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The private activity is the latest indication the second-term Republican governor is laying a foundation for a potential White House bid....

Elon Musk said he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to discuss ensuring Twitter "is fair to both parties."...

Tips for the 2023 tax season: Don't call the IRS on Mondays, triple-check for errors, don't mail a return if you don't have to, and other tax advice....

Virginia's Republican-controlled House of Delegates and Democratic-controlled Senate are cancelling out one another in considering controversial issues....

Schiff will join an increasingly crowded race for the seat of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a fellow Democrat who has not said whether she will seek reelection....

Democrats are seizing on a Republican proposal to impose a national sales tax and abolish the IRS as a cudgel against the GOP, despite little chance of the bill passing....

The Justice Department filed its second lawsuit against search giant Google Tuesday, this time over the company's dominance in online advertising....

Russia's leading opposition figure survived an assassination attempt in 2020, but supporters say the Kremlin is now trying to kill him by brutal treatment in jail....

Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief, is charged with money laundering and other counts connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska....

A Massachusetts man accused of paying undercover FBI agents to kill his wife and her boyfriend now faces a murder-for-hire charge, officials said....

Inflatable bunnies and bustling flower markets add to the festivities as Hong Kong welcomes visitors from mainland China to ring in the Year of the Rabbit....

Mitch Daniels's possible Senate bid tests if there's any appetite for his kind of conservative politics after the Republican Party has been distorted by Trump....

It marks the department's first correspondence with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in his new role as chair of the panel....

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The emails were released as part of an investigation by a parliamentary committee of the British government's handling of its August withdrawal from Afghanistan....

For the first time since the Trump era, D.C. is bracing for a continued barrage of House Republican bills or investigations as Republicans flex their authority over the District....

In "The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise," Iyer seeks beauty and enlightenment in Iran, Sri Lanka, Japan and India....

Santos will be on the Small Business Committee, despite allegations of impropriety in his business background. And Greene will be on Homeland Security, despite lodging conspiracy theories about the homeland....

Iraq is hosting the Arabian Gulf Cup soccer tournament for the first time since 1979, seeking to turn the page on decades of violence, instability and isolation....

Russia didn't experience the doomsday scenario many expected. But economic pressure is creating both short-term and long-term problems....

The New York republican will serve on the House Science, Space and Technology committee as well as the Small Business committee, according to sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly....

Democrat Aaron Rouse defeated Republican Kevin Adams in the special election for an open Senate seat. Rouse is scheduled to be sworn in on Wednesday....

Banks isn't likely to have the GOP field to himself in the Republican-leaning state....

A former Republican candidate for New Mexico's House was arrested for allegedly orchestrating shootings that targeted Democratic politicians' homes and offices....

A top Republican House member wants visitor logs from Biden's Wilmington home, as well as "communications related to the searches" of Biden's home....

Hong Kong's sports groups risk losing funding and the right to represent the city if the directive is not followed....

A news service linked to the Iranian judiciary said the dual British-Iranian national had been hanged, without providing details on when the execution took place....

Ukrainian officials disputed Russia's assertions and said the fight for the small salt mining city, in the eastern Donetsk region, was still underway....

The change, which could face a court challenge, aims to close a loophole on a device that makes pistols more like short-barreled rifles....

Just 67 North Koreans arrived in South Korea last year, marking the second year of record-low arrivals as North Korea remains more reclusive than ever in the pandemic....

The IRS has struggled to process tax returns and answer taxpayer questions over the past three years. The 2023 tax season opens Jan. 23. Will things be better?...

Undercover FBI agents are threatened by bureaucratic lapses and training shortfalls, an inspector general warns....

A Republican nominated his Democratic friend as a compromise state House speaker. Now politics are straining their relationship....

Alireza Akbari, a British-Iranian national and former Iranian deputy defense official, was accused of spying for Britain and sentenced to death....

Eight Republican chairs have each served less than 10 years in the House, up from just three who took over gavels in 2011....

While some absentee and provisional ballots remain to be counted, Democrat Aaron Rouse has a narrow lead over the Republican, with all precincts reporting....

The IRS reduced its massive backlog of tax returns by nearly two-thirds over the past year, which could lead to shorter delays for refunds....

Moscow said its forces had seized the town of Soledar in Donetsk region, a gateway the city of Bakhmut, where bloody fighting has raged for months. Kyiv denied Russia's claim....

The chamber is poised to vote on two abortion-related measures. Neither is expected to advance in the Senate, but they underscore a marked change in focus now that Republicans are in control....

The special election in the Virginia Beach-based swing district attracted national attention as a proxy for the future of abortion access in the state....

The House Majority PAC is the principal outside group that funds ads for Democratic members of Congress....

They moved to defund the IRS. Now some prominent Republicans have pointed to targets that could be politically dicey, from defense spending to the Department of Homeland Security....

The chamber is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the creation of a panel being billed as the "Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government."...

Congressional Republicans base their first bill on a widely debunked claim....

The party-line vote marked the first major legislative effort by a new GOP majority now under the leadership of Speaker Kevin McCarthy....

The right-wing populist shocks that hit both Britain and the United States in 2016 have exacerbated the internal dysfunctions within both countries' right-wing parties....

Travelers no longer have to quarantine upon arrival in mainland China, as the country continues to roll back its covid restrictions....

They are the third and fourth protesters to be executed by the government....

In a deal with hard-liners, the California Republican won the gavel but set up a showdown over government spending...

The city is considering limiting purchases of cold medicine as pharmacy shelves are cleared by people sending pills to coronavirus-stricken mainland China....