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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be taking sides in the bitter Republican primary in his home state of West Virginia that pits US Rep. David McKinley against Trump-backed Rep. Alex Mooney.

Ohio has changed since Tim Ryan first ran for Congress in 2002 -- and so have the prospects of a Democrat running in the state.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Fox's Sean Hannity exchanged more than 80 text messages between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden's January 2021 inauguration, communications that show Hannity's evolution from staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump's election lies to being "fed up" with the "lunatics" hurting Trump's cause in the days before January 6.

The Justice Department on Friday challenged an Alabama law that makes it a felony for a doctor to administer gender-affirming health care to minors.

It was 2014 and Diamond Joe was having a moment.

Charles Young, the first Black US Army colonel whose groundbreaking military career was hampered a century ago by the racism of the era, was posthumously promoted on Friday to brigadier general.

President Joe Biden expressed dismay Friday at the news that an American, Willy Joseph Cancel, was killed while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces.

The FBI conducted up to 3.4 million warrantless searches of Americans' electronic data last year including 1.9 million related to a cyber threat from Russia, according to an annual transparency report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed on Friday that he would make Florida a so-called constitutional carry state, which would allow people to publicly carry firearms without permits.

For months now, one thing has been pretty clear: Democrats are headed for an absolutely brutal midterm election unless something BIG changes and QUICKLY.

The family of Trevor Reed, a recently freed US citizen who had been detained in Russia since 2019, said that he feels "horrible" about being home while Paul Whelan remains in Russian custody.

On Thursday, Donald Trump returned to his much-touted -- and to date, deeply underwhelming -- social media venture: Truth Social.

J.D. Vance's bid for the Ohio Republican Senate nomination has turned into the clearest early test in this year's midterm elections of former President Donald Trump's influence over the candidates whom GOP primary voters back and the policies that animate the party.

President Joe Biden and his advisers are still in conversations about how to approach November's Group of 20 summit, whose hosts received confirmation Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend.

More Americans than ever before have health coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act, which is helping send the nation's uninsured rate to near record lows. But the gains could start melting away as early as this summer if the nation's public health emergency is not renewed again.

"I wake up hearing my dad's screams," the daughter of British aid worker David Haines said. "I often wonder, will I ever be happy...will I ever be normal again?"

CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden's January 20, 2021, inauguration. Meadows selectively provided these messages to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Former President Donald Trump said in a sworn affidavit that he doesn't have any documents sought by the New York attorney general in its investigation of the Trump Organization's finances.

"We must win. We must defeat these radicals" Ulrich wrote in one text, "there's treason at work here. When someone committed treason it used to mean something. you used to pay with your life!"

After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the White House Correspondents' Dinner returns on Saturday night.