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Byline: Robyn Dixon, David M. Herszenhorn, Catherine Belton RIGA, Latvia - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the defiant anti-corruption crusader and democracy champion who was President Vladimir Putinâs despised nemesis, [...]

CHICAGO -- Senator Mark S. Kirk of Illinois, among the nation's most imperiled Republican incumbents, sat before a small audience in the basement of a public library here recently, intent [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress limped out of town Thursday for a seven-week recess, leaving behind a trail of partisan fights, a failed bill to help fight the Zika virus, a stalemate [...]

WASHINGTON -- After years of warfare over fiscal cliffs, government shutdowns and the debt ceiling, congressional Republicans pledged in January to work diligently through the dozen regular spending bills needed [...]

WASHINGTON -- Former Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, is expected to announce that he will run to reclaim the job he gave up in 2010, a move that could [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders on Friday voiced dismay and outrage over the killings of police officers in Dallas and called on the American people to unify, and members of the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, will testify before Congress on Thursday to explain his decision to recommend no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, but the appearance will [...]

WASHINGTON -- The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, will go before Congress on Thursday to explain his decision to recommend no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, a House committee chairman [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats blocked a federal spending bill on Tuesday that would have provided $1.1 billion to fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus, saying Republicans had [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a federal spending bill that would have provided $1.1 billion to fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus, saying Republicans had sabotaged the legislation with [...]

WASHINGTON -- Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats on Monday moved to pre-empt the findings of a two-year Republican-led investigation into the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, by issuing [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Senator Angus King, independent of Maine, was crowing a bit on the chamber floor on Thursday when he began reading a staff member's email [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Angus King, independent of Maine, was crowing a bit on the chamber floor Thursday when he began reading a staff member's email about a planning and development [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN WASHINGTON -- A Democratic protest demanding votes on gun-control legislation led to pandemonium in the House chamber that did not end until early [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted on Thursday to keep a proposal to block gun sales to terrorism suspects alive, but placed it in a procedural limbo that made its adoption [...]

WASHINGTON -- The tactics were more dramatic, a 25-hour siege by House Democrats. The words were more urgent, as Senators debated a compromise offered by a Republican. But by day's [...]

WASHINGTON -- Emergency financing to fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus appeared likely to be delayed until after Congress returns from its July 4th recess, as Democrats on Wednesday sharply criticized [...]

WASHINGTON -- A day after he was convicted by a federal jury on bribery, money laundering, racketeering, fraud and other charges, Representative Chaka Fattah, Democrat of Pennsylvania, announced his resignation [...]

WASHINGTON -- A Democratic sit-in on the House floor demanding votes on gun-control legislation led to a remarkable scene of pandemonium and a late-night confrontation on Wednesday when Speaker Paul [...]

WASHINGTON -- Signaling a possible breakthrough in the long stalemate in Congress over tightening the nation's gun laws, a bipartisan group of senators called on Tuesday for banning gun sales [...]

WASHINGTON -- With congressional leaders once again at a stalemate over how to respond to a mass shooting, the Senate's most moderate Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, is developing a [...]

Byline: ASHLEY PARKER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Donald J. Trump has said that people on the terror watch list should be barred from buying firearms, putting himself in [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- This is no longer Mr. Smith's Washington, or even Strom Thurmond's. Most filibusters in the United States Senate these days do not involve any [...]

WASHINGTON -- This is no longer Mr. Smith's Washington, or even Strom Thurmond's. Most filibusters in the United States Senate these days do not involve any talking at all. The [...]

Byline: ASHLEY PARKER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Donald J. Trump seemed to modulate his position on Second Amendment protections on Wednesday, saying in a Twitter message that he [...]

WASHINGTON -- Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that people on the terror watch list should be barred from buying firearms, putting himself in the center of a gun-control debate in [...]

WASHINGTON -- An antipoverty agenda that Speaker Paul D. Ryan and House Republicans rolled out last week is based on a bedrock premise: The federal government has spent trillions of [...]

WASHINGTON -- A fierce debate over tougher gun control laws, ignited by the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., began in the Capitol corridors on Tuesday afternoon as the Senate moved [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Orlando, Fla., massacre reignited on Monday the debate over whether Americans like Omar Mateen who have appeared on the government's terrorist watch lists, or who were otherwise [...]

Byline: JENNIFER STEINHAUER, JONATHAN MARTIN and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation's highest-ranking Republican, on Tuesday called Donald J. Trump's remarks about a Latino judge [...]

WASHINGTON -- With public health officials warning of a fast-spreading emergency, House and Senate negotiators will work to reconcile legislation aimed at providing up to $1.1 billion to combat the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Thursday will roll out a national security agenda as part of his effort to shape the Republican Party platform ahead of the presumed [...]

WASHINGTON -- Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation's highest-ranking Republican, on Tuesday called Donald J. Trump's remarks about a Latino judge ''racist,'' an extraordinary indictment that generated a fresh wave [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, introduced legislation on Wednesday that would require major presidential candidates to publicly disclose their three most recent personal income tax returns, a [...]

WASHINGTON -- The feud on Capitol Hill over responding to the rapidly spreading Zika virus would seem to be largely a fight over how much money is needed to fight [...]

WASHINGTON -- When the House Judiciary Committee convenes on Tuesday to consider the alleged misdeeds of the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, John Koskinen, it will contemplate action that has not [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday approved an $81.6 billion spending measure for veterans affairs and military construction programs after hours of contentious floor debate that at times focused on [...]

The House on Wednesday approved legislation that provides $622.1 million to combat the mosquito-borne Zika virus but takes the money from existing programs including initiatives to fight the Ebola virus. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Gen. Carter F. Ham, who led the United States Africa Command on the night of the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, has been interviewed [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted on Tuesday to advance $1.1 billion in emergency financing to combat the mosquito-borne Zika virus -- less than the $1.9 billion requested by the White [...]

The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that he believed the role of women in the military had expanded so broadly in recent years that they should be [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Representative Xavier Becerra, Democrat of California, had loaded the question for precise effect. ''How many people here can say they are immigrants, the child of immigrants or [...]

WASHINGTON -- Potentially giving congressional Republicans new ammunition in their crusade against the Internal Revenue Service, the agency on Thursday said that annual unpaid taxes had increased to nearly half [...]

WASHINGTON -- The first appropriations bill taken up this year by the Senate -- in what was supposed to a be a new spirit of bipartisan cooperation on financing the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate negotiators on Tuesday moved closer to an agreement to provide at least $1.1 billion in emergency financing to combat the rapidly spreading Zika virus, which public health [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Mitch McConnell has a ready comeback for Democrats who keep chanting ''do your job'' in hopes of pressuring Republicans to consider President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. It [...]

WASHINGTON -- Some 400,000 retirees who worked in the trucking, parcel delivery and grocery supply industries face drastic pension cuts on July 1 as a result of a little-noticed measure [...]