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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters after passing the funding bill to avert the government shutdown at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
13 hours ago

Shutdown saga exposes new fault lines for Speaker Johnson and tests his grip on the gavel

Read full article: Shutdown saga exposes new fault lines for Speaker Johnson and tests his grip on the gavel

One of the most turbulent sessions of Congress in the modern era is about to make way for the next one.

FILE - A vehicle pushes up pikes of snow after trucks dump their loads of snow in the parking lots of RFK Stadium in Washington, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
18 hours ago

Senate passes RFK Stadium land bill, giving the Washington Commanders a major off-the-field win

Read full article: Senate passes RFK Stadium land bill, giving the Washington Commanders a major off-the-field win

The Washington Commanders' path to returning to nation's capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve.

FILE - The Supreme Court is pictured, Oct. 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
12 hours ago

Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

Read full article: Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.

Dr. Marvin Dunn leads a tour of Overtown, a historically Black neighborhood near downtown Miami, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, file)
1 day ago

Florida requires teaching Black history. Some don't trust schools to do it justice

Read full article: Florida requires teaching Black history. Some don't trust schools to do it justice

Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

Jesus Soriano, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3403 representing the National Science Foundation and several other agencies, poses for a photo in Chevy Chase, Md., after an interview on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
12 hours ago

Deal spares federal workers before Christmas but there's concern about possible job cuts under Trump

Read full article: Deal spares federal workers before Christmas but there's concern about possible job cuts under Trump

Johnny Zuagar says he tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighs how much to spend on Christmas presents.

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk as he arrives to watch SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lift off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Nov. 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP, File)
1 day ago

Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

Read full article: Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk used his outsize influence on X to help kill a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, spreading multiple false claims in the process.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, as she reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, visit patients and families at the Children's National Hospital in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
1 day ago

Biden and the first lady bring holiday cheer to patients and families at a children's hospital

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President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, brought some holiday cheer to patients and families at a children's hospital in Washington.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
1 day ago

Trump adds Europe to the list of US trade partners he's threatening with tariffs

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President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to add the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners he'll place tariffs on — unless the group takes steps to import more U.S. goods.

FILE - Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators after defying orders to leave at an encampment on the UCLA campus, in Los Angeles, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
1 day ago

University of California campuses resolve discrimination complaints stemming from Gaza protests

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The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza.

FILE - EPA Administrator Michael Regan stands near the Marathon Petroleum Refinery as he conducts a television interview, while touring neighborhoods that abut the refinery, in Reserve, La., Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
1 day ago

EPA head Regan, who championed environmental justice, to leave office Dec. 31

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Michael Regan, who has led the Environmental Protection Agency throughout President Joe Biden’s four-year term, said Friday he will be leaving the agency Dec. 31, about three weeks before Biden’ leaves office.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, meet with reporters to mark the confirmation of 235 federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden during the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
1 day ago

Senate approves 235th judge of Biden's term, beating Trump's tally

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President Joe Biden has secured the 235th judicial confirmation of his presidency.

Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., arrives for a meeting with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
19 hours ago

Government shutdown is averted just after deadline as Congress rejects Trump's debt limit demands

Read full article: Government shutdown is averted just after deadline as Congress rejects Trump's debt limit demands

The Senate has rushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown.

FILE - Two Air Force Special Operations Command CV-22B Ospreys fly low and fast in formation on a training range named the Hornet at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Tara Copp, File)
1 day ago

US military orders new safety guidelines for key Osprey part after near-crash

Read full article: US military orders new safety guidelines for key Osprey part after near-crash

The military has ordered new safety guidelines for a key part in all Osprey aircraft after a recent accident revealed the same problem that had caused a fatal crash in Japan last year.

FILE - The Capitol in Washington, is framed by early morning clouds, March 19, 2024. Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government, or federal agencies will shutter. It's up to each federal agency to determine how it handles a shutdown, but there would be disruptions in many services. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
1 day ago

The latest: House speaker says Republicans have agreed on a new spending deal

Read full article: The latest: House speaker says Republicans have agreed on a new spending deal

With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House has approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.

Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat, speaks to reporters in the Michigan House of Representatives in Lansing, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, alongside Republican minority leader Matt Hall. (AP Photo/Isabella Volmert)
1 day ago

Internal divisions doom Michigan Democrats in their final days of legislative control

Read full article: Internal divisions doom Michigan Democrats in their final days of legislative control

Michigan Democrats are ending their final days in control of the state government bogged down with disunity and inaction.

Syrians continue to celebrate the ousting of Bashar al-Assad's government, at Umayyad Square, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
1 day ago

US drops $10M terrorism bounty offered for capture of Syrian rebel leader who ousted Assad

Read full article: US drops $10M terrorism bounty offered for capture of Syrian rebel leader who ousted Assad

The Biden administration says it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of President Bashar Assad.

FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks, accompanied by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, from left, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Riverside Park, in Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
2 days ago

Democratic governors hammered Trump before the election. Now they're hoping to work with him

Read full article: Democratic governors hammered Trump before the election. Now they're hoping to work with him

A handful of prominent Democratic governors are quickly adjusting their approach to President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January.

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2017, file photo people make their way to RFK Stadium in Washington before an MLS soccer match between D.C. United and Toronto FC. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
2 days ago

RFK Stadium site provision removed from federal spending bill, a blow to the Commanders and NFL

Read full article: RFK Stadium site provision removed from federal spending bill, a blow to the Commanders and NFL

A provision to transfer the land that is the site of the old RFK Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia is no longer included in Congress’ short-term spending bill that lawmakers are racing to pass before a government shutdown.

Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
1 day ago

Pentagon warns that a government shutdown will cost troops their pay over the holidays

Read full article: Pentagon warns that a government shutdown will cost troops their pay over the holidays

The Pentagon is warning that Republicans’ decision to abandon a congressional spending plan will cost more than 2 million troops their paychecks over the holidays unless some agreement is reached before Friday’s deadline to prevent a government shutdown.

FILE - The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022. A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
1 day ago

Chinese national charged with acting as Beijing's agent in local California election

Read full article: Chinese national charged with acting as Beijing's agent in local California election

A Chinese national has been charged with acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed local California politician.

FILESpeaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions from reporters after presenting his final version of an interim pending bill to his caucus, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump has now abruptly rejected the bipartisan plan to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown. Instead, he's telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate days before a deadline when federal funding runs out. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
2 days ago

What to know about the debt ceiling debate as a government shutdown looms in Washington

Read full article: What to know about the debt ceiling debate as a government shutdown looms in Washington

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing the possibility of a federal government shutdown to the brink in Washington.

From left, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Wizards NBA basketball team and Washington Capitals NHL hockey team, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Washington DC Councilmember Brooke Pinto, sledgehammer through a printed piece of drywall during a ceremonial first swing of demolition, at an event announcing a new Capital One Arena Gallery Place Atrium, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
2 days ago

DC leaders, NBA commissioner celebrate the start of an $800M downtown arena renovation

Read full article: DC leaders, NBA commissioner celebrate the start of an $800M downtown arena renovation

Washington Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and other area leaders celebrated the start of an $800 million downtown arena renovation Thursday.