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Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that he had a relationship with a former staffer who later died by suicide, but alleged the controversy that has engulfed the situation is “about power and money.” “I made a mistake, and I had a lapse in judgment, and there was a

Washington — Sen. Steve Daines of Montana has decided not to run for reelection, adding to the growing list of Republicans in Congress who want out.  Daines did not give a specific reason for his retirement, but said he had wrestled with the decision for months. He called his time in Congress “the greatest honor

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Wednesday that Israel and the U.S. did not have “much of a choice” but to “take action” and strike Iran.  He also indicated that Israel had intelligence showing Iran wants to expand its arsenal of long-range missiles from 2,000 to 20,000.  “When you know that they have invested all their

Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy of Montana assisted several police officers in physically ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran. The protester — Brian McGinnis, who describes himself as a Marine veteran running as a Green Party candidate in North Carolina’s Senate

Jonathan Munafo is the latest pardoned U.S. Capitol riot defendant to again run afoul of the law.  Court records reviewed by CBS News said Munafo was arrested Tuesday in Richmond, Virginia, where he was found allegedly violating supervised release conditions in a federal threat case.   In a court filing Wednesday, the Justice Department said

Companies in the U.S. that paid tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court in February are legally entitled to refunds, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.  Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York said that U.S. importers were “entitled to benefit” from the high court’s February 20 decision that President