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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- It was a balance-of-power breakfast. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, played host to Judge Merrick [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MIAMI -- Representative Patrick Murphy, a two-term Democrat now running for United States Senate, looked exultant, maybe even a bit star-struck, as he greeted patrons and [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- If there were any doubt, Senator Harry Reid clearly has one last, good fight in him. Instead of cruising to retirement after securing a [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Senators on the Judiciary Committee clashed openly on Thursday over filling a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year, with Republicans insisting that they [...]

Byline: JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- From the White House to the Capitol to the campaign trail, the entire Democratic power structure has mobilized to break [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leaders have said that there will be no confirmation hearings, no vote, not even a courtesy meeting with President Obama's nominee to [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- The Senate will not confirm any Supreme Court nominee put forward by President Obama before the November election, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- After spending 444 days in captivity, and more than 30 years seeking restitution, the Americans taken hostage at the United States Embassy in Tehran [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and JOHN SCHWARTZ WASHINGTON -- In a flurry of year-end legislative activity, the Senate last week approved a bill to overhaul the United States' chemical safety [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Congress on Friday overwhelmingly gave final approval to a sweeping, year-end fiscal package that includes a $1.15 trillion spending measure as well as $620 [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON -- Republican and Democratic negotiators in the House have clinched a deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill and a huge package [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Congress reconvened on Monday with leaders in a rush to close out a $1.1 trillion spending plan, but Republicans and Democrats were on a [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and MICHAEL D. SHEAR WASHINGTON -- Seizing on the terrorist attacks in Paris, congressional Republicans on Tuesday demanded the suspension of a program to accept Syrian [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- The Senate approved a crucial bipartisan budget agreement early on Friday that would avert a government default and end nearly five years of pitched [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN WASHINGTON -- Paul D. Ryan, a son and grandson of Midwestern lawyers, ascended rapidly in American politics as a man with big plans: [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and JENNIFER STEINHAUER WASHINGTON -- Paul Davis Ryan, a son and grandson of Midwestern lawyers, rocketed to political stardom as a man with big plans: The [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, JENNIFER STEINHAUER and CARL HULSE WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Wednesday nominated Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin to be the 62nd speaker of the House, [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- After five years of bitter clashes, Republican congressional leaders and President Obama appeared to settle their last budget fight by reaching a tentative deal [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN A strong majority of anti-establishment conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have voted to support Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin for House [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN A strong majority of anti-establishment conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have voted to support Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin for speaker [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- For weeks, the hard-line conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have said what they want most in Congress is a say in how the [...]

Byline: JENNIFER STEINHAUER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Representative Kevin McCarthy of California abruptly withdrew from the race to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner, blindsiding his House Republican colleagues [...]

Byline: JENNIFER STEINHAUER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Representative Kevin McCarthy on Thursday abruptly took himself out of the race to succeed John A. Boehner as House speaker, leaving [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Representative Marlin Stutzman, a fourth-generation farmer from northeast Indiana, came to Washington on the Tea Party wave of 2010 intent on tackling his constituents' [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- After a brief trading of angry recriminations, Senate Republicans and Democrats voted to advance a temporary spending measure that would avert a shutdown of [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and JONATHAN MARTIN WASHINGTON -- Far from quelling dissent in the Republican ranks, the resignation of Speaker John A. Boehner is intensifying the divide that has [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and JONATHAN MARTIN WASHINGTON -- Far from quelling dissent in the Republican ranks, the resignation of Speaker John A. Boehner is intensifying the divide that has [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Three Democratic senators announced on Tuesday that they would back President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, bringing the total number of Senate supporters to [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, the senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee and one of the most prominent Jewish members of Congress, said on [...]

Byline: CARL HULSE and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Just before the Senate left town for its August break, a dozen or so undecided Democrats met in the Capitol with [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland on Wednesday came out in support of President Obama's Iran nuclear accord, the 34th Democrat in favor. Her announcement [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MOSCOW -- A late-night barracks collapse killed 23 people and wounded at least 19 others in south-central Russia, as soldiers at a training center for airborne [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN ERZURUM, Turkey -- As a teenager in St. Petersburg, Maksim Baidak hung out with neo-Nazis and right-wing nationalists, but the Russian security services mostly left him [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MOSCOW -- Pro-Russian separatist leaders in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk have blocked access to Dutch law enforcement officials pursuing an investigation into the downing [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MOSCOW -- Kremlin officials reacted furiously Monday to the European Union's extension of sanctions on Russia through January, calling the measure self-defeating and accusing the West [...]

Byline: JENNIFER STEINHAUER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- With the peace process stalled and violence escalating in Ukraine, a bipartisan coalition in Congress is defying President Obama and European [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN KIEV, Ukraine -- With the war against Russian-backed separatists that he vowed to end a year ago still simmering, President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine worked [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN KIEV, Ukraine -- The country is on the cliff of bankruptcy. A spate of politically motivated killings and mysterious suicides of former government officials has sown [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN KIEV, Ukraine -- The country is on the cliff of bankruptcy. A spate of politically motivated murders and mysterious suicides of former government officials has sown [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MOSCOW -- For Russia, victory came three days after Victory Day, in the form of Secretary of State John Kerry's visit last week to the Black [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MOSCOW -- For Russia, victory came three days after Victory Day, in the form of Secretary of State John Kerry's visit this past week to the [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN YEREVAN, Armenia -- Armenian officials and dignitaries gathered here Friday to recognize the 100th anniversary of what historians and a growing number of world leaders have [...]