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  • Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks from the chamber just after the Republican majority in the House narrowly passed a sweeping debt ceiling package as they try to push President Joe Biden into negotiations on federal spending, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    House Republicans narrowly pass debt ceiling bill Democrats call a ‘ransom note’, in bid to force Biden to cut spending to avoid default

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined at far left by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., holds an event to mark 100 days of the Republican majority in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 17, 2023. In a speech Monday at the New York Stock Exchange, the Republican leader accused President Joe Biden of refusing to engage in budget-cutting negotiations to prevent a debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    Biden slams House Speaker McCarthy’s debt plan as ‘huge cuts to important programs’ used by millions of Americans

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Freedom CaucusPolitics

    Republicans largely shrug off warnings on debt ceiling as they smell blood, saying Biden’s ‘poll numbers are in the tank and they’re going to keep going down’

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined at right by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Education Committee, talks to reporters after the House narrowly passed the “Parents’ Bill of Rights Act,” at the Capitol in Washington, March 24, 2023. McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold dire ramifications for the entire nation.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    House Speaker McCarthy demands that Biden negotiate on debt ceiling—but refuses to present his own budget proposals

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on improving rail safety in response to the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)Finance

    ‘You must answer for the bank’s downfall’: Senators demand testimony from CEOs of failed Signature and Silicon Valley Bank

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • Elizabeth WarrenFinance

    The SVB blame game is infecting Capitol Hill: Democrats and Republicans are pointing the finger at each other

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. The Ohio attorney general said Tuesday, March 14, that the state filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)Tech

    Elon Musk’s new Twitter verification system helped pro-Kremlin voices spread misleading claims after the Ohio train disaster

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    Biden’s chips incentives attacked as ‘woke’ by Republican senators

    By Josh Boak, Kevin Freking, and others
  • UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 2: Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is seen after the House voted to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, February 2, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Politics

    Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ouster from House committee for alleged anti-Israel comments is called ‘racist gaslighting’ by her supporters

    By Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro, and others
  • Ilhan OmarPolitics

    America may soon lose a Muslim, African-born lawmaker from its Foreign Affairs Committee: Ilhan Omar

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Adam SchiffPolitics

    Speaker Kevin McCarthy vows to purge Trump foes Schiff and Swalwell from intelligence committee as they decry ‘political vengeance’

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • Lauren BoebertPolitics

    ‘This is actually, a really beautiful thing,’ Lauren Boebert says of the worst trainwreck electing a speaker of the House in 100 years

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • Kevin McCarthyPolitics

    Kevin McCarthy fails in 4th and 5th speaker votes as Republican chaos in Congress shows no sign of ending

    By Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, and others
  • Kevin McCarthyPolitics

    Kevin McCarthy continues quest to overturn historic defeat for speaker’s seat—and says he has Trump’s support

    By Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, and others
  • US House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, speaks during his weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    House Republicans adjourn for the day in chaos after failing to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker in a historic defeat

    By Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, and others