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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died Saturday after a day of quail hunting at a luxury resort in West Texas.

President Barack Obama presented a budget to Congress on Tuesday that if enacted would add nearly $10 trillion to the national debt, according to the White House’s projections.

The Obama administration has revived the maligned illegal immigrant ‘catch-and-release’ policy of the Bush years, ordering Border Patrol agents not to bother arresting and deporting many new illegal immigrants, the head of the agents’ labor union revealed Thursday.

The White House on Thursday announced its latest plan to address climate change by levying a $10 per-barrel tax on crude oil.

House Democrats sustained President Obama’s veto of an Obamacare repeal Tuesday, defeating the GOP’s deepest salvo yet against the health care law but delivering a rallying cry to conservative Republicans in a pivotal election year.

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a Republican-led bill targeting the landmark nuclear agreement with Iran.

The national debt hit $19 trillion for the first time ever on Friday, and came in at $19.012 trillion.

Hundreds of badges, credentials, cell phones and guns belonging to Department of Homeland Security employees have been lost or stolen in recent years — raising serious security concerns about the potential damage these missing items could do in the wrong hands.

A Harris County grand jury on Monday indicted the videographers behind undercover recordings of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston and cleared the women’s health provider of any wrongdoing.

While the snow piled up in the Washington region, the ocean raged on the coast. For three high tides, the storm known as Snowzilla thrust a hurricane-like surge of water into the coast, producing historic flooding.

A blizzard that has paralyzed much of the U.S. East Coast intensified on Saturday, bringing Washington to a standstill and forcing the closure of roads, bridges and tunnels into New York until Sunday morning.

The Supreme Court’s decision to review the legality of President Obama’s executive action allowing millions of illegal immigrants to remain in the country could put a damper on some of the White House’s plans for a host of new executive actions this year.

President Obama will include a new wage insurance scheme in his budget next month that would provide supplemental payments to workers who lose their jobs and end up taking new ones at lower salaries.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the medical ethics group Center for Medical Progress.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough pushed back against the notion his president is played out in the wake of his last State of the Union address, promising ‘audacious executive action’ in Barack Obama’s final year in office.

Leading senators on Monday petitioned multiple Obama administration agencies to stop stonewalling a congressional investigation into the immigration histories of at least 113 foreign-born individuals implicated in terrorist operations after legally entering the United States, according to a copy of the letters.

President Obama on Friday vetoed legislation to repeal most of his signature health care law, saying the bill would do ‘harm’ to millions of Americans.

United States Research Farms are moving ahead with attempts to grow human organs inside living animals such as pigs and sheep.