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Byline: Amber Phillips, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux In his last days in office, President Joe Biden is issuing expansive clemency orders. Just this month, he's pardoned his own son and commuted the [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips President-elect Donald Trump said he'll end the constitutional right for anyone born in the United States to have citizenship - a concept known as birthright citizenship. But [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips South Korea's president briefly declared martial law Tuesday, suspending civil rights, barricading parliament with troops, and putting media under government control. Lawmakers moved to quickly override it, [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips President Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter is controversial. Some legal experts say it's an invitation for President-elect Donald Trump to go after his political enemies [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips If there's a Thanksgiving when politics could come up, it's probably this one. The United States just had an emotional presidential election, and the country remains fiercely [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips President-elect Donald Trump has been nominating loyalists to serve in his Cabinet, and nowhere is that more obvious than in his pick for attorney general: former representative [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States, returning to the White House after he was impeached twice and convicted of state crimes. He [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager, Justine McDaniel, Amber Phillips Vice President Kamala Harris plans to address supporters at 4 p.m. Wednesday after calling President-elect Donald Trump to concede the election to him, [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips While president-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly disavowed it, it's very likely that at least some of Project 2025 will come to fruition in his second administration. Project [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips The first and only vice-presidential debate is Tuesday. Republican nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) and Democratic nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off in person, and [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips When Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump share the debate stage Tuesday night, voters will have their first and possibly only chance to view [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake, Amber Phillips - - - The big moment The two-week sprint to become the new Democratic vice-presidential pick concluded Tuesday with a winner few had predicted at [...]

Byline: Patrick Svitek, Amber Phillips, Joshua Partlow, Brady Dennis, Jeff Stein Vice President Harris, whom Democrats have quickly endorsed to replace President Biden in this year's election, has been a [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips If Donald Trump struggled somewhat in his first administration to move the country dramatically to the right, he'll be ready to go in a second term. That's [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips President Biden and former president Donald Trump will face off Thursday in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, offering a rare chance for viewers [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Itâs the biggest day of the year for presidential primaries and caucuses, and theyâre on track to be decisive for Donald Trump. Super Tuesday is widely expected [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Fani T. Willis, the Atlanta-area district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump for alleged election interference, has acknowledged having a âpersonal relationshipâ with the outside lawyer she appointed to [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Donald Trump is on track to make this the shortest primary season in recent presidential history. Just two states have voted so far. But he has won [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips New Hampshire is holding the first-in-the-nation primary elections on Tuesday, for both Democrats and Republicans. But the Democratic primary wonât have President Biden on the ballot. Voters [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips There's one more Republican presidential debate before Monday's Iowa caucuses. But only two candidates will be onstage Wednesday in Iowa - former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips On. Monday, Iowa Republicans will be the first Americans to vote for a presidential nominee. They'll be doing it with a caucus, which is a time-consuming, controversial [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips and Nick Mourtoupalas House Republicans have continued to pursue an impeachment inquiry against President Biden, even though their year-long investigation hasn't turned up any direct evidence that [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips If you're going to argue about politics this Thanksgiving and want to sound like you know what you're talking about, here's a guide on how to do [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips If House Republicans continue to struggle to elect a speaker, they have two options many consider less palatable: No. 1: Work with Democrats to elect a consensus [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips - - - Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as the House minority leader. That position is held by [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips With the government running out of money again in a little over a month, the House has instead ousted the speaker for the first time in the [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips House Republicans have opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden but some aren't sure what they're looking for. And as they begin impeachment hearings, it's not [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany, Amy B Wang and Amber Phillips WASHINGTON - House Republicans held their first hearing Thursday as part of an inquiry into whether to impeach President Biden, laying [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips At the center of investigations into attempts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election are the slates of pro-Trump [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips and Caroline Anders Donald Trump could soon face charges in another investigation, this one into the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that culminated in the [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips The president's son Hunter Biden has reached a tentative agreement to plead guilty to two minor tax crimes and admit to the facts of a gun charge, [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Former president Donald Trump said Thursday night that he has been indicted in connection with a criminal investigation into whether he took government secrets with him after [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has pitched himself as Donald Trump but more electable. He's seen as the biggest threat to Trump winning the 2024 Republican presidential [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips A federal prosecutor may be nearing a decision on whether to charge Hunter Biden with tax offenses and a false statement related to a gun purchase, but [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips The FBI is in hot water for misusing a powerful surveillance tool nearly 300,000 times in 2020 and early 2021, including to search for information about Americans [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips While most elections across the nation take place next year, there are a few big ones in 2023. Tuesday brought primary elections across the country - from [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Philadelphia is one of the last big cities in America to have never chosen a woman to lead it. That could soon change. On Tuesday, the city [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips The Kentucky governor's race will be one of the biggest elections of the year. Republicans are trying to unseat a popular Democratic governor who has managed to [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips and Matthew Brown House Republicans have locked the Biden administration in a standoff over a deadline to raise the national debt ceiling by this summer, or risk [...]

Byline: Perry Stein, Amber Phillips and David Ovalle The Supreme Court has preserved full access to mifepristone, a key abortion medication, while a lower court considers whether to restrict when [...]

Byline: Perry Stein and Amber Phillips The Supreme Court is poised to make its first major abortion-related decision since overturning Roe v. Wade last June. The justices have given themselves [...]