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Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawmakers returned from their Thanksgiving break Monday with much work to accomplish and relatively little time to accomplish it in. Here are five things to watch for [Read More…]

Ronda Churchill/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will meet this week with high-dollar Republicans to try to cement their support for the newest political action committee supporting his presidential bid, his [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s the holiday season at the White House and thousands of feet of ribbon, ornaments and bells are helping mark the occasion. First lady Jill Biden unveiled the holiday decor [Read More…]

Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images (AMERICUS, Ga.) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter will be memorialized over several days this week in Georgia, starting Monday. Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at 96, [Read More…]

Sean Rayford/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump and his allies are ramping up high-dollar fundraising efforts with less than two months to go until the Iowa caucus begins the 2024 Republican primary, as several [Read More…]

Nicholas Kerr/ABC News (NEW YORK) — A winnowing field of Republican presidential candidates are working feverishly to close the polling gap between themselves and Donald Trump — among them is former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, [Read More…]

ABC News Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie on Sunday sought to play down the potential consequences if rival Donald Trump loses the 2024 primary race but refuses to concede — or even keeps running as [Read More…]

Liz Naftali Just hours before 4-year-old American hostage Abigail Idan was confirmed to be have been released by Hamas in Gaza, a top White House adviser said they were optimistic she would soon have “a [Read More…]

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said the two-dozen hostages freed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Friday is “only a start,” with more hostages expected to be released soon [Read More…]

Nathan Howard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin’s announcement earlier this month that he won’t seek reelection tilted next year’s Senate map even further away from Democrats’ narrow majority, political analysts say — [Read More…]

Scott Cunningham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died at 96 last week, offered steadfast support for her husband, Jimmy Carter, throughout their 77-year marriage — but she forged her own legacy through [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson met with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday night, sources familiar with the matter [Read More…]

Marcia Straub/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Following the death of former first Lady Rosalynn Carter, President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered flags to be flown at half-staff from Saturday, Nov. 25 until the day of her [Read More…]

Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Both the legal team for former President Donald Trump and a group of six voters represented by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on Monday [Read More…]

Mark Newman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Near the end of the third quarter of last week’s NFL game between the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals, play was stopped because there was an object with flashing [Read More…]

Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images (DES MOINES, Iowa) — Influential Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader, officially endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Republican primary race during [Read More…]

Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images (DES MOINES, Iowa) — Influential Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader, is expected to endorse Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Republican primary race, [Read More…]

John C. Clark/For The Washington Post via Getty Images (RICHMOND, Va.) — After winning full control of the state’s General Assembly two weeks ago, Virginia Democrats are wasting no time exercising their power. On Monday, the [Read More…]

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal appellate panel narrowly ruled on Monday that a key provision in the Voting Rights Act (VRA) does not allow people outside the federal government to sue over alleged [Read More…]

Diana Walker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The life of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 96, will be celebrated next week with memorial events and a funeral service in her [Read More…]