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As hot as 6.8% year over year inflation is, Friday's report is probably the best the Biden administration could have hoped for. 

Andrew Cuomo's top aide, Melissa DeRosa, and his brother Chris Cuomo were among the former governor's allies plotting to discredit Janice Dean sources said.

Andrew Cuomo's closest advisors turned to a campaign finance aide to find potentially damaging information on Lindsey Boylan, one of his accusers.

The riot-probe decision came one day after Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sued the Jan. 6 select committee over two federal subpoenas.

Congress can now vote to raise the debt ceiling with a simple majority before a Dec. 15 deadline.

Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul, is now a cattle rancher, after purchasing a massive Montana property from the Koch family.

"I have come to the conclusion that I must continue my work as attorney general," James said in a statement.

Among the ideas Gensler pitched were new rules around marketing practices, tougher disclosure requirements and liability obligations.

Federal agencies have formally committed to using $4 trillion of $4.5 trillion in approved Covid relief funding, and have paid out $3.5 trillion to date.

The Republican Mark Meadows has said he would no longer cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by Trump supporters.

James' office is investigating whether Trump's business committed fraud in reporting the valuations of its properties to banks and tax authorities.

The Senate voted to block President Biden's vaccine mandate on private employers, but the president will likely veto the bill if it comes to his desk.

The influential, libertarian-leaning Koch network has been rocked by an alleged affair scandal, departures of key donors and a workplace discrimination lawsuit.

The civil lawsuit came as the House select panel moves to hold Meadows in contempt for refusing to cooperate with the probe of the Jan. 6 invasion.

Former Hewlett Packard and Quibi CEO Meg Whitman was nominated by President Joe Biden to be his ambassador to Kenya.

The Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority appeared willing to broaden the scope of public funding for religious education.

When asked how Biden addressed Putin's "red lines," national security advisor Jake Sullivan said that Biden made "made no such commitments or concessions."

Biden said Wednesday that his administration was not considering sending U.S. troops to Ukraine amid an alarming Russian military buildup on its shared border.

The House passed a bill that would allow the Senate to raise the debt ceiling with a simple majority vote.

Increasingly popular electric bicycles may grow even more so thanks to a provision in Democrats' $1.75 trillion Build Back Better bill.