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President-elect Donald Trump and chef Geoffrey Zakarian are at an impasse in settlement talks regarding their lawsuit over Trump's cancellation of Zakarian's restaurant at the Trump Hotel and told a judge Tuesday they are ready to set a trial date.

House Republicans will vote Tuesday on a proposal that would weaken Congress' outside independent ethics watchdog charged with investigating potential rules violations.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have settled on a property in Washington, DC.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, as Republicans prepared for the first time in a decade to assume almost unfettered control of the federal government, the House GOP voted in a closed-door meeting to decimate the chamber's independent nonpartisan oversight office.

Sen. Chuck Schumer said Democrats will work with President-elect Donald Trump -- if he abandons his Republican comrades.

Vice President Joe Biden fulfilled his duty Tuesday as president of the Senate when he swore in senators for the 115th Congress.

Sen. Chuck Schumer lamented Tuesday the Democrats' move to diminish the number of senators needed to confirm Cabinet picks from 60 votes to 51, because the new rule now hurts his party.

Ford is canceling plans to build a new plant in Mexico. It will invest $700 million in Michigan instead, creating 700 new U.S. jobs.

House Speaker Paul Ryan will sit down with CNN's Jake Tapper for a prime-time town hall just one week before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

President-elect Donald Trump revived the hot-button topic of Guantanamo Bay Tuesday, warning against further prisoner transfers from the detention facility during the waning days of the Obama administration.

Paul Ryan is expected to be easily re-elected Tuesday as speaker of the House, kicking off the new Congress and marking a quiet end following a year that saw both parties questioning their congressional leadership.

Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush will attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, the 43rd president's office said in a statement Tuesday.

A group of bipartisan senators is preparing a bill that would offer sanctions against Russia, lawmakers confirmed as the Senate convened a new session of Congress on Tuesday.

British pop singer Rebecca Ferguson says she has been invited to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration, but her response may not be the RSVP the President-elect's team were expecting.

Republicans are wasting no time in their effort to repeal Obamacare.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, the incoming Democratic Senate leader, said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump told him he liked him more than Republican leaders in Congress.

Democrats plotting a return from the political wilderness are facing their first big dilemma: how fiercely to fight President-elect Donald Trump.

The US administration is "is 100% certain in the role that Russia played" in election-related hacking, State Department Spokesman John Kirby told CNN.

Former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado is the front-runner to head the US Departure of Agriculture, a source familiar with the transition process told CNN Tuesday.

Robert Lighthizer was deputy US trade representative during Ronald Reagan's administration. He is a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom.