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Newsom is the second California governor to ever face a recall, and is poised to be the first to survive one, according to recent polling ahead of the election.

Donald Craighead "exhibited signs of possible mental illness" throughout an interview with two special agents, according to a summary of the exchange.

Lawmakers pressured Gensler to pick up the pace on cryptocurrency guidance, arguing a lack of rules could lead to speculation and stifled innovation.

A top DOJ official cited the more than 40 suspected or confirmed homicides of Georgia prison inmates in announcing the civil rights investigation.

Senators will grill Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Gary Gensler on Tuesday over the agency’s plans for cryptocurrency.

At least 1 million children in Afghanistan will suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year, UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore warned.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was grilled at length about his stance on the Biden administration's new Covid vaccine mandates.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a contentious congressional hearing on Monday that the Taliban "is the de facto government of Afghanistan."

President Joe Biden next week will deliver his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly since taking office.

Prince Andrew is accused of sexually abusing a Jeffrey Epstein accuser while she was in the clutches of that ex-friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.

Capitol Police arrested a man with a machete and a bayonet in his pickup, which was painted with a swastika, near DNC headquarters early Monday.

Inbound flights of Afghan refugees to the United States will remain suspended for at least a week, a White House spokeswoman said Monday.

House Democrats proposed a 26.5% top corporate tax rate and 39.6% top individual rate as they try to pay for a $3.5 trillion bill.

Blinken is expected to defend the administration's handling of the situation by arguing that President Joe Biden was faced with two difficult options: "ending the war or escalating it."

SEC says media companies linked to wealthy Chinese exile Guo Wengui settle for over $500 million following probe.

Democrats aim to pass President Biden's economic plans, fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and approve an abortion rights bill in weeks.

Boies Schiller Flexner has experienced a rapid exodus of several top attorneys, many of whom were bothered by purported decisions by the firm's founders.

Manchin's comments come as lawmakers work to approve the budget bill without the support of Republicans.

Regional experts are not all convinced of China's enthusiasm for barreling into the war-torn Central Asian state on its western border.  

U.S. government contracts in Afghanistan fueled a system of mass corruption that engulfed the country and, eventually, doomed its fragile democracy.