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China has threatened “resolute countermeasures" over a planned meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming transit visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy China claims as its own territory

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WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Republicans accused Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday of having lost control of the southwest border and suggested he apologize to families who lost loved ones to fentanyl poisoning.

Lesley Barrass, 61, went missing after he left the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Monday evening

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are demanding to know how a shortage of paper ballots in Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County on Election Day 2022 affected thousands of voters.

WASHINGTON — The shooting at a private school in Nashville has reignited a debate in Congress over American gun violence, but there’s still no clear line for lawmakers to pass further legislation on the issue.

WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday wrote to President Joe Biden asking him to set a date for their next negotiating meeting on the debt limit by the end of the week.

Ciudad Juarez blaze that killed at least 38 migrants comes amid increasingly restrictive policies at US-Mexico border.

A U.S. Senate staffer remained hospitalized Tuesday after police say he was attacked leaving a restaurant in Washington this weekend by a man who had been released from federal prison a day earlier