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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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- After a brief trading of angry recriminations, Senate Republicans and Democrats voted Monday to advance a temporary spending measure that would avert a shutdown of the federal government [...]

WASHINGTON -- Far from quelling dissent in the Republican ranks, the resignation of Speaker John A. Boehner is intensifying the divide that has emboldened hard-right lawmakers and insurgent presidential candidates, [...]

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 -- After his emotive address to Congress, Pope Francis headed to the West Front of the Capitol and delivered a greeting that flowed easily from his lips and could [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday took the first steps to avert a government shutdown by scheduling a vote on a temporary spending measure that would keep agencies functioning [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans vented their rage against Planned Parenthood on Friday, voting to block all federal financing for the organization, which they accused of profiting from the sale of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans said on Thursday that they would take up legislation outlawing all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and the House voted to move forward with a [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked another vote on a resolution disapproving of the Iran nuclear deal, reprising the result of a vote last week. Senator Mitch McConnell of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown on Tuesday, with Republicans threatening to block a budget deal if it includes financing for Planned Parenthood, as President Obama prepared to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Following the playbook of their crusade against the Affordable Care Act, congressional Republicans on Friday showed no sign of letting up in their effort to pressure the White [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Confronted with a rank-and-file uprising, House Republican leaders on Wednesday abruptly shifted tactics in their battle against President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, splitting off from their Senate [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Four Democratic senators announced on Tuesday that they would back President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, apparently securing the White House enough votes so Mr. Obama will not [...]

At the top of the agenda for Congress this month is a resolution disapproving President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. Democrats have enough votes to sustain a presidential veto of [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- In late spring, with the war in Syria grinding into its fifth year amid an ever-deepening humanitarian catastrophe for millions of refugees, 14 United States senators wrote a [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, the senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee and a prominent Jewish voice in Congress, said on Friday that he would oppose the Iran [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Just before the Senate left town for its August break, a dozen or so undecided Democrats met in the Capitol with senior diplomats from Britain, China, France, Germany [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama all but clinched victory for his Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, as two Democratic senators threw crucial support behind the landmark accord. The announcements by the [...]

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia pushed back forcefully on Thursday against calls for an international tribunal to investigate the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern [...]

MOSCOW -- For a man often portrayed in the West as the swaggering bully leader of a renegade state, in need of containment and isolation, President Vladimir V. Putin has [...]

MOSCOW -- Kazakhstan said on Wednesday that it would expand a visa-free travel program to 19 countries and principalities for visitors staying up to 15 days, after the success of [...]

MOSCOW -- Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, lost no time in talking about the accord on Iran's nuclear program. He was on television minutes after the deal was [...]

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 [...]

MOSCOW -- A late-night barracks collapse killed 23 people and wounded at least 22 others in south-central Russia, as soldiers at a training center for airborne forces were crushed in [...]

MOSCOW -- A concrete military barracks partly collapsed on Sunday, killing at least two people at a training center in south-central Russia and trapping more than two dozen others in [...]

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called on Friday for an end to the use of punitive financial and economic sanctions around the world, saying they should be [...]

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 [...]

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 alone. It was not [...]

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 [...]

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 of a Malaysian jetliner [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama spoke with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday in their first direct contact in four months as the United States and Russia try to [...]

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 [...]

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 of crass anti-Russian bias [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- With the peace process stalled and violence escalating in Ukraine, a bipartisan coalition in Congress is defying President Obama and European allies by pressing the administration to provide [...]

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called on the United States and Europe on Saturday to pressure the Ukrainian government to comply with a cease-fire accord, saying that [...]

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 [...]

KIEV, Ukraine -- In what amounted to a multidimensional confidence-building campaign, President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine tried on Friday to rally international support for his country and to maintain [...]

MOSCOW -- Cheered on by a small crowd, masked men vandalized the offices of a human rights advocacy group in Grozny, the capital of the Russian region of Chechnya, on [...]

MOSCOW -- President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine on Saturday appointed the former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, as governor of the Odessa region, turning to a longtime nemesis of [...]

MOSCOW -- International monitors tracking cease-fire violations in eastern Ukraine reported Friday that they had encountered four people wearing military uniforms with Russian insignia in a town about 25 miles [...]

MOSCOW -- The wife of a Russian opposition activist who has been hospitalized in Moscow with a mysterious illness urged on Thursday that he be evacuated to a hospital in [...]

MOSCOW -- A prominent Russian political opposition activist, whose civic group this week released a film critical of an ally of President Vladimir V. Putin, has been hospitalized in Moscow [...]

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 [...]

MOSCOW -- The Ukrainian government said on Monday that it had captured two wounded Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine and would prosecute them on terrorism charges, prompting a spokesman for [...]