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McCarthy expresses optimism on averting government shutdown

(WASHINGTON) -- To avert a shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House should still try to pass a Republican short-term funding measure next week in addition to the individual spending bills, despite GOP holdouts."I would like to -- you need to -- because I ...
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Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy reflects on why her husband Vivek decided to run for president

(WASHINGTON) -- Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy has been active on the campaign trail with her husband Vivek, an author and businessman running for the GOP presidential ticket, along with the rest of her family.Dr. Ramaswamy sat down with ABC News' Linsey Davis to talk about ...
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Biden announces White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention

(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden announced on Friday the establishment of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to help reduce the nation's epidemic of gun violence."He believes that now is the moment to accelerate our work to reduce gun violence, which ...
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‘There’s always deeper than rock bottom’: Florida Democrats gird for 2024

(WASHINGTON) -- An auto strike impacting Michigan. A prominent GOP Senate recruit in Pennsylvania. A pending campaign launch from a hardliner in Arizona. News just in recent days has put the battleground map into sharp relief.But left out of the conversation is the nation's ...
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Migrant crisis explained: What’s behind the border surge

(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is doubling down on strategies to contain migration as unauthorized border crossings surge across the southwest.The number of migrants apprehended in a single day by the U.S. Border Patrol approached an estimated 9,000 on Wednesday, according to officials who ...
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Sen. Bob Menendez indicted again for corruption, allegedly had cash stuffed in coat, gold bars

(NEW YORK) -- A federal grand jury in New York has returned a sweeping indictment against United States Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, in connection with improper foreign relations and business dealings.The investigation focused on a luxury car, ...
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South Korea visit to ‘deepen and strengthen’ relations with US, top Commerce official says

(WASHINGTON) -- A top Department of Commerce official's visit to South Korea is intended to "find ways to deepen and strengthen" the connection between the two countries, and to build off the President of South Korea's state visit to the United States earlier this ...
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Justice Department arrests, charges IT contractor with espionage

(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department has arrested and charged an IT contractor with two counts of espionage for allegedly taking secret and top-secret information from the State Department and sending it to a foreign country.Abraham Teklu Lemma, a foreign national with U.S. citizenship, was ...
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Sen. Bob Menendez indicted over gifts of gold bars, car, apartment

(NEW YORK) -- A federal grand jury in New York has returned a sweeping indictment against United States Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee.The investigation focused on a luxury car, gold bars and an apartment allegedly received by Menendez ...
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Zelenskyy lobbies Congress for Ukraine aid at center of GOP spending battle

(WASHINGTON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington on Thursday to make the case for $24 billion more in U.S. aid tied up in a showdown between House Republicans over spending.Zelenskyy's first stop was Capitol Hill, where he was lobbying lawmakers behind closed ...
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