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Allies of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have launched a new super PAC to support his expected candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. Christie has painted himself as the only potential candidate willing to directly take on former President Donald Trump, who is currently leading the GOP field by wide margins. The former governor and federal prosecutor was a...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday.

The South Carolina senator is the sixth major candidate to officially join the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

Tuesday’s meeting was pivotal as negotiators are staring down a June 1 deadline, which is when the Treasury Department says the U.S. could begin defaulting on its debts for the first time in history.

Expect to see paperwork filed in the next 15 days.

Some senators indicated Trump now faces long odds of winning, while others sidestepped questions about Tuesday’s verdict finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

The White House said it was the latest example in the yearslong series of “unfounded, unproven” political attacks against Biden by Republicans ”floating anonymous innuendo.”

Donald Trump’s campaign has told the Republican National Committee about his lack of interest in participating in the first debates this summer, two sources told NBC News.

Republican White House hopefuls are courting influential religious conservatives at an event later Saturday in Iowa that marks the unofficial start of the state’s 2024 caucus campaign.

Elder has criticized Democrats’ “woke” agenda, Black Lives Matter and the notion of systemic racism, positions that have put him at odds with many other Black people.

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst and Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan will introduce a new bill that would cut the soaring cost of minting America’s coins.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled a sweeping package that would raise the nation’s debt limit by $1.5 trillion into next year.

Republicans blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.

Asa Hutchinson said he is running for president in 2024 after eight years as governor of Arkansas.

A Republican consultant was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in conspiring to illegally funnel contributions from a Russian national to former President Donald Trump‘s 2016 presidential campaign. Jesse R. Benton, 45, of The Woodlands, Texas, was convicted in November on a series of charges including conspiracy, contribution by a foreign national, and causing false records to…

Republicans did worse than widely expected in last week’s midterm elections because part of the party is in the grips of extremism, outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said in a new interview. The two-term governor made the comments in a rare national interview, a sit-down with CNN’s Jake Tapper that aired Monday. He said voters “aren’t interested in extremism,”...

The Bay State could soon fall entirely under the control of one party amid a deep ideological divide within the Massachusetts Republican Party. Former Executive Director Gene Hartigan talks about what this election cycle means for the future of the MassGOP if they see a blowout on Nov. 8.

From spending to revenue, Democrats and Republicans have different policy priorities that could affect your finances for years to come. Here’s what you need to know.

A federal appeals court has agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s order requiring that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss in Georgia.

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office. The disclosure — which would typically be unremarkable for a former vice president — is notable given that FBI agents seized classified and top secret information from his former boss’s estate on Aug. 8 while investigating potential violations of three different federal laws.