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A federal judge overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial involving Donald Trump has denied the former president's motion for a mistrial.

President Joe Biden welcomed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines to the White House on Monday as part of continued efforts to strengthen security and economic relations in the region amid concerns over an increasingly assertive China.

President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is expected to appear in court Monday morning in northeast Arkansas for a hearing related to a years-old paternity dispute.

A new joint effort by the government and the finance industry to prevent another teetering bank from triggering a wider crisis is underscoring US and international worries about the sector and producing another no-win political headache for the Biden administration.

Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Sunday teased a "major announcement" on May 22, signaling he will formally enter the 2024 GOP presidential primary after launching an exploratory committee earlier this month.

A second convoy of US citizens organized by the US government arrived in Port Sudan on Sunday as part of an effort to evacuate Americans from the Sudan conflict.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said Sunday that President Joe Biden "doesn't have to negotiate" over the debt ceiling, saying that "Republicans in the House, led by Kevin McCarthy, have passed the solution."

Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson said Sunday he would sign a federal abortion ban if he were elected president but would support exceptions.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday brushed aside concerns about President Joe Biden's age following the president's reelection bid announcement, saying "Age is one thing. I think experience is another."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent the past few months running to the right ahead of his expected entry into the 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign. From signing into law a six-week abortion ban to fighting with Disney, the governor has focused on satisfying his party's conservative base.

From statehouses to the presidential campaign trail, Republicans are escalating their political attacks on transgender people -- a reflection of what they see as a cultural fight their base is eager to wage.

Opportunity is ripe for Republicans to win back the Senate next year -- if they can land the candidates to pull it off.

Some student loan servicers have recently cut back on customer service hours, adding to the fear that borrowers won't have sufficient support when transitioning back into repayment after a more than three-year pandemic pause.

President Joe Biden joked about a range of topics at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday but struck a serious tone as he called for the release of wrongfully detained Americans abroad.

When Joe Biden confirmed he will run for reelection this week, America's European allies knew exactly what that meant for the future of the transatlantic relationship.

The first US-led effort to evacuate private American citizens from the conflict in Sudan was completed Saturday, with a convoy organized by the US government reaching Port Sudan after a long journey from Khartoum.

It's one of the most commonly asked poll questions: How do Americans feel about the state of the nation? And recently, the answer has usually been a negative one.

There's been a series of findings about Supreme Court justices failing to fully disclose gifts and real estate deals. Here's what the former director of the US Office of Government Ethics has to say about ethics rules for justices.

On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their "insane asylums" and "mental institutions" to send the patients to the United States as migrants.

President Joe Biden called for the release of detained journalists and citizens abroad at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday, before poking fun at everything from his age to Elon Musk.