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Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell remained in the hospital Thursday and was being treated for a concussion following a fall at a Was...

Getty Images/Richard Sharrocks(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- The Senate on Wednesday voted by a lopsided margin to halt much debated changes to Washington, D.C.'s, century-old criminal code, a move supported b...

Getty Images/Virojt Changyencham(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- During their first hearing investigating the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee ...

Getty Images/Bo Zaunders(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- As the Biden administration prepares for the possible end of the immigration restriction known as Title 42 -- which could lead to an increase of people at...

Getty Images/ANDREY DENISYUK(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- First lady Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday hosted the 17th annual International Women of Courage Awards -- and for the f...

Getty Images/Maskot(ARKANSAS) -- In a major legislative victory for Arkansas' new governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday signed the LEARNS Act into law, making the state the latest to adopt wha...

Getty Images/Tang Ming Tung(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Intelligence chiefs from across the U.S. government faced a grilling on Wednesday from members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the origins of C...

Michael Godek/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday they are planning a visit with some defendants who are being held in connection with the Jan. 6 at...

Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- On the heels of a federal agency's new assessment that COVID-19 "mostly likely" emerged from a lab leak rather than natural human exposure, a s...

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Intelligence chiefs from across the U.S. government face a grilling Wednesday from members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, with China ...