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  • 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
  • Kevin McCarthyPolitics

    Kevin McCarthy becomes first speaker candidate in 100 years to lose a vote from his own party

    By Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 20: Committee chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) (L) and ranking member Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) attend a business meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill on December 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. The committee is meeting to discuss former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and whether to release the information to the public. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Politics

    Trump’s tax returns, a potential political powder keg, could be released by Congress before GOP gains control of the House

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr ZelenskyyPolitics

    ‘It’s an honor to be by your side’: President Biden welcomes Zelenskyy and pledges to support Ukraine against Russia’s ‘brutal assault’

    By Zeke Miller, Lisa Mascaro, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 17: U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivers remarks from the House Chambers of the U.S. Capitol Building on November 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. Pelosi spoke on the future of her leadership plans in the House of Representatives and said she will not seek a leadership role in the upcoming Congress.Politics

    Nancy Pelosi to end her nearly two decade reign as party leader after Democrats lose the House

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • Nancy PelosiPolitics

    ‘I was very scared’: Nancy Pelosi breaks her silence after her husband was attacked by a man with a hammer in their home

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • Nancy Pelosi and Paul PelosiPolitics

    Police say man broke into Nancy Pelosi’s house because he wanted to ‘break her kneecaps’

    By Lisa Mascaro, Stefanie Dazio, and others
  • Nancy Pelosi homePolitics

    The hammer-wielding intruder in Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home was carrying zip ties, source says

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on his way to his Rehoboth Beach, Del., home after his most recent COVID-19 isolation, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Politics

    Senate Democrats approve big Biden deal; House, poised to deliver, will vote next: ‘It’s been a long, tough, and winding road, but at last, at last we have arrived’

    By Alan Fram, Lisa Mascaro, and others
  • FILE – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters following a closed-door policy lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, June 14, 2022. McConnell set the strategy to confirm conservative judges, and transform the federal judiciary in motion, engineering the Supreme Court’s makeover by blocking President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland and changing the Senate’s rules to easily confirm Trump’s picks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    As Senate-confirmed justices end Roe, how will voters react? ‘The rights of women and all Americans are on the ballot this November’

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • Roe v. WadePolitics

    Senate vote to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law expected to fall short

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson answers a question by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as she testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2022. Jackson has had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics, something familiar to many Black women. The Harvard-educated Jackson is making history, the first Black woman nominated in the court’s 233 years. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Politics

    Black women feel sting of ‘traumatizing’ Jackson hearings

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden

    Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’ for invasion of Ukraine

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to U.S. Congress virtuallyInternational

    ‘We need you right now’: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on Congress to do more in war against Russia

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden delivers speechPolitics

    Biden declares ‘God’s truth’ in speech marking anniversary of Capitol insurrection

    By Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro, and others