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Angela Paxton, a Texas state senator and wife of impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton, said late Monday that she will attend her husband’s upcoming impeachment trial, vowing to “carry out my duties.”  “As a member of the Senate, I hold these obligations sacred and I will carry out my …

Washington — Lauding it as a “crisis averted,” President Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Friday night after both chambers of Congress passed an agreement to suspend the debt ceiling and limit federal spending. The president said he will sign the bill, known as the Fiscal Responsibility …

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress in a letter Monday that the U.S. government might not be able to pay the bills in just over a week — as early as June 1 — if Congress does not act to raise or suspend the debt ceiling. Her letter came as …

President Biden on Wednesday honored nine public safety officers with the Medal of Valor in recognition of extraordinary acts of heroism and bravery, including officers who died in the line of duty.  Recipients of the award include five police officers, one sheriff’s deputy and three firefighters. Congress created the medal …

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pledged on Monday to pass legislation to raise the nation’s debt ceiling — but on condition of capping future federal spending at 1% — as he lashed out at President Biden for refusing to engage in budget-cutting negotiations to prevent a debt crisis. In a high-profile …

The FBI is working to track down who leaked sensitive and secret defense and intelligence documents and shared them on social media, and at the same time, the Pentagon is reducing the number of people who have access to the kind of classified information that has been leaked. The number …

The federal government inadvertently published the Social Security numbers of 1,900 people who visited the White House in December 2020, as part of the final report published by the Jan. 6 House select committee late last year, the Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) inspector general acknowledged in a report Friday.  In February …

A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to further restrict xylazine, a veterinary sedative also known as tranq, in an effort to crack down on the drug’s spread. Xylazine is increasingly being cut into other drugs, with the Drug Enforcement Administration saying it had found xylazine in nearly a quarter of the …

Hunter Biden is suing a Delaware-based computer repairman for invasion of privacy and publication of private information. The counterclaim lawsuit, which also responds to repairman John Mac Isaac’s libel lawsuit, argues that Mac Isaac invaded Biden’s privacy in 2019 by accessing and wrongfully sharing his personal data with several individuals.  …

The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who was supposed to stand trial beginning Monday on charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, as well as another riot defendant who is now also missing, officials said. A federal judge in Washington issued bench warrants for the arrest …