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Why Washington is crazy for Chinese balloons and UFOs
For days, Congress has been gripped by balloon fever, with symptoms including hot takes, gaseous emissions and alien hallucinations.
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For days, Congress has been gripped by balloon fever, with symptoms including hot takes, gaseous emissions and alien hallucinations.
As the fight over transgender health care heats up, conservatives are drawing from the same playbook they used to fight access to abortion.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott weighs a 2024 presidential bid after avoiding most culture war themes to focus on economic empowerment.
Texas filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to wipe out the $1.7 trillion fiscal 2023 spending package over former House rules for proxy voting.
Historian Margaret O’Mara discusses how Silicon Valley has reinvented itself for nearly a century, and the forces shaping it now.
It’s something of a mantra around the Political Theater podcast crew: Politics never sleeps. The 2024 election season has been taking shape for a while now. Candidates are starting to announce they are running, people are retiring and strategists are test-driving issues they hope will click with voters. Still. It is early. And there is […]
Sen. Joe Manchin has a $9 million campaign account but could face heat for raising less than 2 percent in his home state of West Virginia.
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s office said the Pennsylvania Democrat was hospitalized Wednesday night for treatment of depression.
The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.
Congress is seeking legislative fixes to the scourge of military hunger, which is a persistent problem for the Pentagon.
From child labor to Jim Crow, states are reaching back to a time when inequality was the point. Those weren’t exactly the good old days.
President Biden pledged Thursday to develop new parameters for the government's response to unidentified aerial objects.
Some of the people being mentioned as potential GOP presidential candidates have little real chance of being nominated.
The administration may soon allow a new oil and gas drilling project in Alaska, even as it aims to halve U.S. carbon emissions by 2030.
Senators express concerns about expulsion policy and forthcoming proposal to limit asylum eligibility for certain migrants.
The federal government could run out of cash to pay all its bills sometime between July and September unless the debt limit is lifted.
Rep. Mary Peltola took over Alaska’s at-large congressional seat with promises of bipartisanship that will require precise needle threading.
Members of Virginia’s congressional delegation gathered to drive home their pitch for relocating the FBI headquarters to their state.
A spectator videos Republican Nikki Haley’s announcement in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday declaring her candidacy for president in 2024.
Calling themselves “pragmatic conservatives,” the 70-member Republican Main Street Caucus hopes to influence policy coming out of the House.