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By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton, a Democrat, announced Monday she won't seek reelection in her competitive district in the northern…

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as a “loser” who wages “losing battles,” following a week where he’s faced criticism from both sides of the aisle over his state’s new educational standards.MSNBC’s Zinhle…

© Reuters. U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) leads a House Progressive Caucus news conference on Capitol Hill in the midst of ongoing negotiations seeking a deal to raise the United States' debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) departs a House Democratic Caucus meeting ahead of an expected vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a bill raising the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling on…

Intensive negotiations between President Joe Biden and other US leaders on the debt ceiling have sparked a surge in Twitter influencer conversations. With just a few weeks remaining before a potential debt default in June 2023,…

“Hell opened its doors, now it’s war,” cried Osman Salih as he sheltered at a hospital north of Khartoum. He had just returned from a hair-raising journey to fill a bucket from the river Nile that flows through Sudan’s capital, which has…

A top Democrat will accuse US regulators of allowing Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank to “grow too big, too fast”, drawing parallels between the lenders’ collapse and the 2008 financial crisis in a congressional hearing on…

Issued on: 03/02/2023 - 11:50 U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as…

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s term and…

When Hakeem Jeffries was growing up in Crown Heights, a working-class neighbourhood in Brooklyn, his congresswoman was Shirley Chisholm, a New York politician who in 1968 became the first black woman elected to the US Congress. In…