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The big annual conservative conference in D.C. is already under way. Check out who is speaking and at what time.

U.S. lawmakers are sharing in the excitement over Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's election as the new pope.

The Violence Against Women Act has been reauthorized. But nine Republicans did not even want to consider the GOP-sponsored version of the bill.

Education, infrastructure, manufacturing, and renewable energy will be the four major themes of the president's annual address.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor emphasized that Republicans care about more than just deficit reduction.

Experts say House Speaker Boehner no longer fears his party's fading tea party faction and may now get more party unity on deals.

House Republican leaders Friday announced that next week they would seek a three-month extension of federal borrowing, tied to the passage of a federal budget.

The Log Cabin Republicans ran a full-page ad in the Washington Post denouncing Obama's choice of Hagel for secretary of defense. The group cites Hagel's "dismal" record on gay rights.

Rep. John Boehner was voted by his colleagues into another term as House speaker on Thursday despite receiving harsh criticism from some conservatives over his handling of the deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.

House Speaker John Boehner, under furious attack from fellow Republicans, abruptly reversed course Wednesday afternoon and set a timetable to approve $60 billion in Superstorm Sandy relief.

It's the first income tax rate increase in 20 years, and it will avert the worst of "the cliff" - but debt ceiling/spending battles loom.

The U.S. House passed the tax/budget bill Tuesday night, enabling the United States to avert the worst of the fiscal cliff.

The U.S. House announced that there will not be a budget vote Mon night, ensuring that the U.S. will go over the cliff for at least 1 day.

President Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders from both parties at the White House Friday afternoon in a bid to revive negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, with three days left before its deadline.

In their latest move in the "fiscal cliff" sparring, House Republicans announced Tuesday night that they will pass their own tax bill as a backup plan.

As the president works to get the corporate execs' support, Republicans want him to put another fiscal cliff offer on the table.

Frederick Humphries had experience foiling terrorists plots and followed his dogged instincts in the Paula Broadwell investigation.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had no advance warning of the David Petraeus scandal, she said Sunday.

The political fallout from CIA Director David Petraeus’ resignation only looks to be spreading up with the news an FBI whistleblower alerted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Obama will still be wrestling with a Republican House, as its Majority Leader Eric Cantor reminded him, quoting an old Reagan maxim.

While Paul Ryan will not be the Vice President of the United States of America, he will be continuing his political career. Ryan won re-election in his home state of Wisconsin.