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Mourners gathered on the front steps of San Francisco City Hall Thursday to remember the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a funeral service.

Washington and Congress have their own, often impenetrable, languages. So it may be somewhat confusing to assess what it means that the office of the speaker of the House of Representatives is vacant.

Lawmakers and aides arrived for work on Wednesday to find a House of Representatives stuck in freeze-frame, a giant blue screen declaring them "in recess" almost the entire day.

Over the past year, Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips has made a name for himself as the member of the Democratic Party most willing to break rank and call on someone to primary President Joe Biden. His insistence that his party elevate its next generation has led to one person's demotion from Democratic leadership: his own.

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he doesn't believe border walls work, even as his administration said it will waive 26 laws to build additional border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley amid heightened political pressure over migration.

The US will transfer thousands of seized Iranian weapons and rounds of ammunition to Ukraine, in a move that could help to alleviate some of the critical shortages facing the Ukrainian military as it awaits more money and equipment from the US and its allies, US officials said.

Getting rid of Kevin McCarthy didn't solve anything.

Californians are paying their respects to the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday, as the political titan lies in state at San Francisco City Hall.

Former President Donald Trump urged a New York judge to dismiss criminal charges relating to hush money payments in sweeping arguments that included claims Trump was indicted to interfere in his 2024 presidential campaign.

Former President Donald Trump's campaign said Wednesday that the Republican presidential frontrunner raised more than $45.5 million for his political operation during the third quarter of this year, improving his haul over the previous three-month period.

Senior Biden administration officials privately believe only weeks remain before a lack of additional Ukraine funding starts to become a serious battlefield concern -- a scenario they are trying to avoid with public warnings and a major speech from President Joe Biden himself.

Former President Donald Trump has complained repeatedly that the civil trial in New York, where he's accused of business fraud, does not have a jury -- and the fate of the case is up to Judge Arthur Engoron.

As Kevin McCarthy was on the brink of losing his speakership, some of his allies delivered a not-so-veiled threat to GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina: If you vote to oust McCarthy, the party might not be willing to help raise money for your race.

President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden's 2-year-old German shepherd, Commander, has been involved in more biting incidents than previously reported at the White House, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

An unnamed female CIA trainee who claims she was sexually assaulted in a stairwell at CIA headquarters in 2022 is suing the agency, claiming that the CIA "repeatedly and improperly" discouraged her from lodging a criminal complaint against her assailant and attempted to intimidate her from testifying at his trial.

Nadine Arslanian Menendez, wife of Sen. Bob Menendez, hit and killed a pedestrian in a 2018 car crash, according to a police report. That car crash, which took place prior to her marriage to the New Jersey Democrat, is alleged to be the inception of a bribe in the federal indictment against the couple.

President Joe Biden is expected to strike a "business as usual" tone in the wake of Kevin McCarthy's unprecedented fall as House speaker, according to two officials, while the Democrat's campaign is using social media to highlight the GOP's disarray.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against President Joe Biden for calling him a "Russian pawn" during a presidential debate nearly three years ago.

The ex-IRS contractor accused of leaking former President Donald Trump's tax returns disclosed so many people's tax information that prosecutors want to notify the thousands of victims through a public website, according to a court filing Wednesday.

When Michael Whitaker last worked at the Federal Aviation Administration, his tasks included bringing air traffic control -- which tracked airplanes using strips of paper -- into the 21st century.