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Writer E. Jean Carroll is seeking to amend her New York federal court defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump after his CNN town hall comments about her.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with President Joe Biden to hammer out a compromise deal to raise the debt ceiling as the June 1 deadline looms.

Billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is looking to spend millions to support GOP Sen. Tim Scott's run for president, sources told CNBC.

Scott enters a GOP primary field that has so far been led by former President Donald Trump, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the top alternative.

An analyst has warned it is "impossible" and "dangerous" to isolate Beijing, after the G-7 issued its strongest ever message to China over the weekend.

Biden and McCarthy to meet at the White House on Monday to try to avoid looming debt default.

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Saturday that debt ceiling negotiations can't resume until President Joe Biden returns to Washington, D.C.

Mark Gorton, who also created LimeWire, says he's helped fund presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine group.

Russian forces seized the Ukrainian port city Mariupol a year ago. Its exiled mayor has a plan to rebuild it.

The White House and Republican lawmakers are under intense pressure to reach a deal before June, when the U.S. could default on its debt.

The fallout from the Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights has ended the nomination of a prosecutor to the high court of Connecticut.

Former OPM employee Sheron Spann will be sentenced Sept. 21 for steering information technology contracts to a company her husband co-founded.

The latest in the fight between Disney and the Florida governor comes as DeSantis gears up to launch his 2024 presidential campaign next week.

Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio and others have weighed in on the fraying U.S.-China relations and rising tensions over a possible invasion of Taiwan.

Scott arrives as an underdog to the Republican primary field that former President Donald Trump has so far led.

"We will continue our joint effort to support Ukraine's repair of its critical infrastructure, recovery and reconstruction," the G-7 said in its statement.

Mark Miller, a Minnesota home contractor, is the last of three men to be sentenced for securities fraud involving dormant shell companies and penny stocks.

The Andy Warhol Foundation had defended its right to license artwork that was based on a photo of Prince by Lynn Goldsmith at the Supreme Court.

An 18-year-old Wisconsin man was charged for a scheme to hack and sell access to user accounts at DraftKings.