-watched Democratic primary contests of 2022 takes shape.

I have been embedded with every branch of the US military multiple times -- in war zones and on base -- but nothing is quite like an inside look at the newly created US Space Force. Space Force "Guardians," as they're known, do their work hundreds -- even thousands of miles -- from the front lines of the conflicts they are fighting.

Sen. Rob Portman, the longtime Washington veteran and savvy deal-cutter, is on the cusp of achieving a major bipartisan achievement that would amount to a capstone of his three decades of public service: The Senate's passage of a roughly $1 trillion package to rebuild the nation's infrastructure.

President Joe Biden on Friday touted the country's economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic after the US added 943,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%.

A US Defense Department expert team concluded that the drone behind the deadly attack on the Mercer Street commercial vessel was produced in Iran, US Central Command said in a statement Friday.

For the 535 members of Congress, the haunting memories of the violence and chaos from January 6 don't go away as they leave Washington, DC.

The Lanz family tells CNN that their son Austin Lanz, the man authorities say killed a Pentagon Police officer on Tuesday morning, had "many mental health challenges."

A lawyer representing Indiana University students asked the Supreme Court Friday to block the school's vaccine mandate that is set to take effect this fall while the appeals process plays out.

Justice Department lawyers defended the Biden administration's most recent eviction moratorium Friday telling a federal judge that because of the "deteriorating public health situation" related to the Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that it needed "a new invocation" of its responsibility "to protect public health."

As the US economy gradually recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, prices are rising across the board with inflation exceeding the Federal Reserve's 2% target and reaching a 13-year high in June. Republicans have turned that jump in inflation into a political talking point, trying to place the blame on President Joe Biden and Democrats, and at times misrepresenting the current economic landscape in the process.

President Donald Trump -- back in the final days of his presidency -- didn't exactly make a secret of his effort to overturn the election he'd just lost and so it's very easy to get tired of thinking about it, now that he's out of office and his official powers have been clipped.

For House Republicans, their path back to power could rest on the backs of GOP women.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer moved on Thursday night to cut off debate on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, paving the way for swift passage of the sweeping legislation that would enact key elements of President Joe Biden's economic agenda, although exact timing of a final vote is still unclear.

Even President Joe Biden did not sound particularly confident his administration's new freeze on evictions would hold up in court when he explained the move in the East Room this week. Instead, he said the new ban, even if challenged, would at least "give some additional time" for billions in unspent housing relief dollars to reach those in need.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law on August 6, 1965.

The president of Guatemala had a private piece of advice for Vice President Kamala Harris when she visited earlier this summer, on her goal of slowing the rush of hopeful migrants to the US border with Mexico.