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President Donald Trump has nominated a key diplomat as the new US ambassador to Afghanistan.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he plans to continue in his job despite President Donald Trump's comments that he'd have picked someone else had he known Sessions would recuse himself from the Justice Department's Russia investigation.

President Donald Trump has nominated a slew of prospective federal prosecutors to fill top US attorney seats across the nation, but personally met with one prior to her selection in June -- a move some former Justice Department and White House sources say sharply departs from past practice and more generally is at odds with the understood custom of insulating US attorneys from political influence.

A San Antonio man was arrested last week after he allegedly left a threatening voicemail on a Capitol Hill phone for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Jared Kushner met Thursday with Sen. Lindsey Graham on Capitol Hill, though the South Carolina Republican said the two discussed immigration policy and not congressional investigations into Russian interference in last year's US presidential election.

A group of Republican senators criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday, a day after the President rebuked top law enforcement officials in an interview with The New York Times.

The President would like to provide some context.

Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat, and Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, have found a bipartisan message in their push to reform how states implement pre-trial bail.

A White House spokeswoman said Thursday that President Donald Trump has confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, despite the President telling the New York Times 24 hours earlier that he regretted appointing Sessions because he was forced to recuse himself from investigations into the 2016 campaign and Russia.

President Donald Trump was sworn in on Jan. 20. Between that day and today, he has referred to the New York Times as "failing" in no fewer than 17 tweets.

In the best of times, Washington is a place for cross-pollination of politics across partisan lines.

The Senate's Russia sanctions legislation has generated objections from a wide array of US business industries, which have undertaken a lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill to try to make changes to the bill.

John McCain has always lived for the fight. Now he's facing his toughest battle.

President Donald Trump said in an interview published Wednesday that he would not have chosen Jeff Sessions to be his attorney general had he known Sessions would recuse himself over matters related to the 2016 presidential campaign.

President Donald Trump sat down for a nearly hour-long interview with The New York Times -- you know, the one he has repeatedly called "failing" -- on Wednesday. And he went off on, well, everything.

Sen. John McCain tweeted his thanks to his supporters Thursday morning following news of his cancer diagnosis.

O.J. Simpson's parole hearing is set for Thursday. The former NFL player was sentenced in 2008 to nine to 33 years in prison for charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Of course, that was not Simpson's most notable court appearance. In 1995, Simpson was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman.

Police are searching for six teens who were visiting Washington for an international robotics competition and have been reported missing.

News of Arizona Sen. John McCain's brain cancer reverberated across Capitol Hill on Wednesday night, breaking just as a group of Senate Republicans were huddled together in the Dirksen Senate Office Building trying to find a way forward on their health care bill.

Senate judiciary committee Chairman Chuck Grassley threatened Thursday to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort if they do not appear before his committee for a scheduled appearance next week.