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A deal on US border policy is closer than it seems. Here’s how it is shaping up and what’s at stake
Amid grueling negotiations between senators and the White House, the contours of a bipartisan border security and immigration deal are beginning to take shape.
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Senate swiftly confirms top military brass, ending months-long campaign by GOP Sen. Tuberville
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Biden’s push for Ukraine aid stalls in Senate as negotiations over border restrictions drag on
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How the White House got involved in the border talks on Capitol Hill — with Ukraine aid at stake
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Senate border security talks grind on as Trump invokes Nazi-era ‘blood’ rhetoric against immigrants
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Latino Democrats shift from quiet concern to open opposition to Biden’s concessions in border talks
Prominent Democratic Latinos in Congress quietly raised concerns at first about negotiations between the Biden administration and a group of senators over border security and asylum restrictions.
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Federal appeals court refuses to reconsider ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map
A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its ruling setting a deadline for the Louisiana Legislature to enact a new congressional map.
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Virginia lawmaker with Parkinson’s helps lead the charge in creating panel to fight the illness
Members of the House have introduced a bill, likely the last of the year, they hope may one day stomp out Parkinson’s disease. The bill is named for Virginia Rep.
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Congress departs without a deal on Ukraine aid and border security, but Senate will work next week
Congress is departing Washington without a deal to pass wartime support for Ukraine. But Senate negotiators and the President Joe Biden’s administration are still racing to wrap up a border security compromise to unlock the stalemate before the end of the year.
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Big pay raise for troops in defense bill sent to Biden. Conservatives stymied on cultural issues
The House has passed a defense policy bill that authorizes the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades.
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The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends
The Kentucky congressman who’s leading House Republicans’ impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden has focused on the Biden family’s use of shell companies. Rep.
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Senate passes defense policy bill with 5.2% pay raise for troops, the biggest boost in decades
The Senate has passed a defense policy bill that authorizes the biggest pay bump for troops in more than two decades.
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Biden considers new border and asylum restrictions as he tries to reach Senate deal for Ukraine aid
Top Biden administration officials are trying to reach a last-minute deal for wartime aid for Ukraine by agreeing to Senate Republican demands to bolster U.S.
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House panel urges tougher trade rules for China, raising chance of more tariffs if Congress agrees
A special House committee focused on China is calling for altering the way the U.S. treats Chinese-made goods, possibly subjecting them to higher tariffs and risking increased economic tensions between the two economic superpowers.
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Biden and Congress are mulling big changes on immigration. What are they and what could they mean?
President Joe Biden is taking a more active role in Senate negotiations over changes to the immigration system that Republicans are demanding in exchange for providing money to Ukraine and Israel.
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New US aid for Ukraine by year-end seems increasingly out of reach as GOP ties it to border security
A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden.
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Kevin McCarthy endorses Trump for president and would consider serving in his Cabinet
Retiring Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the ousted House speaker, says he is endorsing Donald Trump for president.
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FTC opens inquiry of Chevron-Hess merger, marking second review this week of major oil industry deal
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Chevron’s acquisition of Hess oil company, the second inquiry the independent agency has opened this week of a major oil industry merger.
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The GOP’s slim House majority is getting even tighter with Kevin McCarthy’s retirement
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s margin for error in getting Republican priorities through the House is getting slimmer. The expulsion of Rep.
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House votes to censure Democratic Rep. Bowman for pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol office building
The House has voted to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman for triggering a fire alarm in a U.S. Capitol office building when the chamber was in session.
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Senators tackle gun violence anew while Feinstein’s ban on assault weapons fades into history
A new generation of senators is working on gun violence prevention legislation in the aftermath of mass shootings. The effort by Democratic Sens.
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House backs GOP bill to block EPA rule on tailpipe pollution; slams plan as electric-vehicle mandate
House Republicans have approved a bill to block strict new tailpipe pollution limits proposed by the Biden administration, calling the plan a back-door mandate for electric vehicles.
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Kevin McCarthy was booted as House speaker two months ago. Now he’s leaving Congress by year’s end
Two months ago, Kevin McCarthy was booted as House speaker. Now, the Republican congressman from California says he’s resigning and will leave Congress by year’s end.
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Federal Trade Commission is investigating ExxonMobil’s $60B deal to acquire a Texas oil company
Security filings show the Federal Trade Commission is investigating ExxonMobil’s $60 billion deal to acquire a Texas oil company, potentially one the largest energy industry mergers in two decades.
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Senate approves hundreds of military promotions after Sen. Tuberville ends blockade of nominees
The Senate in a single stroke has approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy.
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House Speaker Johnson is insisting on sweeping border security changes in a deal for Ukraine aid
House Speaker Mike Johnson tells fellow Republicans that sweeping changes to U.S. border policy will be their “hill to die on” in negotiations over President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion package for the wars in Ukraine and Israel and other security needs.
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Biden’s allies in Senate demand that Israel limit civilian deaths in Gaza as Congress debates US aid
Sen. Bernie Sanders and a robust group of Democratic senators say they’re done “asking nicely” for Israel to do more to reduce civilian casualties in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
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Louisiana granted extra time to draw new congressional map that complies with Voting Rights Act
Louisiana lawmakers now have until the end of January to draw and pass new congressional boundaries to replace the current map that a federal judge says dilutes the power of the state’s Black voters.
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McCarthy was ditched and Santos expelled. The House is making history, but not as the GOP envisioned
The House is making history this year. It’s just in ways that Republicans could hardly have envisioned when the party took control of the chamber.
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Rep. George Santos expelled from House. Here’s what’s next
The House has voted to expel Republican Rep. George Santos of New York following a blistering ethics report on his conduct that included converting campaign donations for his own use.
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House passes resolution to block Iran’s access to $6 billion from prisoner swap
The House has passed a measure that would permanently freeze the $6 billion recently transferred by the U.S. in a prisoner swap with Iran.
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Anthony Fauci will testify before Congress on COVID origins and the US pandemic response
Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci is expected to testify before Congress early next year as part of Republicans’ yearslong investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and the U.S. response to the disease.
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GOP Rep. George Santos refuses to resign and warns his expulsion from Congress would set a precedent
In his closing arguments for remaining a member of the House, a defiant Rep. George Santos is depicting himself as a victim of a smear campaign by some of his colleagues.
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Congress is eying immigration limits as GOP demands border changes in swap for Biden overseas aid
Republican demands to stop the flow of migrants at the Mexico-U.S. border have left Congress scrambling.
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Republicans won’t push colleagues to oppose Santos expulsion despite the House Speaker’s concerns
House Speaker Mike Johnson is expressing reservations about expelling Rep. George Santos from the chamber this week.
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