Student loan payments are due in October for the first time in three-plus years -- but for the next 12 months, borrowers will be able to skip payments without facing the harsh financial consequences of defaulting on their loans.
Former President Donald Trump is a heavy favorite to win the 2024 Republican nomination. He's getting over 60% in a number of national surveys of the GOP primary and holds the advantage in every early state that's been polled.
Rep. Garret Graves, one of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's closest allies, told CNN that he's fed up with conservative critics dangling the threat of McCarthy's ouster, saying that he's prepared to put the debate to rest by forcing a vote on the threat.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Saturday he still lacks support from a handful of GOP hardliners to put a Republican stopgap measure on the floor next week, making a government shutdown likely with just one week until the deadline.
Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, were seen Saturday morning taking a ride through the Plains Peanut Festival in Plains, Georgia, the Carter Center said in a social media post.
New Jersey Democratic Rep. Andy Kim announced Saturday that he'll run next year against Sen. Bob Menendez in the wake of the senator's indictment and refusal to step down.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted for the second time in 10 years on bribery and corruption charges. Here's a look at active and recent federal cases against federal lawmakers and governors.
At the Kern County Fair this weekend, monster trucks roar in a grandstand, all-Alaskan racing pigs squeal in a tent, and at the county Republican party table, voters smile and pose next to a life-sized cardboard picture of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
A furious scramble for second place is underway in the crowded Republican primary contest, with candidates vying for an opportunity to directly take on front-runner Donald Trump. The position, once held by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, now appears to be more of a free-for-all.
A new surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border has placed immense pressure on federal resources and tested President Joe Biden's border policies only months after going into place, prompting fresh criticism from Republicans and concern within the administration over a politically delicate issue.
The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI's New York field office pleaded guilty Friday in connection to a scheme to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former Albanian intelligence employee as well as foreign contacts he made with the individual.
The clock is ticking on a potential shutdown of the federal government. If Congress doesn't pass a federal spending bill by the end of September 30, many government operations will grind to a halt. Essential services, however, would continue.
President Joe Biden falsely claimed Friday that he has been to the site of "every mass shooting," the latest in a series of false claims about his travel record.
Justice Elena Kagan said Friday that she thought it would be a "good thing" for the Supreme Court to adapt some version of a code of ethics that governs lower court judges and that she hoped the justices would make progress on the issue soon.
The US Coast Guard Academy on Friday announced it had banned a retired captain from its grounds following a CNN report this week that revealed the captain, who is now president of a small college, exchanged hundreds of sexually suggestive messages with a student more than a decade ago.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and other top Garden State Democrats are calling on Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez to resign -- a sign of how quickly the senator's political support may erode after Friday's shocking indictment on federal bribery charges.
The FBI has stepped up its search for members of a multimillion-dollar cybercrime group more than two years after the bureau and its European allies announced they had taken down the group's computer systems, according to newly unsealed court documents reviewed by CNN.
President Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a step he said was part of an effort "to send a clear message about how important this issue is to me and the country.
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