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President Obama said today that a debt deal with Congress needs to be devised within the next 10 days and will meet with top lawmakers at the White House tonight. Aides aid that the president will make one last push for major deficit reduction deals.

Republicans tried to send a direct message to President Barack Obama during his first-ever Twitter town hall by crashing the event with a flurry of comments on the social networking site.

Today is the Fourth of July, which marks the celebration of the United States' 236th birthday. This day marks the attainment of freedom from the Great Britain and the emergence of a sovereign country.

It was creativity, then confidence, and now aggression in Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's political attacks against President Barack Obama.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set a special election for Sept. 13 to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, in Congress. Coinciding with state primaries, six vacant seats in the state assembly are also up for grabs.

In an attempt to put it all on the table, the U.S. Senate's top Republican invited President Obama to a GOP lunch at the Capitol to discuss the ongoing dispute over the debt ceiling and related issues, but the White House on Thursday declined the invitation.

If President Barack Obama was hoping that his scolding of Republican lawmakers on Wednesday would spur action to the stalled debt talks, the GOP response made clear that the gulf between the two sides is larger than ever.

President Obama scolded lawmakers Wednesday for failing to reach a budget deal, and used his daughters as an example of how to handle pressure and deadlines.

Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, is trying to insert himself back into politics, calling power brokers and would-be candidates for his old seat, hoping they’ll let him play a role in choosing his own successor, the New York Post reported.

The spiraling gun violence in Mexico is largely fuelled by weapons produced in the U.S., according to a report from the U.S. Congress.

President Barack Obama became the latest Democratic leader to voice an opinion on whether Rep. Anthony Weiner should remain in office or leave, saying in an interview to air Tuesday that if he were the congressman I would resign.

Representative Anthony Weiner, who is caught in a worsening sexting scandal, is finally thinking about stepping down, a remarkable change in stance over the weekend, it has been reported.

While Representative Anthony Weiner continues to refuse resigning his post, despite being entangled in scandal because of sexually explicit text messages he said he exchanged with women over the past three years, the research side of Congress has circulated a report on some of the detriments of text messaging, including a primer on sexting, the New York Times reported.

Rep. Weiner isn't the only politician whose been wrapped in scandal.

Congressional leaders withheld any support for Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY after he admitted sending lewd photos to a Seattle woman and saying he had 'inappropriate' online relationships with six women in total.

At a press conference on Monday, Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY admitted that one of the women whom he had corresponded with online was Megan Broussard, 26, a single mother from Texas.

House Republicans crafted legislation today that would authorize the U.S. military's continued involvement in the NATO-led campaign in Libya, heading off a rising wave of dissent from lawmakers seeking an end to the conflict.

Democrat Kathy Hochul was sworn in as the newest member of Congress Wednesday, pledging to work with the GOP to solve the nation's problems.

Members of the House Judiciary Committee said they were skeptical that AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile would benefit consumers, and that they feared it would mean higher prices for wireless service.

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that 22-year-old shooter Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people and seriously wounded Congress woman Gabrielle Giffords, was mentally unfit to stand trial. The ruling came after staff psychologist at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners and a forensic psychiatrist certified that the Arizona killer was not mentally stable.

The latest round of deficit talks between the White House and Congress, Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday, the negotiations are focusing on getting at least 1trillion dollars in the spending cuts.