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Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would kill 1.4 million jobs, the Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis Monday t...

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chair Carolyn B. Maloney asked the social media platform Parler to hand over financial information,...

Six-term Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said Monday he will not seek re-election in 2022, becoming the latest Republican lawmaker to announce p...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A bill to repeal a bailout of two aging nuclear power plants at the heart of a federal $60 million bribery probe has b...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who had battled health challenges over the past year including lung cancer treat...

Des Moines Register. Feb. 7, 2021. Editorial: Inexplicable and irresponsible: Iowa governor lifts mask mandate while 180,000 doses of COVID-...

WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Department of Health has set up a pop-up clinic in Winooski to vaccinate refugees and immigrants in the are...

A founding member of Facebook’s oversight board responsible for impartially adjudicating enforcement and government issues has quit the boar...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The University of Alabama at Birmingham has removed the name of four-term governor and presidential candidate George...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Police have charged a Kashmiri man seeking the body of his teenage son, who was slain by government forces, with cons...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Tension in the confrontations between the authorities and demonstrators against last week’s coup in Myanmar boiled ov...

NEW YORK (AP) - When he was Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen was hellbent on silencing Stormy Daniels, even arranging a hush-money pay...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador is headed to a runoff presidential election in April with its deep political divisions evident after the first...

The left is rebelling against the idea of reducing the number of Americans eligible for $1,400 checks in President Biden’s massive coronavir...

The Biden Homeland Security Department has concluded that at least eight agreements signed by the Trump administration giving states a stake...

President Biden said he’d rather give the “young guy” - Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes - a shot at throwing him the ball ove...

Kenneth Grayson made clear what he was ready to do for President Trump in a Facebook posting in late December. Pondering the upcoming Jan. 6...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Simply creating a task force to study law enforcement training and misconduct issues amid a national discussion abou...

If the new impeachment standard is inflammatory speech, then House Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer should be the next in line after forme...

PORTLAND, Maine — The U.S. Postal Service's stretch of challenges didn't end with the November general election and tens of millions of mail...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers are considering dueling proposals to restore voting rights for people convicted of a felony. The Ric...

President Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, George P. Shultz, has died at age 100. Shultz spent most of the 1980s trying to impro...

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - The commemoration of South Carolina's deadliest day during the civil rights movement will be virtual this year. The...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Sunday the U.S. must make the first move to salvage the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Te...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The new owners of two Ohio nuclear power plants have given indications they are no longer interested in receiving as m...