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House Speaker John Boehner is proposing a six-week debt ceiling increase to his Republican caucus. If adopted, it would take away the immediate threat to financial markets.

Lawmakers have less than two weeks of legislative days to head off a government shutdown, raise the nation's borrowing limit and provide financial assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

Republican struggles between establishment-backed conservatives and Tea Party rivals are a dominant feature this election season. Georgia had a crowded GOP race that is headed to a July runoff.

The court is expected to render a decision that will determine the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's guarantee that no-cost prescription contraception be part of most health insurance plans.

Our resident chef Kathy Gunst shares recipes for chimichurri, fried parsley leaves, a parsley soup and more.

From Egypt to the Philippines, the president's praise of despotic and brutal leaders is raising eyebrows. He also has potential business conflicts in or related to all of the countries.

Members of the Writers Guild of America vote Tuesday on a proposed contract with studios. Renee Montagne talks with Carter Bays, executive producer of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, about how fast new episodes can make it to air.

Megyn Kelly is out from the Today show, an NBC News spokesperson said Friday. This comes after she made offensive remarks earlier this week about blackface Halloween costumes.

The stack of recent DVD releases of old TV series keeps getting higher. Fresh Air critic David Bianculli picks four that he believes are the TV equivalent of a fun summer read.

The FBI reports that murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults were up in the first half of last year over the same time in 2014. The Justice Department calls overall rates historically low.