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The leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee will travel to Ukraine next week amid signs that tension with Russia is increasing.

As Rockwall Rep. Ralph Hall, in his fourth decade in Congress, faces his stiffest challenge yet in a runoff next month, he's getting a nearly unanimous show of support from his fellow Texas Republicans.

A group of lawmakers sent a letter to U.S. News & World Report this week urging the magazine to include information about campus safety in its highly influential college rankings.

Chairman Joe Lieberman of Connecticut leads a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept.

Texas EquuSearch volunteers are gearing up for their next search, this time for a 31-year-old man who went missing more than a week ago in rural Louisiana.

At a Tuesday hearing, members of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation and trade debated the appropriate response to the continuing terrorist threat, agreeing that some sort of military action will be key.

Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Tuesday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was in the process of looking at the use of domestic drones.

Has your doctor asked you about orca bites? Or burns you suffered while water skiing? What about an attack by an angry macaw? Those are just a sampling of the 185,000 injury and condition entries listed on a new government coding system set to be enforced in 2015 - another layer of bureaucracy heaped on physicians and providers, many already ... (more)

Congressional leaders are calling on U.S. government officials to be more active in solving the case of Kate Puzey, the Peace Corps volunteer who was brutally murdered in the West African country of Benin five years ago.

Republican legislators expressed their condolences for the Fort Hood shooting on Twitter.

HOUSE PANEL TALKS OIL EXPORTS: The House Foreign Affairs Committee's trade panel meets this afternoon for a hearing on the U.S. crude oil export ban.

Earlier this month, Congressman Ted Poe introduced a bill that would require the Department of Energy to expedite and approve exports of natural gas to Ukraine and other nations.

House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have just reached an agreement on a temporary, 12-month Medicare "doc fix" that would block a 24 percent cut in Medicare physician payment, which was scheduled to go into effect on April 1. It would also keep Medicare physician rates flat until March 2015.

More needs to be done to prosecute those who purchase children and teens for sex, lawmakers in both parties agreed Wednesday.

U.S. Rep Ted Poe of Texas says he has launched a probe into whether the State Department and the Government Accountability Office buried information about Russia's noncompliance with signed nuclear treaties.

Speaking before the eighth annual Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona this week, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher delivered a keynote speech where he defended the right of his agents to use deadly force in self-defense.