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The legislation, which the Senate passed Friday, has been held up by disputes over President Donald Trump’s ballroom and the $1.8 billion payout fund.

The U.S. House on Tuesday is scheduled to vote on a $70 billion immigration enforcement funding package after months of debate.

I quit the campaign last fall, disturbed by what I'd learned about the Maine Democratic Senate primary candidate.

The House will be voting on Republicans' $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of the Trump administration.

The House on Tuesday advanced a nearly $70 billion budget reconciliation package that would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol.  The lower chamber approved a rule…

The test vote cleared the way for final passage of Republicans’ megabill to fund immigration enforcement through the remainder of President Trump’s term.

Lawmakers called on the White House to grant immunity to whistleblowers who come forward with UFO information.

The Cleveland Clinic pledged $2 million in care for people who detransition after receiving gender-affirming care as minors under a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ), becoming the…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday added bemotrizinol to the list of permitted sunscreen active ingredients, the first such addition since the late 1990s. Bemotrizinol provides…

Energy Secretary Chris Wright predicted Tuesday that the amount oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz will “continue to rise” as the U.S. and Iran work to end the 100-plus day conflict.…

Paris Hilton is sounding the alarm about explicit AI-generated images that she says could “ruin someone’s life,” shining a star-powered light on one of the darkest corners of the…

The astronauts in the Artemis III mission will test equipment for moon missions in Earth's orbit.

Two senior Republican senators on Tuesday agreed Congress is unlikely to pass a third reconciliation bill, cautioning against relying on the possibility for defense funding. During a hearing Tuesday…

An unmanned U.S. Navy surface vessel rescued the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache crew late Monday that went down near the Strait of Hormuz.  The two crew members, who were in the waters close…

CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley is going after Bari Weiss after his firing from “60 Minutes,” lashing out during an interview with The New York Times in which he asserted that Weiss has no…

Political commentator Bill O’Reilly said Monday that the results of the Los Angeles mayoral primary are “suspicious” after city councilmember Nithya Raman (D) knocked out former reality star Spencer…

Groff worked for Epstein for nearly 20 years, and her name appears more than 150,000 times in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice.

The Maine Republican, who is in the middle of a tumultuous re-election race, became the first senator in history to reach the threshold without missing a vote.

Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) holds a 3-point edge over state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in the Lone Star State’s Senate race, according to a new poll conducted by the Texas Pulse. The…

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The Pentagon has barred Chinese tech giant Alibaba, electric car maker BYD and search engine Baidu from getting U.S. defense contracts by adding them to its list of Chinese military companies…

When free speech is stifled, the search for truth necessarily suffers.

Nearly 6 in 10 adults in the U.S. expect gas prices to worsen over the next year, as the ongoing Iran war continues to roil energy markets, according to a new poll. The survey, released Monday by…

Concerns over the spread of the New World screwworm are growing after multiple new cases were confirmed on Monday, and as state and federal officials ramp up efforts to contain the parasite.

The federal government must enact human-centric regulations for AI before it's too late to protect children and preserve human agency, and the Every Student Succeeds Act must be reauthorized to…

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, has retained Jake Greenberg, the former top investigative counsel to the House Oversight Committee.

She entered the Oversight hearing room with lawmakers and staff propped up on either side by a man and a woman who were walking with her.

Despite his injuries, the driver allegedly continued to flee before being found again.

We are celebrating that breakthrough at the precise moment Washington is taking apart the research base behind it.

The Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act, included in the House farm bill, could potentially re-legalize horse slaughter nationwide, despite strong bipartisan opposition and the existing state-level bans.

