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FILE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is flanked by aides as she returns to the Senate Judiciary Committee following a more than two-month absence as she was being treated for a case of shingles, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Feinstein's office said Thursday, May 18, that she is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles virus that can paralyze part of the face, and that she contracted encephalitis while recovering from the virus earlier this year. (AP Photo/J.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s return to Capitol has been closely watched. Can she still do her job?

FILE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is flanked by aides as she returns to the Senate Judiciary Committee following a more than two-month absence as she was being treated for a case of shingles, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Feinstein's office said Thursday, May 18, that she is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles virus that can paralyze part of the face, and that she contracted encephalitis while recovering from the virus earlier this year. (AP Photo/J.

May 19, 2023, 2:27pm Politics

For seven months in 1988, Joe Biden was absent from the Senate, recovering from operations to repair brain aneurysms. Read story

FBI broke rules in scouring foreign intelligence on Jan. 6 riot, racial justice protests, court says

May 19, 2023, 1:05pm Politics

FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and racial justice protests in 2020, according to a heavily blacked-out court order released Friday. Read story

FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut, an eastern city where fierce battles against Russian forces have been taking place, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 15, 2023. For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive. Now summer is just weeks away. While Russia and Ukraine are focused on an intense battle for Bakhmut, the Ukrainian spring offensive has yet to begin.

Why Ukraine’s spring offensive still hasn’t begun — with summer just weeks away

FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut, an eastern city where fierce battles against Russian forces have been taking place, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 15, 2023. For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive. Now summer is just weeks away. While Russia and Ukraine are focused on an intense battle for Bakhmut, the Ukrainian spring offensive has yet to begin.

May 19, 2023, 8:35am Politics

For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive. Read story

FILE- A boat motors between flooded homes after heavy rains inundating the region, in Hammond, La., on Aug. 13, 2016. A new study Thursday, May 18, 2023, finds the natural burst of El Nino warming that changes weather worldwide is far costlier with longer-lasting expenses than experts had thought, averaging trillions of dollars in damage.

El Ninos are far costlier than once thought, in the trillions, study says — and one’s brewing now

FILE- A boat motors between flooded homes after heavy rains inundating the region, in Hammond, La., on Aug. 13, 2016. A new study Thursday, May 18, 2023, finds the natural burst of El Nino warming that changes weather worldwide is far costlier with longer-lasting expenses than experts had thought, averaging trillions of dollars in damage.

May 19, 2023, 6:00am Latest News

The natural burst of El Nino warming that changes weather worldwide is far costlier with longer-lasting expenses than experts had thought, averaging trillions of dollars in damage, a new study found. Read story

Former FBI employees testify on GOP politicization claims after losing clearances

May 18, 2023, 5:55pm Nation & World

Former FBI employees accused the bureau of politicization in congressional testimony Thursday, a day after the agency disclosed that two of the men had seen their security clearances revoked over concerns about how their views of the Capital attack on Jan. 6, 2021, affected their work. Read story

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is assisted to a wheelchair by staff as she returns to the Senate after a more than two-month absence, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The 89-year-old California Democrat was out longer than expected which has slowed the push to confirm President Joe Biden's judicial nominees. (AP Photo/J.

Feinstein’s office details previously unknown complications from shingles illness

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is assisted to a wheelchair by staff as she returns to the Senate after a more than two-month absence, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The 89-year-old California Democrat was out longer than expected which has slowed the push to confirm President Joe Biden's judicial nominees. (AP Photo/J.

May 18, 2023, 4:02pm Politics

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office said Thursday that she is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles virus that can paralyze part of the face, and that she contracted encephalitis while recovering from the virus earlier this year. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks on the debt limit during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Valhalla, N.Y.

Biden campaign sees multiple ‘viable pathways’ to 2024 election win

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks on the debt limit during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Valhalla, N.Y.

May 18, 2023, 2:14pm Politics

President Joe Biden ‘s reelection campaign is vowing to hold the states that won him the White House in 2020 but also compete in places it lost like North Carolina and increasingly Republican-dominated Florida, providing what it says are “a number of viable pathways to the 270 electoral votes” needed… Read story

White House expected to withdraw federal appeals court nomination, in judicial defeat for Biden

May 18, 2023, 12:00pm Politics

In a rare judicial defeat for President Joe Biden, the White House is expected to soon withdraw the nomination of Michael Delaney for the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a person familiar with his confirmation process. Read story

At least 80 calls to National Archives since 2010 about mishandling of classified information

May 17, 2023, 3:51pm Nation & World

The National Archives has been called more than 80 times in the past decade-plus about classified materials found in the papers of former members of Congress and other U.S. officials, according to newly released congressional testimony. Read story

State Department offers Republican lawmaker a chance to view Afghanistan dissent cable

May 17, 2023, 3:51pm Nation & World

The State Department offered Wednesday to allow the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to view a classified cable from U.S. diplomats in Kabul sent shortly before the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Read story