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  • Kevin McCarthyPolitics

    McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to avert government shutdown fails

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Dianne FeinsteinPolitics

    Dianne Feinstein, oldest sitting senator, elected in 1992’s ‘Year of the Woman,’ dies at 90

    By MIchael R. Blood, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others
  • Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., emerges from a closed-door Republican strategy session to talk to reporters about updates on funding the government and averting a shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    House Speaker McCarthy is as far as ever from bill to avert a federal shutdown, but the Senate is wrapping up its bipartisan solution

    By Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, and others
  • Sunrise hits the U.S. Capitol dome on September 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress is facing a partial federal government shutdown at midnight if the House and Senate can not pass an extension of the current budget. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    What a government shutdown would mean for Medicare beneficiaries

    By Erin Prater, Stephen Groves, and others
  • FILE – Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    Congress moves into crisis mode with a government shutdown just days away

    By Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, and others
  • Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks from the chamber to his office just after House Republicans failed to advance their own defense bill for second time in a week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    Government shutdown risk spikes after Congressional Republicans leave town for weekend amid hard-right revolt

    By Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, and others
  • Nancy PelosiPolitics

    83-year-old Nancy Pelosi announces she will pursue reelection in 2024

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 26: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans U.S. Capitol 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. McConnell froze and stopped talking at the microphone and was escorted back to his office. He later returned to the news conference and answered questions. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Politics

    ‘No evidence’ that Sen. Mitch McConnell’s public freeze ups are caused by strokes or seizures, Capitol doctor says

    By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump White House vets have far-reaching plans to dismantle federal government: ‘We have a democracy that is at risk of suicide’

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Lovette JacobsPolitics

    Economists are starting to realize that Joe Biden’s spending is once-in-a-generation stuff: ‘We spent decades underinvesting’

    By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Politics

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims he’s not antisemitic or racist as he stands by COVID conspiracy theory about racial infection rates

    By Lisa Mascaro, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after a hectic series of amendment votes and final passage on the big debt ceiling and budget cuts package, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2023. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law before the fast-approaching default deadline. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    Senate passes Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal with just days to spare before U.S. hits default date

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks to the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. as the House moves toward passage of the debt limit bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    The Senate is racing to meet the looming debt ceiling deadline before a catastrophic default as they vow to ‘keep working until the job is done’

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of R-Calif., speaks as House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R.La., left, and Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., listen at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    The Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal that no one liked sails through the House, leaving the Senate as the final hurdle

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., left, and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speak with reporters as member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus talk about the debt limit deal, during a news conference, Tuesday, May 30, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Politics

    Biden and House Speaker McCarthy scramble for votes as debt ceiling deal comes down to the wire

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others