BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND AL WEAVER |
Congressional Republicans are halfway through a critical four-week stretch for passing President Trump's legislative priorities — and they are behind the eight-ball.
On the House side, leaders are struggling to find consensus on a host of hot-button issues, headlined by Medicaid cuts and the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap. Top lawmakers are looking to advance key parts of the legislation next week, even as they haven't been able to unveil legislation yet and their members remain far apart on the crucial questions. |
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) is taking steps to build his national profile even as he seeks to tamp down speculation that he could run for the White House next cycle. The governor, who in early chatter was discussed as a running mate for former Vice President Kamala Harris on the 2024 Democratic ticket, told ABC's "The View" last week that he's "not running" for the White House in 2028. |
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Educators are reaching into their toolbox in an effort to adapt their instruction to a world where students can use ChatGPT to pull out a five-page essay in under an hour. Teachers are working to make artificial intelligence (AI) a force for good in the classroom instead of an easy way to cheat as they balance teaching the new technology with honing students' critical thinking skills. |
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BY JOSEPH CHOI, NATHANIEL WEIXEL AND ALEJANDRA O'CONNELL DOMENECH |
President Trump's second choice for U.S. surgeon general has set off a wave of infighting within the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.
Casey Means is a prominent health influencer and ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but she is seen as insufficiently skeptical of vaccines by some of his prominent supporters — and a "total crack pot" by others in Trump World. |
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's move to ax the size of the U.S. military's top ranks has triggered concerns of a political purge. Hegseth, who on Monday directed significant cuts to the U.S. military's senior-most positions, has already fired several top leaders with no explanation. |
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Republicans typically love President Trump — no matter what he does. But a growing chorus of those supporters has quietly been expressing dissatisfaction with Trump's handling of tariffs, including his most recent threat on foreign-made films. |
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Comedian Bill Maher shook hands with Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair David Hogg on Friday, after the operative delivered his take on why the Democratic Party lost a chunk of young voters in the 2024 presidential election. "What I think happened last election is younger men, they would rather vote for somebody … who they don't completely agree with — [that] they don't feel judged by — than somebody who they do agree with that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they're going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated," Hogg said Friday during an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said House Democrats could be arrested after a Friday visit to Delaney Hall, a New Jersey detention center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Three Democratic New Jersey members of Congress- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D), Rob Menendez (D) and LaMonica McIver (D) — tried to get access to the Delaney Hall ICE detention center along with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D), who was arrested for trespassing, causing shock and outrage from fellow party members. |
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), alongside Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), welcomed Tufts University Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk back to Boston after she was detained for nearly two months over a campus op-ed that condemned the war in Gaza. The lawmakers spoke about Öztürk's return at the city's Logan Airport on Saturday, after a federal judge ordered she be released from a Louisiana facility where she was held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. |
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OPINION | Reflecting on the White House visit by newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, I was struck by what President Trump had posted on Truth Social just prior to Carney's arrival. Trump posted, in part, "Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things? We don't need their Cars, we don't need their Energy, we don't need their Lumber, we don't need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us!" |
OPINION | Mark Zuckerberg recently took to Instagram to boast that nearly a billion people now use Meta AI across the company's platforms. To celebrate, he announced the launch of a new standalone app, encouraging users to "Check it out!" It sounded innocuous, almost charming, as if he were discussing a playful new feature. But make no mistake: this wasn't just a product release. It was a warning shot from a man who now has his hands firmly on the wheel of reality. |
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New developments in the harrowing four-day conflict, along with entrenched religious nationalism on each side, could signal more frequent battles ahead. |
Although inventory has been rising, high home prices and mortgage rates are putting off buyers during the prime selling season. |
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says the administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally challenge their detention by the government. |
BY CHICO HARLAN, SAMANTHA SCHMIDT, KIM BELLWARE AND BIANCA PADRÓ OCASIO |
Just over two years ago, Robert Prevost had been one of the church's 5,400 bishops — a role with no global visibility. Then Pope Francis selected him for a new role, fast-tracking the career of the man who'd become his successor. |
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