BY EMILY BROOKS AND AL WEAVER |
Frustrations are growing as Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-N.Y.) wait to be confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations could stretch until April due to the House's ultra-slim majority. Stefanik is facing a unique problem. Despite numerous international crises facing the U.S. and UN, she is considered more valuable in the House as lawmakers try to cobble together Trump's agenda. That was especially the case for a dramatic Tuesday vote on the House's budget resolution, when her presence was crucial. |
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BY BRETT SAMUELS AND ALEX GANGITANO |
Efforts to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine were left in tatters following President Trump's confrontational White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which erupted into one of the most remarkable Oval Office scenes in years. Zelensky arrived at the White House on Friday with the hopes of signing a critical minerals deal with the U.S. and securing assurances from Trump as he seeks to broker peace between Kyiv and Moscow. But negotiations ended shortly after they started, with Trump calling Zelensky "disrespectful" and saying he was "not ready for peace." |
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An astonishing scene played out in the Oval Office on Friday as President Trump and Vice President Vance got into a shouting match with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Amid angry crosstalk, Trump told Zelensky "without us, you don't have any cards" and "you're gambling with World War III." Vance, for his part, accused Zelensky of being "disrespectful." |
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wouldn't apologize for the meeting with President Trump, which erupted into a remarkable and tense spat, arguing that the situation was bad for both countries. Fox News's Bret Baier asked the Ukrainian president Friday evening if he would apologize for the meeting, which was expected to result in signing a minerals deal but instead went off the rails, and he denied any wrongdoing. |
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize to President Trump over Friday's heated Oval Office showdown, expressing doubt over whether the Ukrainian leader wants to forge a peace agreement to end the war in Eastern Europe.
The country's top diplomat told CNN's Kaitlan Collins the Kyiv leader should "apologize for turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became. There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic. Look, this thing went off the rails." |
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) told Secretary of State Marco Rubio to "grow a pair" after the former senator defended President Trump after his heated meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington. After Friday's public spat between Zelensky, Trump and Vice President Vance, Rubio thanked the commander-in-chief for "standing up for America in a way that no President has ever had the courage to do before. Thank you for putting America First. America is with you!" |
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Suspense over whether former Vice President Kamala Harris will jump into California's 2028 gubernatorial race is effectively freezing the field in her home state as Democrats weigh potential successors for term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). Harris has shrugged off the chatter and has yet to signal her post-White House plans, but she's nevertheless topping early polls, and her potential to take the frontrunner slot looms over other candidates. |
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BY RACHEL FRAZIN AND ZACK BUDRYK |
The Trump administration has made drastic cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that threaten to impact weather forecasting and other key services provided by the agency.
In the wake of the wave of dismissals this week, lawmakers and former officials raised concerns about potential damage to services ranging from extreme weather responses to efforts to prevent objects from colliding in space. |
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday released a policy prohibiting public comments during his department's rulemaking process, ending more than 50 years of the public's involvement in crafting his department's rules.
In the policy statement placed in the Federal Register, Kennedy's office appeared to argue that rescinding the policy goes back to the original intent of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). |
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The FBI is returning the property seized during the 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago to President Trump, according to the White House. "The FBI is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them onto Air Force One," White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement on Friday. |
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OPINION | Washington policymakers are looking to modernize labor laws, and some Democrats and Republicans are finding common ground. Members of both parties agree on the need to support the surging self-employed workforce through portable benefits — those tied to an individual rather than to his or her employer. Indeed, two weeks ago, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) introduced a bill legalizing the flow of benefits to all workers, even those outside of traditional, W-2 employment arrangements. Republicans including Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Democrats including Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) have offered support for similar ideas. |
OPINION | When wildfires spread, hurricanes hit or tornadoes tear through communities, local broadcasters are the first and most reliable source of emergency information. When decisions are made during local school board or city council meetings, local stations keep you informed. They provide the accountability for bad actors, and good news about our neighbors — informing our days and bringing us together. Can you imagine your community without this local voice? |
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BY ANNIE KARNI AND LUKE BROADWATER |
The night before Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defied the hard-right wing of his party and brought up a bill to send more than $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, he spent a mostly sleepless night in a luxury hotel suite overlooking the Potomac River, bracing for a mutiny that would end his speakership.
"He was in turmoil," his wife, Kelly Johnson, recalled of that night last spring, in an interview conducted last fall. "We assumed we were done. I was saying, 'Well, it's been great. It's been a nice, but short little ride.' We thought we were going home." |
The U.S. economy has proved pessimists wrong so many times, it's tempting to think nothing can stop it.
President Trump's first-month policy blitz is putting that resilience to the test.
It's far too early to say if cracks are forming in the overall economy, which grew at a healthy 2.3 percent annual clip in the fourth quarter. The unemployment rate dipped to 4 percent in January, low by historical standards. |
The first time he spoke to Volodymyr Zelensky, President Trump tried to pressure Ukraine's new leader to dig up dirt on then-presidential nominee Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election. It was a 2019 phone call that eventually sparked an impeachment.
On Friday, a meeting in the Oval Office that started out with cordialities turned heated at the end, with Vice President Vance telling Zelensky to show more gratitude toward Trump, before the president himself began shouting.
"You're gambling with the lives of millions of people," Trump berated Zelensky. "You're gambling with World War III." |
BY JACOB BOGAGE, JEFF STEIN, MARIA SACCHETTI AND LISA REIN |
Internal Revenue Service leaders rejected a recent request from immigration enforcement officials to divulge the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, rebuffing a Trump administration attempt to leverage the tax service to assist a sweeping immigration crackdown.
In a memo obtained by The Washington Post, Department of Homeland Security authorities asked the IRS on Thursday to connect the names of potentially undocumented immigrants with the people's last known addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. |
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