House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer announced subpoenas Thursday for the personal and business bank records of Hunter Biden and James Biden, taking the first concrete steps in public to advance the impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

Georgia's Republican Senate Caucus is suspending a GOP state senator who attacked them for opposing his plan to impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for indicting former President Donald Trump.

House Republicans have not reached a consensus on a stopgap bill. A partial government shutdown at midnight Saturday appears unavoidable.

The second Republican presidential debate this week attracted fewer viewers than the first debate in August, with an estimated 9.5 million tuning into Wednesday night's event.

A significant expansion of voting rights in Mississippi was put in doubt Thursday when a federal appeals court said it's reconsidering an earlier decision to allow people convicted of certain felonies to cast ballots.

Former President Donald Trump will not seek to get his Georgia election interference case transferred to state court, his attorneys said in a filing Thursday, three weeks after a judge rejected a similar attempt by the former president's White House chief of staff.

A progressive activist questioned whether the Senate's dress code of business attire discriminates against transgender individuals.

After the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, many U.S. service members and veterans continue to struggle with the meaning of their service. Several veterans told the Washington Examiner that the anniversary of the country’s fall to the Taliban in August is a particularly difficult period. Veterans Crisis Line data provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to corroborate their statements. Calls, texts, and chats to the hotline increased from 52,581 in August 2020 to 71,353 in August 2023.