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The US Department of Agriculture has officially confirmed former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue as its secretary, but the department's communications field is barren.

The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a $1.1 trillion government funding bill that keep agencies operating through the end of September.

Polls, once Donald Trump's favorite thing in the world, have largely turned against him in the 104 days he has been president. Everywhere he looks, bad numbers stare back at him: He's the least popular president at this stage of a term in office and a majority of people don't believe him to be honest.

FBI Director James Comey beat back questions about the continuing federal probe into Russian interference in the US elections, as senators tried to pry any bit of information out of him Wednesday.

FBI Director James Comey will testify Wednesday on the Capitol Hill, the day after both the sitting US President and the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee sharply criticized him for his role in the outcome of last year's presidential election.

Last year's now-infamous airport tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton was a crucial moment for FBI Director James Comey, he said Wednesday, marking the moment he decided that the Department of Justice was not capable of an independent investigation into Hillary Clinton.

Within minutes of the start of James Comey's testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, two things became very clear:

Here it is: our first visual glimpse at the hive mind where Trump's chief strategist, Steven Bannon, is plotting the "deconstruction" of the administrative state.

FBI Director James Comey sent a clear message to newsrooms across the country Wednesday: American journalists who receive classified material from sources are not criminals.

Some conservatives are criticizing late night host Jimmy Kimmel for calling for greater health care coverage in light of his newborn son's health problems.

If you were to do a Google image search for "Melania Trump and fur," plenty of pictures pop up.

FBI Director James Comey revealed Wednesday that Hillary Clinton emails containing classified information were "somehow" being forwarded to former congressman Anthony Weiner by his wife and top Clinton aide, Huma Abedin.

US foreign policy should sometimes separate values such as freedom, human dignity and "the way people are treated" from policies it pursues around the world, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told his agency Wednesday.

President Donald Trump, in a series of late night tweets on Tuesday, both revisited his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton and seemingly slammed the judgment of his own FBI director.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to work as a "mediator, an arbitrator or a facilitator" to help broker peace between the Israelis and Palestinians as he welcomed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the White House.

FBI Director James Comey is testifying before Congress Wednesday, and received several sharp questions on his decision to alert Congress just days before the election that his agency was investigating emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop that were potentially related to a probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private server.

Hillary Clinton's aggressive attack on the legitimacy of Donald Trump's presidency -- she repeatedly noted she won the popular vote by 3 million votes, she lost because of James Comey and the Russian hacking -- on Tuesday drew huge amounts of attention in the political world.

A Republican lawmaker says he moved from supporting his party's health care replacement bill to being undecided due to the recent inclusion of so-called "essential health benefits," such as emergency services, hospitalization and prescription drugs.