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ATLANTA (AP) -- Even though Republican Brian Jack is only a first-term congressman, he has become a regular in the Oval Office these days. As the top recruiter for his party's House campaign team, the Georgia native is often reviewing polling and biographies of potential candidates with President Donald Trump.
Mega billionaire Elon Musk, in a friendly interview with his aide and conservative influencer Katie Miller, said his efforts leading the Department of Government Efficiency were only "somewhat successful" and he would not do it over again.
Former Rep. Colin Allred is ending his U.S. Senate campaign in Texas and instead will attempt a House comeback bid, potentially paving the way for Rep. Jasmine Crockett to enter the race for Democrats' nomination in a state that is critical for the party's long shot hopes to reclaim a Senate majority in next year's midterm elections.
Former Rep. Colin Allred is ending his U.S. Senate campaign in Texas and instead will attempt a House comeback bid, potentially paving the way for Rep. Jasmine Crockett to become the early favorite for Democrats' nomination in a state they have long hoped to make more competitive.
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump's chaotic political universe has at least one consistent law that rises above any other: The president has no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.
Billionaire businessman and activist Tom Steyer, who once self-financed an unsuccessful White House campaign and spent his own money advocating for President Donald Trump's impeachment, has launched his bid for California governor as a Democrat.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- As Democrats dig in for a lengthening government shutdown, former Vice President Kamala Harris is cheering them on as she travels the country touting her presidential campaign memoir amid speculation about another White House run.
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump's push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about whether to change a name that's been in place since 1949.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Amy Kremer was an early tea party leader who supported Donald Trump for president in 2016. She ran for Congress from Georgia in 2017 and got less than 1% of the Republican primary vote.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Fight! Fight! Fight!
Texas Republicans were unable again Monday to approve new congressional districts to meet President Donald Trump's demands as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats urged Republicans to stand down and avoid a partisan brawl spanning multiple statehouses.
Texas Republicans were set Monday try to convene the state Legislature and redraw congressional districts to satisfy President Donald Trump, as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats urged Republicans to stand down and avoid a partisan brawl spanning multiple statehouses.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Anderson Clayton wanted a headline name to speak at North Carolina Democrats' summer gala -- but the state party chair bypassed familiar Capitol Hill figures, looking instead to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
The military parade to mark the Army's 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history. Yet it still reflects global traditions that serve a range of political and cultural purposes.
Troops marching in lockstep. Patriotic tunes filling the air. The commander in chief looking on at it all.
With an uncharacteristically feistiness, Speaker Mike Johnson took clear sides Sunday in President Donald Trump's breakup with mega-billionaire Elon Musk.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- Tommy Tuberville is a U.S. senator and wants to become the next Alabama governor. But his new campaign paraphernalia recognize his old job: coach.
PAINTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Janet Lynn Stumbo leaned on her cane and surveyed the two dozen or so voters who had convened in a small Appalachian town to meet with the chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The billionaire heir and the former bartender.
President Donald Trump's administration has dug in on its contention that the government should not have to repatriate Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite U.S. Supreme Court and lower court rulings that he was wrongly deported and should be returned to the United States.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- On a day when stock markets around the world dropped precipitously, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl led a celebration of the president whose global tariffs sparked the sell-off.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- On a day when stock markets around the world dropped precipitously, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl led a celebration of the president whose global tariffs sparked the sell-off.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- On a day when stock markets around the world dropped precipitously, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl led a celebration of the president whose global tariffs sparked the selloff.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington. And voters responded by forbidding future presidents from being elected more than twice.
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump's order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country's Founding Fathers declared that "all men are created equal."
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, used the inaugural episode of his new podcast to break from progressives by speaking out against allowing transgender women and girls to compete in female sports.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Trump administration's demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservatives from across the country filled a ballroom a few blocks from the White House and lamented that the United States is abandoning the ideals that forged a great nation. Some attendees donned red hats with various inscriptions mocking President Donald Trump and his "Make America Great Again" movement.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Good-government advocates, anti-tax conservatives, politicians of various stripes and everyday Americans grouse about "waste, fraud and abuse" across the U.S. government.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump's second administration has put forth an avalanche of policy changes and political pronouncements that have jolted Washington and the world.
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose or threaten new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China.
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose or threaten new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China.
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose new tariffs on imports from Canada, China and Mexico.
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose new tariffs on imports from Canada, China and Mexico.
Federal authorities have arrested a former Federal Reserve senior adviser for allegedly giving inside economic information to China.
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump's brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the U.S. economy's trajectory, could never afford to live in his Manhattan skyscraper or visit his club in south Florida.
President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.
President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump has promised sweeping actions in his second administration.
Eight years ago, Donald Trump delivered an inaugural address that overshadowed the typical optimism and promises of unity with a dark portrait of national life.
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, is being honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day's farm labor during the Great Depression. As they came to a gate, his companions stood aside and let Carter enter first.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Jimmy Carter will lie in state for a second day Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday.
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) -- When Jimmy Carter chose branding designs for his presidential campaign, he passed on the usual red, white and blue. He wanted green.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) -- Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David and a field trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to demonstrate the consequences of war.
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) -- Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine.
PHOENIX (AP) -- As Washington heaved over the possibility of a partial government shutdown, leading far-right figures gathered with thousands of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters and, for the most part, gloried in splintering the president-elect's party.
PHOENIX (AP) -- As Washington heaved over the possibility of a partial government shutdown, leading far-right figures gathered with thousands of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters and, for the most part, gloried in splintering the president-elect's party.
PHOENIX (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump came to Arizona on Sunday for his first rally speech since winning the November election.
ATLANTA (AP) -- As he concludes his time as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison is downplaying his party's November loss to President-elect Donald Trump and arguing Democrats avoided even greater losses that parties in power have faced around the world.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Already reeling from their November defeats, Democrats now are grappling with President Joe Biden's pardoning of his son for federal crimes after the party spent years slamming Donald Trump as a threat to democracy who disregarded the law.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore.