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District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Tuesday that she will not seek re-election in 2026, ending a 12-year run as the city’s chief executive and setting up an open race to lead the nation’s capital through a period of political tension and economic uncertainty. Bowser, 52, told NBC-4 Washington …

The Pentagon said Monday it has opened a misconduct review into Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona — a retired Navy captain and former astronaut — to determine whether he could be recalled to active duty to face potential court-martial proceedings after he and five other lawmakers urged military and …

A federal judge has thrown out the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that President Donald Trump’s handpicked prosecutor was unlawfully appointed and lacked the authority to seek the indictments. U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie issued the sweeping decision Monday, …

Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins and his chief of staff are under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, though the panel didn’t detail Friday why it’s looking into their actions. The brief press release said the committee will “announce its course of action in this matter on or before” Jan. …

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ call for a close reexamination of the 42 million people who receive federal food aid has befuddled advocates and lawmakers, coming mere days after recipients began to see benefits that had been stalled during the government shutdown. Details remain scant a week after Rollins during …

The Justice Department is again urging a federal court in Florida to unseal grand jury transcripts from the early federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that Congress’ newly enacted Epstein Transparency Act now compels the public release of records long shielded from view. In a filing submitted Friday, DOJ attorneys …

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Sunday reaffirmed his belief that President Donald Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot,” even as he described their first in-person meeting at the White House as “productive” and an “opportunity” to address the city’s affordability crisis. The comments — delivered during an interview …

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators sharply condemned President Donald Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace proposal on Saturday, arguing that the administration crafted a plan that mirrors the Kremlin’s demands and risks legitimizing Moscow’s territorial aggression. Their attacks came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled to refute allegations that he privately …

A new U.S. Department of Education regulation to narrow eligibility for a key student debt relief program for public service workers has drawn strong opposition from advocates who argue the regulation is an attempt to target organizations whose missions do not align with President Donald Trump’s agenda. Under a final …

Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the state’s request to pause a court ruling that would have required using the lines legislators drew in 2021. The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use …

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand Republican from Georgia and once one of Donald Trump’s fiercest loyalists in Congress, announced Friday that she will resign from the House early next year after weeks of escalating clashes with the president. Greene said her final day in office will be Jan. 5, …

The Trump administration has drafted a sweeping 28-point peace framework that would end the war in Ukraine by requiring Kyiv to surrender the eastern Donbas region and Crimea, abandon its bid to join NATO and accept long-term security guarantees enforced jointly by the United States and Russia, according to a …

In a remarkable display of political detente, President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met face-to-face at the White House on Friday, setting aside months of bitter campaign-trail attacks to discuss affordability, crime and the future of the nation’s largest city. Trump, who had spent months warning …

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to halt its ongoing deployment of thousands of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital, ruling that President Donald Trump’s months-long military mission unlawfully encroaches on Washington, D.C.’s authority to direct its own law-enforcement operations. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded …

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday night issued a sharply worded policy banning the display of hate symbols at all of its installations, hours after public revelations that an earlier draft had described swastikas, nooses and other extremist imagery as merely “potentially divisive.” The wording prompted swift criticism from lawmakers, …