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Amid a flurry of calls by fellow Senate Democrats to resign, Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges relating to an alleged bribery conspiracy involving payments in gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, a luxury car and passing sensitive information to the Egyptian government.

President Joe Biden's campaign is out with a new ad slamming Donald Trump's record with autoworkers ahead of Trump's visit to the battleground state of Michigan, underscoring how critical working-class voters will be in the upcoming presidential election, as the country gears up for a potential Trump-Biden rematch in 2024.

With just four days before government funding expires, there is still no clear path to avert a shutdown.

"Not a joke, folks," President Joe Biden likes to say to punctuate points in speeches that few would mistake for jokes.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee subpoenaed a bank for Hunter Biden's records and obtained two wire transfers from Chinese nationals to Hunter Biden in 2019 that listed President Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home as the beneficiary address, the panel announced Tuesday.

House Republicans are planning to plow ahead with their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden in the event of a government shutdown, though a lapse in federal funding could present logistical challenges to their investigative work.

Donald Trump will skip another Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night because no one will punish him for not being there.

The indictment unveiled on Friday against Sen. Robert Menendez marks another chapter in a series of troubling allegations that have dogged the New Jersey Democrat for years, marking the second time in a decade that he has faced corruption charges. The question the indictment leaves unanswered is, did the Egyptian government target an influential United States senator to do its bidding on Capitol Hill?

The White House is now "girding for a shutdown" and senior West Wing officials are drawing up plans for which personnel would be deemed "essential" starting on October 1 as the deadline to fund the government is only a handful of days away.

Two fake GOP electors in Michigan asked a judge this week to dismiss their charges, arguing that state Attorney General Dana Nessel conceded that they didn't have criminal intent when she said they were "brainwashed" after the 2020 election.

A New York judge found Donald Trump and his adult sons liable for fraud and canceled the Trump Organization's business certification, a shocking ruling that poses an existential threat to the former president's financial empire as he runs for a second term in the White House.

When President Joe Biden joined a picket line of autoworkers in Michigan on Tuesday, the historic moment offered a preview of next year's election and underscored the president's longtime commitment to a worker-centric economy.

President Joe Biden's younger dog, Commander, bit another US Secret Service agent at the White House Monday evening, CNN has learned, the 11th known biting incident involving the 2-year-old German Shepherd.

It was a historic moment when President Joe Biden became the first sitting president to join a picket line. Presidents have typically positioned themselves as mediators between labor and management, according to one expert.

Cassidy Hutchinson warned Tuesday that her former boss Donald Trump would not have guardrails if he wins a second term as president, arguing that Trump's violations of the Constitution after he lost the election in 2020 should be disqualifying from the White House.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency bid from Alabama, setting the stage for a new congressional map likely to include a second Black majority district to account for the state's 27% Black population.

Former President Donald Trump has called his 2024 opponent Ron DeSantis a "wheelchair over the cliff kind of guy" for supporting then-Rep. Paul Ryan's 2012 plans to partially privatize Medicare but a review of Trump's comments by CNN's KFile shows that he supported the same plan at the same time.

The political walls are closing in on Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat under a federal indictment accusing him of corruption-related offenses.

The Supreme Court delivered a brief but clear message to Alabama on Tuesday: When we said you defied the law, we meant it.

Hunter Biden filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against Rudy Giuliani and his former attorney, claiming they caused "total annihilation" of his digital privacy and violated federal and state computer privacy laws through their alleged efforts to hack his devices.