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President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Congress should get rid of the debt ceiling. Here's what it is and what that would mean.

IRS leadership on Thursday announced that the agency has recovered $4.7 billion in back taxes and proceeds from a variety of crimes.

President-elect Donald Trump's daughter-in-law is widely viewed as a candidate to fill Marco Rubio's Senate seat.

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson has been arrested on federal public corruption charges, officials said Friday.

Many Senate Republicans want the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz to be released. Gaetz is a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump.

The House speaker Johnson told "Fox News Sunday" that "we'll have to see how this develops" when asked whether he'd let Trump bypass the usual Senate confirmation process.

Kennedy is Trump's pick for health secretary, but he has a history of spreading misinformation about a range of issues.

Johnson said that it would be a "terrible breach of protocol" if the committee released the report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House this week.

The Dallas City Council voted Wednesday to repeal a portion of a 1988 ordinance that provided the language used by a group in a police-centered charter amendment that Dallas voters narrowly approved last week.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Stephen Miller as his deputy chief of staff for policy at the White House, a source with knowledge of the transition team's plans said Monday, NBC News reports.