Twenty-four million Americans are facing spiking health insurance prices because of expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that Republicans have so far refused to extend.
Lawmakers are divided on the way ahead, with the deadline to sign up for 2026 coverage on Dec. 15.
GOP leaders are faced with competing proposals across the House and Senate but the same political dilemma: Either they extend the subsidies and endorse ObamaCare, which Republicans have long opposed, or they let the subsidies expire ahead of next year's midterms and deal with the electoral fallout. |
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Sharp swings in financial markets have left investors reeling in recent weeks, as questions about a potential artificial intelligence (AI) bubble collide with uncertainty surrounding the Federal Reserve's next interest rate decision. The AI trade has been booming for nearly three years since the release of ChatGPT, but some are beginning to wonder how long this can last before shareholders get antsy for returns on firms' massive multibillion-dollar investments. Meanwhile, investors are searching for clues about whether the Fed will cut rates next month amid a murky economic picture, complicated by missing data from the government shutdown. |
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The Trump administration's data center push is spurring concerns about energy prices and environmental impacts. The administration has embraced data centers, which house the computers and infrastructure used by tech companies, including for artificial intelligence, as well as the AI they power. White House officials argue it's important for the U.S. to win the global "AI race" and outcompete rivals including China in the emerging tech space. |
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President Trump is standing behind his most trusted negotiator, Steve Witkoff, following the leak of a phone call with a senior Russian official, which Ukraine's backers have criticized for what they see as the special envoy's attempts to sabotage American support for Kyiv and broker a deal favorable to Moscow. It's the latest twist over a chaotic week in which the Trump administration's behind-the-scenes dealmaking between Russia and Ukraine has spurred both optimism and questions about progress toward peace. |
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Two West Virginia National Guard members were shot near the White House in what officials called a "targeted attack" on Wednesday, with one injured suspect and in custody. Both Guardsmen are hospitalized in critical condition, FBI Director Kash Patel said at a press conference. He added that the shooting was being investigated by the FBI as an assault on a federal law enforcement officer. |
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that 500 more National Guard troops will be deployed to Washington, D.C., after two National Guard members were shot blocks from the White House on Wednesday. "That's why President Trump has asked me, and I will ask the secretary of the Army to the National Guard to add 500 additional troops, National Guardsmen, to Washington, D.C.," Hegseth told reporters on Wednesday during his trip to the Dominican Republic. "This will only stiffen our resolve to ensure that we make Washington, D.C., safe and beautiful. The drop in crime has been historic. The increase in safety and security has been historic," the Defense secretary added after his meeting with Dominican officials. "But if criminals want to conduct things like this, violence against America's best, we will never back down. President Trump will never back down. That's why the American people elected him." |
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President Trump said Wednesday his administration would review the cases of individuals from Afghanistan who entered the United States during the Biden administration. Trump's announcement came hours after two National Guard troops were shot in Washington, D.C. Trump said the suspected shooter is an Afghan national who entered the country during the Biden administration. "We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden," Trump said in remarks from his Mar-a-Lago property. "And we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country." |
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A panel of federal judges in North Carolina said Wednesday they will allow the state to use its redrawn congressional map, which could allow for one more Republican seat in the House of Representatives. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina unanimously allowed the map in a 57-page ruling. Any appeals will go to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is already seeing a deluge of cases over several other states' new maps, including the redrawn map for Texas. The panel, composed of Republican-appointed judges, argued that the map's opponents "have not made clear" if the redrawn map would "'minimize or cancel out the voting potential' of black North Carolinians." |
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Republican Rep. Glenn Thompson (Pa.), the Congressional Scouting Caucus's House co-chair, called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's proposal to cut ties with Scouting America "nearsighted" in a statement to The Hill. "As co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Scouting Caucus, I can think of no better recruitment tool for our military than the lessons acquired through Scouting," he said. "It would be nearsighted to uproot this decades long partnership." In a draft memo to Congress first reported by NPR, Hegseth proposed cutting ties with Scouting America — formerly known as Boy Scouts of America — and said it has become an organization that attacks "boy-friendly spaces." |
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OPINION | States have the right to set inclusive policies that support access to postsecondary education for all eligible students. The policies under attack are legal and economically sound, no matter what the federal government says. |
OPINION | With the GOP "establishment" now a distant memory, the president has been able to build exactly the sycophantic imperial court he swore would have salvaged his doomed first term. Instead, the American people are watching chaos unfold on a level that seems shocking even for Trump. |
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BY MARIA ABI-HABIB AND HOGLA ENECIA PÉREZ |
The president of the Dominican Republic announced Wednesday that he had authorized the U.S. military to temporarily operate inside restricted areas in the Caribbean country, in an effort to help Washington fight drug trafficking. |
BY LINGLING WEI, BRIAN SCHWARTZ, MERIDITH MCGRAW AND JASON DOUGLAS |
Days after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi outraged China by suggesting a Chinese attack on Taiwan could mobilize a Tokyo military response, Chinese President Xi Jinping spent half of an hourlong phone call with President Trump, people briefed on the matter said, hammering home China's historic claim to the democratic self-governing island as well as Washington and Beijing's joint responsibility to manage the world order. Later the same day, Trump set up a call with Takaichi and advised her not to provoke Beijing on the question of Taiwan's sovereignty, said Japanese officials and an American briefed on the call. The advice from Trump was subtle, and he didn't pressure Takaichi to walk back her comments, those briefed on the calls said. |
Black Friday may no longer be the retail bacchanalia of years past, when the promise of one-time bargains caused people to leave Thanksgiving tables for malls where some customers got into fistfights over toys or TVs. But the event still has enough enthusiasts to make it the biggest shopping day in the U.S. |
China took a veiled swipe at the US for plans to change nuclear policies and warned that maintaining large arsenals increases the risk of conflict, after Washington said it would match its rivals by resuming atomic weapons tests. |
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