Senate Republicans are pushing intensely to nab the five additional Democratic votes they need to unlock their bill to end the government shutdown.
Republicans have shown little willingness to negotiate on the top Democratic priority — an extension of enhanced health care subsidies — as part of any funding deal, and instead are attempting to work directly to pick off the requisite support.
The GOP needs eight Democratic votes to advance the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) and three members of the Democratic caucus sided with them on Tuesday's vote.
But Democrats have shown few signs of budging since the Tuesday tally. In two votes since, no other senators jumped aboard, with discussions toward a deal on those tax credits seemingly hitting a wall. |
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The anti-abortion movement's patience with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is wearing thin following the agency's recent approval of a second generic version of mifepristone, one of two drugs taken for a medication abortion.
President Trump repeatedly pledged during the campaign last year that he would leave abortion policy to the states, but anti-abortion advocates and lawmakers have been pushing him to go further and sharply restrict the availability of mifepristone.
So far, that hasn't happened. |
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is canceling previously scheduled votes next week, as Republicans look to force Democrats into accepting a GOP-crafted "clean" bill to end the government shutdown.
The move, according to GOP sources, is intended to keep pressure on Senate Democrats to vote for continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open for another seven weeks. Democrats have repeatedly rejected that bill as they make demands on extending health care subsidies and other issues, voting it down again on Friday. |
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President Trump welcomed Hamas's response Friday to his proposal for ending the war in the Gaza Strip, turning pressure on Israel to accept a ceasefire.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said he believes Hamas is ready "for a lasting PEACE" before calling on Israel to end its bombing of the enclave. |
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday fired Navy chief of staff Jon Harrison, delivering a blow to the insider who helped rewire internal protocols to fit the vision of the Trump administration's defense agenda.
Harrison's removal comes after the confirmation of Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao, whom President Trump appointed to serve as the second-most senior civilian under Navy Secretary John Phelan. |
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GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge handed down a just more than eight year prison sentence Friday for the person who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in 2022, far less than prosecutors' request of at least 30 years.
Sophie Roske, 29, hoped to kill the conservative justice before he could overturn Roe v. Wade, spending weeks researching and purchasing weapons. |
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A federal worker union sued the Trump administration on Friday due to automatic email responses from employees at the Education Department that blame Democrats for the government shutdown.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) represented by the Democracy Forward and Public Citizen Litigation Group sent a cease and desist letter, and also filed a lawsuit against the Education Department over the political statement issued in staff email responses. |
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito touched on two lightning rod cases Friday in explaining the pitfalls and promises of originalism.
The conservative justice mentioned the Obergefell ruling that legalized same-sex marriage and the sweeping presidential immunity ruling the court handed down last year as he opined about how adherents to his legal theory of choice can go astray. |
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A Georgia judge on Friday set a two-week deadline for a state agency to assign a new prosecutor to the 2020 election interference case against President Trump and his allies, or it will be dismissed.
The terse notice from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee comes after Georgia's top court last month ended Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's bid to continue prosecuting the case. |
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OPINION | Sir Keir Starmer has been prime minister of the United Kingdom for less than 15 months. Yet he has the air of a beleaguered and embattled leader: His net favorability rating is currently minus-50 — yes, you read that right — and he is one of the democratic world's most unpopular leaders with his own voters.
On the face of it, this collapse of support is baffling. Labour won the July 2024 general election with a gargantuan majority in the House of Commons of 172 seats, the fourth-largest for a single party in modern British history. But the foundations were shallow: Although 211 more Labour members of Parliament were returned than at the previous election, the party's share of the vote rose by only 1.6 percent. Only one-third of the electorate backed Labour, more disenchanted and tired of the Conservatives than enthused by Starmer's alternative. |
OPINION | Here's the thing about Donald Trump and Project 2025: he told the American people one thing on the campaign trail, and now he's doing the exact opposite in office.
Flashback to the 2024 election. Trump was asked repeatedly about Project 2025 — a 900-page conservative blueprint written by some of his closest allies. It outlined a sweeping agenda: slashing federal agencies, expanding executive power, banning abortion medication, gutting civil rights enforcement, deporting immigrants on a massive scale, and even politicizing the Census. In short, it was a roadmap for remaking American life. |
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President Trump has embarked on a legally dubious campaign to weaponize the federal budget during a contentious government shutdown, halting more than $27 billion in approved funding in a bid to punish Democratic-led cities and states.
Rather than broker a legislative truce or seek to ameliorate the fallout of a costly fiscal stalemate, the president has leveraged the crisis to exact revenge on rivals, slash federal spending and pressure Democrats into accepting his political demands. |
BY JASON DOUGLAS AND JUNKO FUKUTOME |
Japan is set to have its first female prime minister, a staunch conservative who wants to borrow and spend more to rev up Japan's economy and says she's willing to reopen a hard-won trade deal with the U.S.
Sanae Takaichi, 64 years old, was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Saturday, in a party poll that followed the September resignation of her predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba. Though the LDP lacks a clear majority in Parliament, she is expected to win enough support from lawmakers to succeed Ishiba as prime minister later this month. |
Hamas says it is willing to return all remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza and the bodies of the dead in accordance with President Donald Trump's peace plan.
Under the plan, Hamas would release the remaining 48 hostages — around 20 of them believed to be alive — within three days. It would also give up power and disarm.
In delivering its response to Trump's plan, the militant group said it was ready to release the hostages and give up power but made no reference to disarming and made clear there was still much more to negotiate. |
President Donald Trump is stretching the definition of national security to cover common products such as kitchen cabinets and roller skates, as he imposes an array of tariffs that he says are needed to rebuild the industrial foundation of a strong military.
The president announced new taxes on imported timber, lumber and wood products, citing "National Security purposes" in a social media post. He also has launched Commerce Department investigations that are almost certain to produce fresh tariffs on foreign-made medical devices and industrial robotics. A separate national security tariff on heavy trucks was scheduled to take effect on Wednesday but has yet to be finalized. |
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