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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In a close New Jersey gubernatorial race, Democratic U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican former state legislator Jack Ciattarelli met for their second and final debate, ...

President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting on the ninth day of a federal government shutdown. PolitiFact fact-checked his statements about ending seven wars, protests in Portland, pregnant women ...

There is no mention of Coca-Cola as a sponsor on the NFL players union website. Instead, Coca-Cola’s chief competitor, PepsiCo, is on the list. PepsiCo sponsored the Super Bowl halftime shows from ...

"Yesterday we learned that the FBI tapped my phone … tapped Lindsey Graham’s phone, tapped Marsha Blackburn’s phone, tapped five other phones of United States senators," Hawley said Oct. 7 during a ...

Forty states and Washington, D.C., expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, making adults ages 19 to 64, without dependent children and with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level, ...

Democrats also are not seeking funding for free abortions. Federal law prohibits federal funds to be used for abortions except in cases or rape, incest or to save the life of the pregnant woman. The ...

In 2013, then-businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump shared his vision on Fox News about the role a president should play in a shutdown: "You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole ...

"Portland is burning to the ground, it’s insurrectionists all over the place," Trump told reporters Oct. 5 before heading to a celebration of the U.S. Navy, echoing his previous statements. "It’s ...

Republicans are seeking a bill to temporarily extend federal spending at current levels without any add-ons. Democrats are pushing to extend expiring subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans.

Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of Burton, Michigan, was a former U.S. Marine and Iraq War veteran. His Sept. 28 ambush on the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in Grand Blanc Township left four ...

On at least a dozen occasions when Joe Biden was president — including in speeches to military academy graduates and Medal of Honor winners, at Veterans Day observances and to rank-and-file ...