Inflation eased in March but remained high, especially in states looming as battlegrounds in next year's presidential election.

Congress is set to blow through its deadline for crafting a federal budget this week, even as the government moves closer to breaching the debt ceiling.

The Arizona House of Representatives on Wednesday expelled a Republican lawmaker who organized a presentation making unsubstantiated accusations that a wide range of politicians, judges and public officials of both parties took bribes from a Mexican drug cartel.

Here we go. The countdown is on for the 2024 presidential election. Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has the first bit of significant news, revealing Wednesday that Fox News will host the first Republican presidential primary debate. It is scheduled for August in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, though the exact date was not specified.

Former President Donald Trump sued his ex-attorney Michael Cohen for more than $500 million on Wednesday, saying he breached their contractual relationship and helped to spread falsehoods about Mr. Trump in a criminal prosecution in New York.

When Gov. Greg Abbott announced his first busload of 30 or so migrants, plucked from the streets of Texas, had reached Washington last year, he faced a wall of criticism.

Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday advanced legislation aimed at letting parents bypass requirements for students to wear face masks in school.