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LEHI, Utah – He’s no stranger to the spotlight or politics, but Senator Mitt Romney admits that there’s been a learning curve during his first few months in the U.S. senate. Senator Romney told the several dozen people attending the Townhall event in Lehi that he remembers thinking “Oh my goodness what have I gotten […]
The Pentagon is shifting $1.5 billion in funds originally targeted for support of the Afghan security forces and other projects to help pay for construction of nearly 80 miles (130 kilometers) of wall at the U.S.-Mexican border, officials said Friday.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says special counsel Robert Mueller won't appear before his panel next week, despite the committee's hope that Mueller would testify May 15.
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MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday the country faces a "constitutional crisis" over President Donald Trump's resistance to congressional investigation, and she promised a methodical, if lengthy, effort to pursue oversight of the White House.
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Lindsay Whitehurst and Jonathan J. Cooper, ASSOCIATED PRESS
More than a dozen states have moved to declare pornography a public health crisis, raising concerns among some experts who say the label goes too far and carries its own risks.
Some senior House lawmakers, frustrated by a decade of frozen congressional salaries, are quietly exploring whether to accept an annual pay raise that they've shunned since Barack Obama was first president.
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Mary Clare Jalonick and Jonathan Lemire, ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr., calling him in to answer questions about his 2017 testimony to the panel as part of its probe into Russian election interference.
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MARY CLARE, JALONICK, LISA MASCARO & JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the legal battle with the Trump administration over access to special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
FBI Director Chris Wray said Tuesday that he does not consider court-approved FBI surveillance to be "spying" and said he has no evidence the FBI illegally monitored President Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 election.
Former Vice President Joe Biden says that President Donald Trump uses immigration "to demonize people" and that separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border "is not who we are."
Voters on Tuesday were deciding whether to make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin — the psychoactive substance in "magic mushrooms" — and add a new chapter to the city's role in shaping wider drug policy.
Muqadas Ashraf was just 16 when her parents married her off to a Chinese man who had come to Pakistan looking for a bride. Less than five months later, Muqadas is back in her home country, pregnant and seeking a divorce from a husband she says was abusive.
The Trump administration plans to let an additional 30,000 foreigners return to the United States through September for seasonal work, a move that reflects how the booming economy has complicated President Donald Trump's hard-line efforts on immigration.
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Andrew Taylor and Jonathan Lemire, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made it official: The administration won't be turning President Donald Trump's tax returns over to the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
In what could be a grim preview of what's to come if the world's two largest economies square off in a trade war, shares in multinational corporations were hammered Monday on both sides of the Pacific after a tweet from President Donald Trump.
Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker is proposing that all gun owners be licensed by the federal government, a process that would include an interview and safety training.
SUNDAY EDITION – This week, what the U.S. is doing to protect religious freedom around the world. We talk to the reporter behind a new in-depth piece about the religious freedom ambassador at large. Plus–a look at the treasures of the Spike 150 celebration. And new data shows Utah has the most Ponzi schemes per […]
North Korea on Saturday fired several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a likely sign of Pyongyang's growing frustration at stalled diplomatic talks with Washington meant to provide coveted sanctions relief in return for nuclear disarmament.
President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin discussed what Trump again dismissed as the "Russian Hoax" in their first known phone call since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election meddling. Putin chuckled about Mueller's findings, Trump said.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado jumped into the packed Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, announcing a 2020 campaign that had been stalled while he was treated for prostate cancer.
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NICHOLAS RICCARDI and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press
After more than two years of the Donald Trump presidency, Andrea Petrusky is ready for some fundamental changes in the way the United States government works.
More Florida classroom teachers could carry guns in school under a bill passed Wednesday by state lawmakers, the latest response to last year's mass shooting at a Parkland high school.
