U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, is planning to leave Congress due to his wife's illness by the end of this year, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The Labor Department's inspector general said Tuesday it will soon run out of its infusion of pandemic cash and will have to trim its investigation into the fraudsters who stole tens of billions of dollars from the unemployment benefit system.

Republican and Democratic Senate leaders on Tuesday praised the bipartisan debt ceiling deal struck by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, despite hardliners in both parties criticizing the agreement for having too many compromises.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday dodged questions about whether President Biden will hold a campaign rally for his 2024 reelection bid.

Even with the new spending restraints in the debt limit deal, the U.S. government's deficits are still on course to keep climbing to record levels over the next few decades.

A U.S. citizen living in Thailand was arrested on charges of threatening to murder North Carolina Republican Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis along with their staffs because he was angry about receiving a huge number of unsolicited political emails.

Rep. Dan Bishop on Tuesday became the first Republican to signal his support for ousting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over an agreement with President Biden to hike the debt limit past the 2024 election.

It has long been clear that the ideology and mindset of the hyper-woke are quite distinct from mainstream liberals and conservatives. The preoccupation with both guilt and shame, the rituals, the reflexive censoriousness, and the refusal to entertain other points of view are all telltale signs that “woke” — primarily characterized by the desire to tear down existing structures and institutions due to perceived moral corruption, evidenced through disparities between groups — is something more than just another political ideology.

California’s periodic wildfires have grown so regular and so damaging that one of the biggest home and car insurance companies will no longer sell new home policies due to the risk and rising construction costs.

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro ended up being a clownish autocrat. Still, he generally supported the United States in international affairs. The same definitely cannot be said of Brazil's current returner president, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva. Indeed, the only apt comparison between Bolsonaro and Lula is that both men have little regard for democratic norms.