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Congress

McConnell says fall led to hospitalization, breaking weeks of silence

  • Jul 13
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Preliminary findings in Sen. Lindsey Graham's death released

  • Jul 13
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Lindsey Graham's long, strange and consequential friendship with Trump

  • Jul 12

Lindsey Graham's death prompts special election

  • Jul 12

Graham draws tributes for Ukraine, trans-Atlantic ties, Israel support

  • Jul 12

Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after a 'brief and sudden illness'

  • Jul 12

Members of Congress meet at Independence Hall in Philadelphia

  • Jul 2

Tom Kean Jr. returns to Congress after long unexplained absence

  • Jun 30

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Trump signs bill funding DHS, ending record shutdown

  • Apr 30
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More photos from Jeffrey Epstein publicly released

  • Dec 19, 2025
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How federal funding cuts to public broadcasting could impact North Carolina

  • Jul 18, 2025
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NC lawmakers pass resolution in support of Congressional term limits

  • Dec 4, 2024
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'Rosie the Riveter' to be awarded Congressional Gold Medal

  • Apr 4, 2024
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North Carolina's new 2024 congressional map facing lawsuit

  • Dec 13, 2023
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Chicago area woman takes fight to Capitol Hill after losing both parents to cancer

  • Oct 20, 2023
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Bo Hines, who lost a close 2022 election in North Carolina, announces another Congress run

  • Nov 9, 2023

Latest Stories

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House passes $70B bill to fund immigration enforcement for 3 years, sending measure to Trump

A $1.8 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies who claim they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted proved politically toxic and was scrapped from the bill.

  • Jun 9
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Social Security retirement trust fund will run dry in 2032 unless Congress acts

Tens of millions of retirees and other Americans could see smaller monthly Social Security checks in six years if lawmakers don't act to shore up the program's finances, according to an annual report released Tuesday by Social Security's trustees.

  • Jun 9
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Trump issues pardon to former Republican Indiana congressman convicted of insider trading

President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.

  • Jun 7
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Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections

The Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections, blocking a lower court ruling that the map intentionally discriminates against Black people.

  • Jun 3
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Supreme Court rejects Virginia's bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats

The Supreme Court has rejected Virginia's bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives.

  • May 16