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Recent executions of four democracy activists in Myanmar have reenergized efforts to get the U.S. and other governments to impose further sanctions on its army-controlled government

WASHINGTON — The House and Senate are concluding a surprisingly productive streak despite deep-rooted partisanship and bitter acrimony between Democrats and Republicans.

WASHINGTON — As political reaction reached a boil over the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Mitch McConnell was standing in Eastern Kentucky attending to the aftermath of calamitous flooding there.

Jerry Ensminger sat in the balcony of the U.S. Senate chamber watching a vote that had begun to feel like a pipe dream.

For much of the past year, cracks in Donald Trump’s political support have been growing: dissatisfied Republican primary voters began to consider new prospects, GOP donors grappled with damaging revelations uncovered by the Jan. 6 committee, and several party leaders pondered challenging Trump for the party’s 2024 nomination. But after…

WASHINGTON — For many months, Mitch McConnell expressed optimism about the favorable political conditions that could deliver Senate control to Republicans this November.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he'll be relentless in pushing for federal assistance in flood-ravaged eastern parts of the state

The 12 months since the chaotic end to the US war in Afghanistan haven't been easy for Joe Biden. The new president was flying high early in the summer of 2021, the American electorate largely approving of Biden's performance and giving him high marks for his handling of the economy…

The nearly 12 months since the chaotic end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan haven’t been easy for Joe Biden