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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a contentious congressional hearing on Monday that the Taliban "is the de facto government of Afghanistan."

President Joe Biden next week will deliver his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly since taking office.

Prince Andrew is accused of sexually abusing a Jeffrey Epstein accuser while she was in the clutches of that ex-friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.

Capitol Police arrested a man with a machete and a bayonet in his pickup, which was painted with a swastika, near DNC headquarters early Monday.

Inbound flights of Afghan refugees to the United States will remain suspended for at least a week, a White House spokeswoman said Monday.

House Democrats proposed a 26.5% top corporate tax rate and 39.6% top individual rate as they try to pay for a $3.5 trillion bill.

Blinken is expected to defend the administration's handling of the situation by arguing that President Joe Biden was faced with two difficult options: "ending the war or escalating it."

SEC says media companies linked to wealthy Chinese exile Guo Wengui settle for over $500 million following probe.

Democrats aim to pass President Biden's economic plans, fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and approve an abortion rights bill in weeks.

Boies Schiller Flexner has experienced a rapid exodus of several top attorneys, many of whom were bothered by purported decisions by the firm's founders.

Manchin's comments come as lawmakers work to approve the budget bill without the support of Republicans.

Regional experts are not all convinced of China's enthusiasm for barreling into the war-torn Central Asian state on its western border.  

U.S. government contracts in Afghanistan fueled a system of mass corruption that engulfed the country and, eventually, doomed its fragile democracy. 

The Afghans diagnosed with measles are in quarantine, and the CDC has begun contact-tracing steps, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

Prince Andrew is a former friend of the late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who also socialized with Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke for the first time since February on Friday.

The Supreme Court, stacked 6-3 with conservative justices had rejected a bid to block the controversial Texas abortion law from taking effect.

The executive order will also extend to contractors who work with the U.S. government.

Rep. Liz Cheney told Donald Trump to "Bring it" after the ex-president endorsed a primary challenger to the Wyoming Republican on Thursday.

Federal prosecutors and the FBI were notified about three former Vermont State Police troopers suspected of involvement in fake coronavirus vaccination cards.