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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 [...]

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 -- Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, insisted on Wednesday that Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, would not get a confirmation vote -- [...]

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on Thursday unleashed a furious assault on Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican and Judiciary Committee chairman who has become the face of his party's refusal [...]

BALTIMORE -- Republican congressional leaders said Friday that they were moving aggressively to draw up a campaign platform for 2016 so that the party would be positioned to coalesce swiftly [...]

WASHINGTON -- Republican and Democratic negotiators in the House clinched a deal late Tuesday on a $1.1 trillion spending bill and a huge package of tax breaks. Legislative drafters, racing [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators clinched a deal on Tuesday for a five-year, roughly $300 billion transportation bill that would inject badly needed investments into the nation's deteriorated highways and other [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Vicky Hartzler, Republican of Missouri, wanted an amendment that would prohibit the use of federal highway money for ''landscaping and beautification.'' ''We should spend our federal highway [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House on Tuesday debated and voted on dozens of amendments to an important highway bill as Paul D. Ryan sought to use his first week as speaker [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Kevin McCarthy of California abruptly withdrew on Thursday from the race to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner, blindsiding his House Republican colleagues and throwing their already tumultuous [...]

WASHINGTON -- When John A. Boehner announced his retirement on Friday, speculation about who would succeed him as speaker immediately centered on the No. 2 House Republican: Kevin McCarthy, a [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, under increasing pressure to demonstrate that the United States is joining European nations in the effort to resettle Syrian refugees, has told his administration to take [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MOSCOW -- President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine on Monday denounced calls for 'federalization' of the country, which Moscow has endorsed as a way of granting [...]

MOSCOW -- In an unusually pointed threat, the Russian ambassador in Copenhagen warned that Danish ships would become targets of Russia's nuclear arsenal if the Scandinavian country joins NATO's missile [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMOSCOW -- The International Monetary Fund agreed on Thursday to throw a new $17.5 billion lifeline to Ukraine, hoping to stabilize the country as it teeters on the edge [...]

MOSCOW -- A decision by Facebook to block a page used to rally Russian opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin has engulfed the world's largest social networking site in political [...]

OTTAWA -- A deal struck on Thursday to restart Russian natural gas supplies to Ukraine will keep homes heated this winter, but it does not fully settle a fierce, long-running [...]

MOSCOW -- Setting the stage for renewed tensions with the West, the Russian government said on Tuesday that it would recognize the results of coming elections in the separatist-controlled areas [...]

MOSCOW -- The long-awaited inaugural launch of a new Russian space rocket, the Angara, was abruptly canceled on Friday just minutes before takeoff, the Russian space agency Roscosmos reported. The [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MOSCOW -- President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine proposed on Wednesday a unilateral cease-fire by government forces as part of a 14-point peace plan to end [...]

DONETSK, Ukraine -- With a critical presidential election looming on Sunday, rifts are appearing among the patchwork of separatist groups that have seized control of public buildings in numerous cities [...]

KIEV, Ukraine -- Russia and the West maneuvered on Tuesday ahead of a seemingly inevitable clash over Ukraine's plan to hold a presidential election on May 25 that Western powers [...]

SEVASTOPOL, Crimea -- Bowing to the reality of the Russian military occupation of Crimea a day after Russia announced it was annexing the disputed peninsula, the Ukrainian government said on [...]

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- The pro-Russian regional Parliament in Crimea voted behind closed doors on Thursday to secede from Ukraine and become part of Russia -- an aspirational, even quixotic, gesture [...]

SOCHI, Russia -- A dog shelter backed by a Russian billionaire is engaged in a frantic last-ditch effort to save hundreds of strays facing a death sentence before the Winter [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMOSCOW -- He is credited with commanding a war to crush separatism in Chechnya, approving a full-scale attack on Georgia over a minor border dispute and complaining when NATO [...]

MOSCOW -- In an interview published on Wednesday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said it seemed ''completely ridiculous'' for the government of President Bashar al-Assad to have used chemical [...]

MOSCOW -- The Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said on Monday that the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ready to engage in peace negotiations without preconditions [...]

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Faced with meager growth worldwide and a worrisome ebbing of Russia's own oil and gas revenues, President Vladimir V. Putin announced an ambitious and risky economic [...]

Supporters of wrestling have gathered forces in St. Petersburg, Russia, where they will make a major push on Wednesday to preserve their sport as an Olympic event at the 2020 [...]

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Scrambling to placate international lenders, Cyprus late Wednesday proposed to nationalize pension funds from state-run companies and conduct an emergency bond sale to help raise the €5.8 [...]

MOSCOW -- The United States has effectively canceled the final phase of a Europe-based missile defense system that was fiercely opposed by Russia and cited repeatedly by the Kremlin as [...]

SOCHI, Russia -- A year before the world's top ski racers are due to rocket down the Rosa Khutor alpine track here in the Caucasus Mountains, a sharp debate is [...]

SOCHI, Russia -- Cranes, dump trucks and more than 70,000 construction workers are now toiling 24 hours a day to transform this once sleepy Black Sea resort into its new [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin has ordered a major change in the rules for parliamentary elections, a move that could help solidify his power and influence toward the [...]

MOSCOW -- It began as an urgent effort to stave off political chaos, build basic institutions, and even prevent starvation in the anxiety-ridden aftermath of the fall of the Soviet [...]

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly, signed an accord on Saturday with the government of Japan to move forward with plans for the construction of a $13 billion [...]

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged Saturday that the United States would soon lift cold-war-era trade sanctions on Russia, but she did not address human rights [...]

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin said Friday that Russia would be willing to negotiate new reductions in nuclear arms with the United States but that Washington must first change [...]

MOSCOW -- A charity founded by Russian Jewish billionaires is establishing a $1 million annual award for excellence in virtually any field, to honor those people who attribute their success [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Intent on making a flawless debut on the world stage as the host of this year's Eurovision Song Contest finals, the government of Azerbaijan left nothing to [...]

MOSCOW -- Russian voters overwhelmingly granted Vladimir V. Putin a six-year term as president on Sunday, a widely expected outcome that set the stage for a far more suspenseful post-election [...]

MOSCOW -- Free after a 15-day prison term, the opposition blogger Aleksei Navalny moved quickly on Wednesday to use his growing celebrity to promote a huge antigovernment protest, exhorting ''people [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED WASHINGTON -- After clamoring loudly about their plans to curtail federal spending, House Republicans announced Thursday that they would cut $32 billion for the remainder of the fiscal [...]

WASHINGTON -- A leader of the Senate Democrats and one of the Senate's most conservative Republicans will sit together at the State of the Union speech next week in a [...]

The House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, on Tuesday officially invited President Obama to deliver a State of the Union address on Jan. 25. The invitation, of course, is [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders on Thursday evening formally unveiled the huge tax cut package worked out between the White House and Republicans and immediately began debating it, while House Democrats [...]