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WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate panel on Wednesday easily advanced President Joe Biden's nomination of Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary, setting up a final confirmation vote for a key role in ...

Answering growing frustration over vaccine shortages, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. is ramping up deliveries to hard-pressed states over the next three weeks and expects to provide enoug...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Tuesday against moving forward with Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial, making clear a conviction of the former president for "i...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia and the United States traded documents Tuesday to extend their last remaining nuclear arms control treaty days before it is due to expire, the Kremlin said.A Kremlin readout of a ...

Internet users in the northeast U.S. reported widespread outages Tuesday.Verizon reported a fiber cut in Brooklyn via Twitter, although it's not clear if that issue is responsible for the entire outag...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Antony Blinken as America's top diplomat.Senators voted 78-22 to approve Blinken, a longtime Biden confidant, as the nation's 71st secretary of state,...

DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware judge has approved a revised Weinstein Co. bankruptcy plan that provides about $35 million for creditors, with roughly half that amount going to women who have accused di...

Twitter has permanently banned My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell's account. Twitter said he has continued to perpetuate the baseless claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Twitter d...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Monday approved President Joe Biden's nomination of Janet Yellen to be the nation's 78th treasury secretary, making her the first woman to hold the job in the departmen...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The world must take decisive action to build resilience to the devastating effects of climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a global virtual summit Monday, p...