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Over the past two years, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) have held an outsize influence in the 50-50 Senate as Democrats have needed both their votes to advance their agenda.

Congress is set to hold hearings Tuesday and Wednesday on the dramatic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

Mississippi State University head football coach Mike Leach has died at the age of 61, according to his family.

Sam Brinton, a former nuclear waste official at the Department of Energy, no longer works at the department following a mounting slew of scandals over two alleged airport luggage stealing snafus.

EXCLUSIVE — Republican members of Congress are pressing President Joe Biden's State Department for answers after the Washington Examiner revealed the agency handed taxpayer dollars to a Colombian LGBT nonprofit group that engages in prostitution advocacy.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) claimed that the House of Representatives needs a stronger Republican leader than Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in a Washington Examiner op-ed published Tuesday in his latest bid for speaker of the House.

President Joe Biden may get an early test of bipartisan deal-making skills as Congress debates bringing back an expanded child tax credit during the lame-duck session.

Blue states are pursuing new gun control measures in the wake of a Supreme Court decision this year that upended the way courts may look at gun laws in the future.

Officials in the Biden administration met with the family of Paul Whelan, a Marine who is still in Russian custody, amid renewed calls to bring Whelan home, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried will not testify in front of a House committee on Tuesday after he was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday, according to the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee.