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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden stepped up his bid to push his multitrillion-dollar domestic plans through Congress Wednesday, lunching with Senate Democrats a day after party leaders announced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration is set to begin evacuations of Afghans who aided the U.S. military effort in the nearly 20-year war during the last week of July, according to a senior admin...

BERLIN (AP) - Former President George W. Bush criticized the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan in an interview with a German broadcaster released Wednesday, saying he fears that Afghan women and gir...

NEW YORK (AP) - Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 d...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore's $95 million lawsuit targeting comedian Sacha Baron Cohen filed after Moore complained he was trick...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Joe Biden declared that preserving voting rights is "a test of our time" Tuesday as Texas Democrats took dramatic action to stymie their state's latest effort in a nation...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Democrats who hurriedly fled to Washington to block sweeping new election laws back home acknowledged Tuesday they can't stay away forever and urged Congress to act on votin...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government's deficit for the first nine months of this budget year hit $2.24 trillion, keeping the country on track for its second-biggest shortfall in history.In its monthl...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Prices for U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most in 13 years, signaling that a swift rebound in spending has run up against widespread supply shortages that have escalated the co...

WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) - Two Baltimore city police officers were shot and a suspect was killed as a U.S. Marshals' task force served a warrant outside a mall Tuesday morning, a Baltimore County police spo...