President Trump is returning from a Middle East trip where he was feted by foreign leaders to find his legislative agenda on shaky ground on Capitol Hill.
Republican lawmakers are squabbling over the details of the massive reconciliation package that contains key pieces of Trump's agenda on taxes, border funding and spending.
On Friday, four conservative lawmakers tanked a key committee vote, stalling the legislation and leaving a slew of the president's campaign promises in limbo. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS, MYCHAEL SCHNELL, NATHANIEL WEIXEL AND RACHEL FRAZIN |
House Republicans are working to give their "big beautiful bill" a face lift as they try to appease warring factions of the party in hopes of sending President Trump's legislative agenda to the Senate before Memorial Day.
The broad outline of the megabill is already set, with committees completing advancement of all 11 portions of the sprawling bill in marathon markups this week. |
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The Trump administration appears to be losing patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as President Trump offers a face-to-face meeting in an effort to end the Ukraine war.
Trump this week flirted with traveling to Turkey to meet with Putin on the sidelines of talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials, but the Kremlin, just before negotiations were expected to kick off, said the Russian president would not be attending and instead sent lower-level officials.
That led Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was in Turkey for meetings about European support for Ukraine, to skip the talks. Rubio later suggested that a Trump-Putin meeting was the "only way" to end the war, a statement that seemed to raise the stakes and signal U.S. displeasure with Putin's foot-dragging. |
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BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
The Supreme Court extended its order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from swiftly deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members being detained in portions of Texas, chastising the administration for not giving them more due process.
Over the dissents of conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the emergency decision prevents authorities from removing the migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a legal challenge proceeds, a win for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is suing on the migrants' behalf. |
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Then-President Biden haltingly answered and frequently paused as he seemingly struggled to answer a special counsel's questions in 2023 about classified documents he kept at his home, according to audio from the interview the news outlet Axios published Friday.
The former president also appeared to struggle to recall dates related to his time as vice president, his son's death and when President Trump was elected to his first term. |
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BY MIKE LILLIS, MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND EMILY BROOKS |
TKPresident Trump's legislative agenda is hanging by a thread as House Republican leaders scramble to make last-minute changes to their "big, beautiful bill" and cut deals to appease warring factions of the party.
The latest setback came Friday, when four spending hawks tanked a key vote in the House Budget Committee to advance the legislation as they dug in on demands for further cuts. The failed vote came despite Trump urging GOP lawmakers to "STOP GRANDSTANDING" and unify, and it forced the committee into an extended recess. |
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President Trump's allies are targeting former FBI Director James Comey over his "8647″ social media message, which they claim was a call for the president's assassination.
But making the case could be difficult, given protections for free speech and the broad meanings behind the eighty-sixing of someone. |
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The Moody's ratings agency downgraded U.S. creditworthiness Friday from the triple-A category to double-A, as Republicans work to pass a massive bill to cut taxes and spending that would add nearly $4 trillion to the federal deficit.
Moody's dropped the U.S. rating from its "Aaa" category to "Aa1" on concerns over increased debts and interest payments that need to be paid by the federal government. |
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is "not ready" for hurricane season, which starts June 1, an internal document warns as President Trump eyes eliminating the department entirely.
Internal slides obtained by The Hill state that, "As FEMA transforms to a smaller footprint, the intent for this hurricane season is not well understood, thus FEMA is not ready." |
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OPINION | A common talking point from President Trump is that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "has no cards." This is not only untrue, but there are clear signs that Ukraine is growing stronger technologically.
This is also why, since the start of negotiations, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been fixated on the demilitarization of the Ukrainian army. As the war shifts into a high-intensity, technology-driven phase, the cost of Russian offensives will only grow. |
OPINION | On March 5, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting a department-wide review of its organization, operations and structure. Central to these efforts, the secretary said, is a pragmatic and disciplined approach to eliminating waste and bureaucracy at VA, increasing efficiency, and improving health care benefits and services to veterans.
As part of his review, he hopes to reduce the department's work force by 15 percent and look at the 90,000 contracts VA administers to cancel those that are duplicative and not critical to the department's mission of caring for veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors. |
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BY JASON HOROWITZ, JULIE BOSMAN, ELIZABETH DIAS, RUTH GRAHAM, SIMON ROMERO AND MITRA TAJ |
Father Robert Prevost told the Peruvian soldiers to back off.
It was the mid-1990s, and the troops, armed to the teeth, had stopped and boarded a minibus carrying the American priest and a group of young Peruvian seminarians. The soldiers tried to forcibly recruit the men.
Citing a law that exempted clerics from military service, Father Prevost told the soldiers, "No, these young men are going to be priests, they cannot go to the barracks," said the Rev. Ramiro Castillo, one of the seminarians in the van. "When he had to speak, he spoke." |
Big Tech is acting like it has something to hide.
And that's not helping tech titans argue, in either the courts of law or public opinion, against the idea they have become too big for their own good. If anything, they're helping dig their own graves.
Amazon.com is the latest to face possible sanctions over allegations it improperly withheld tens of thousands of business records — including some unflattering to founder Jeff Bezos — in defending against an action by the Federal Trade Commission. |
BY ZEKE MILLER AND AAMER MADHANI |
President Trump used the first major foreign trip of his second term to outline a vision for restoring global stability that is grounded in pragmatism and self-interest rather than values, holding out U.S. ties to wealthy Gulf countries as a model for America's longtime foes. His four-day swing through Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which ends Friday, put a spotlight on Trump's transactional approach to foreign affairs as he was feted by autocratic rulers with a trio of lavish state visits where there was heavy emphasis on economic and security partnerships. |
BY SCOTT DANCE AND JOHN MUYSKENS |
For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. But after the U.S. DOGE Service led efforts to shrink the federal government, that is no longer possible in some parts of the country.
In four of the agency's 122 weather forecasting offices around the country, there aren't enough meteorologists to staff an overnight shift, according to the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union representing agency workers. And at least several more forecast offices are expected to stop staffing an overnight shift as early as Sunday. |
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