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Ghislaine Maxwell is accused of grooming underage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton..

Rep. Louie Gohmert's lawsuit is effectively attempting to reverse President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Trump.

Trump had refused to sign the bill for days, leading an estimated 14 million people to lose a week of unemployment benefits.

Steve Ricchetti's brother is set to lobby for Amazon as he becomes Joe Biden's White House counselor.

Ahead of the crucial Jan. 5 Senate runoff election that will decide control of the upper chamber, Democrats are targeting the growing political power of AAPI and Latino communities across Georgia.

Congress must now vote again on the $740 billion defense bill to override Trump's veto.

Trump has not said whether he will sign the bill, which will keep the government funded and provide a financial lifeline to those hit by the Covid pandemic.

Media allies of President Trump, such as Fox News, have been sent letters by Dominion Voting Systems about election conspiracy claims.

The second wave of pardons comes as Trump still refuses to concede he lost the election to Joe Biden.

The legislation sets aside $15 billion for grants to entities that include museums and zoos. It caps a long push for the bipartisan Save Our Stages Act.

The environmental measures attached to the Covid-19 relief bill mark the first significant climate change legislation to pass in the U.S. in about a decade.

House Democrats tried to pass $2,000 direct payments by unanimous consent Thursday, but Republicans blocked the move.

"Doing this at the last second, to me, is not conducive because the American people are the ones who lose in this fight," GOP Rep. Tom Reed told CNBC.

Trump threatened to oppose a more than $2 trillion coronavirus relief and government spending bill only after Congress passed it.

Dominion Voting has pushed back hard against claims by President Trump and others that Joe Biden won the election because of fraud involving ballot machines.

New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii and Iowa filed a brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine the ability to tax nonresidents' income.

In the crucial Georgia Senate runoffs, Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are using Trump's new move to bash GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

President Trump, in a stunning tweet, called the $900 billion Covid relief bill passed by Congress an unsuitable "disgrace."

Buttigieg, Biden's choice for Transportation secretary, received campaign donations from executives at companies that had contracts with South Bend.

The pardons by Trump went to ex0Republican congressmen, Blackwater guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians, and two people convicted in the Mueller probe.