Author: Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY

Washington locals didn’t miss the opportunity to mark former President Donald Trump’s return to the nation’s capital, including with drink specials.

A judge dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation case against CNN, in which the former president alleged the news outlet associated him with Adolf Hitler.

Rep. Cori Bush yelled “your bills are racist” in the House as Rep. Steve Scalise criticized Democrats in the lower chamber.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the oldest member of Congress at 90, mistakenly started reading a statement before she had to be told to vote.

Rep. Becca Balint introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “a megaphone for conspiracy theories and hate speech.”

GOP presidential candidates are defying an unofficial rule in Washington that lawmakers’ families, especially minors, are off limits to conflict.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team contacted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in its investigation into former President Donald Trump.

Georgia’s Supreme Court rejected a request from former President Trump to bar officials from prosecuting him over efforts after the 2020 election.

Organizations advocating for Jewish and Asian people criticized Robert F. Kennedy after he spread a conspiracy theory about the groups and COVID-19.