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WASHINGTON: A divided House finally launched debate Thursday on Democrats' expansive social and environment bill, with party leaders hoping that cost estimates expected from Congress' top fiscal analyst would nail down moderate…

WASHINGTON: US vice-president Kamala Harris returned to Washington DC after a four-day visit to France to a devastating report on Sunday of her widening rift with the Biden White House, alarming Democrats still reeling from the loss of a…

WASHINGTON: Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former US President Donald Trump, has been indicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection…

WASHINGTON: About 900,000 kids aged 5-11 have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in their first week of eligibility, the White House said on Wednesday. Final clearance for the shots was granted by federal regulators on…

WASHINGTON: After a daylong standoff, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a $1 trillion package of highway, broadband and other infrastructure improvement, sending it on to President Joe Biden to sign…

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden is expected to deliver an update on negotiations about his domestic spending plans and speak with Democrats before heading to Europe later on Thursday for meetings with world leaders, a person familiar…

WASHINGTON: Election lawsuits multiplying by the day. An obscure federal agency blocking the presidential transition. The very legitimacy of Joe Biden's victory under assault as supporters of Donald Trump riot at the Capitol. Amid all…

BOGOTA: Colombian security forces have captured the country's most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and…

WASHINGTON: Neera Tanden, whose bid to be White House budget chief was derailed by opposition from Republicans after her sharp critiques of them on Twitter, was named White House staff secretary on Friday, putting her in a key…

WASHINGTON: Jill Biden spoke candidly Wednesday about the challenges of her job as first lady and the unexpected scrutiny she's experienced in a position she never imagined having when she was young. Speaking at an event for the Barbara…