Jason Dick talks with Sky Sitney about this year’s DC/DOX documentary film festival, which brings to Washington a slate of more than 100 nonfiction movies about Billie Jean King, Earth Wind and…

House Democratic leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as their GOP counterparts are seeking to pass an extension of the nation’s warrantless spying powers ahead of a June 12…

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday morning on the Southern Poverty Law Center, months after the Trump administration accused the civil rights group of funneling money to…

Bill Gates has long been one of the most admired people in the world, especially since he stepped down from his role running Microsoft to devote himself and much of his fortune to philanthropy. That r

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and GOP leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as time ticks down for Congress to pass its legislative priorities, including passing a long-term…

Washington keeps adopting tools that can shape, track or influence the federal workforce before Congress sets clear rules for how those tools may be used.

Kurt Busch thanked everyone who had supported him since Kyle Busch's death and reflected on the times he and his brother raced together.

Researchers found that approximately 44% of GLP-1 users reported at least one side effect.

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President Trump appointed Bill Pulte, with no intelligence or national security experience, as the interim director of national intelligence to prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

A surprise second round of payments is starting in the $725 million class action settlement over Facebook users' privacy issues.

The lesson was that people did not care that there was nothing in the vault. They were just there for the ride. Reality TV had arrived.

Diablo Canyon's resurgence shows California has reimagined environmentalism. It is time for legacy groups to reimagine it, too.

Graham Platner is seeking to make a Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate official in advance of one of the most anticipated contests of the year

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm that birthed ChatGPT, is struggling to distance itself from pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future and its Silicon Valley backers as the industry faces backlash…

As of this writing, Republican Spencer Pratt is running third in the officially nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles mayor. It would not be in any way surprising for a Republican to finish out of the…

The looming deadline to renew the nation’s warrantless spy powers is clashing with a pressure campaign on the White House to yank the appointment of Bill Pulte, a controversial figure tapped to…

The post A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One appeared first on ProPublica.

by Lori Robertson ANALYSIS —Ohio voters are witnessing a battle of campaign television ads as each Senate candidate tries to tie the other to Jeffrey Epstein — by way of donations from those with…

Voters across Maine, Nevada, South Carolina and North Dakota head to the polls for another day of primary elections in America

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Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner went after Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Sunday during a town hall, calling the Pennsylvania senator “an a–hole.” “The Senate really is a place…

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care The Big Story Insulin legislation gains steam Bipartisan legislation to cap insulin at $35 a month for people with private insurance is…

President Trump’s favored candidate to become Los Angeles mayor looks like he won’t even make the runoff — a reality that has provoked a barrage of unsubstantiated claims of fraud from the commander…

OpenAI has confidentially filed paperwork to go public, the company announced Monday. It is one of three leading AI companies preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), alongside SpaceX and…

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday that numerous medical school accrediting organizations and assessors have agreed to increase nutrition requirements for U.S. medical…

Los Angeles’s registered Democrats waited until “the last minute” to cast their ballots in the June 2 primary election as they sorted out their options for California governor. And…

Fewer Americans are saying that democracy is central to U.S. identity ahead of the country’s 250th birthday, according to a new poll. In The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Nvidia’s CEO should answer questions publicly as lawmakers scrutinize AI chip sales to China and export controls.

Residents in the nation’s capital are leaning toward voting for City Councilmember Janeese Lewis-George, a Democratic socialist, to serve as its new mayor according to a recent polling. …

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said conversations are taking place over President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting national intelligence director as the GOP leader seeks…

Talarico drew attention to his campaign winning the endorsement of the attorney.

House Republicans appeared set to clear a Senate-passed reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies through the rest of President Donald Trump’s term. CQ Roll Call’s Aris…

House lawmakers passed a bill Monday aimed at preventing future executive branch interference in some legislative branch agencies, a year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress.…

Work continued Monday on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been under renovation for weeks. The pool is expected to reopen in time for the Fourth of July.

Republicans in Congress face two major tasks this week: wrapping up reconciliation 2.0 and renewing a controversial spy powers authority before it expires Friday. The House returns with a final…

Pennsylvania’s Bob Brooks is one of a slew of working-class Democrats on the ballot – can he beat a Koch-backed rival?Bob Brooks has worked a lot of jobs, sometimes several at once to make ends…

A national redistricting battle is about to enter a new phase