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President Biden marked the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack by awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to 14 people....Read More

The Republican divisions posing problems for Representative Kevin McCarthy have been playing out not only on the House floor but also in his hometown, a red area of blue California....Read More

Follow live to see how each representative voted for House speaker on each ballot....Read More

The Justice Department’s investigation of the Capitol attack, already the largest it has ever conducted, has resulted in 900 arrests, with the potential for scores or hundreds more to come....Read More

Documents obtained through a lawsuit reveal how biases led to the deadly August 2021 blunder, and that officials made misleading statements concealing their assessment of civilian casualties....Read More

The Republican holdouts are showing that party leaders’ usual methods of arm-twisting no longer work. “It’s not about policies, it’s about the fight,” said one former operative....Read More

The G.O.P. leader hoped a proposed agreement would sway a critical mass of defectors to support him. But no votes had yet moved, and it was unclear if he could pick up enough converts....Read More

Until the House chooses a speaker, it is legally unable to do anything else. As long as it is in session, it has to vote for a speaker. If the vote fails, it has to vote...

President Biden, who is under pressure to confront a surge in migration at the border, said he would visit El Paso on Sunday....Read More

The Presidential Citizens Medal will honor those who resisted efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including law enforcement officers and Rusty Bowers, the former House speaker in Arizona....Read More