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Congressional Republicans’ scrutiny of the Smithsonian intensified this week, exposing a sharp divide within Maryland’s congressional delegation over who should decide how America’s history is told in the nation’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump is poised to impose fresh levies on products from dozens of economies by Friday, according to people familiar with the matter, a move to ensure his tariff regime remains intact even after stopgap 10%...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate is on track to vote next week on President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, after he cleared a key committee hurdle.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Congress struggles, yet again, to pass a funding extension to head off a government shutdown this fall, House appropriators took some time Wednesday to think about other ways of doing business.

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CHICAGO — Northwestern University and University of Chicago alumni involved in a class-action antitrust lawsuit regarding the schools’ tuition practices could soon see settlement payouts, according to a recent court ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento religious leaders can no longer hold pro-immigrant monthly prayer vigils outside the John Moss Federal Building downtown.

A security guard at the building delivered the news last week to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a series of six nominations and seven bills on Wednesday, including a measure to limit the use of vehicles and vehicle technologies ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House adopted a GOP-backed budget resolution along party lines Wednesday, taking a critical first step toward passing a $95 billion reconciliation package focused mostly on the Iran war.

The vote on the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was in Georgia’s Cobb County on Wednesday, diving into one of the nation’s most closely watched political battlegrounds where Republicans are looking to flip a Senate seat in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has agreed to work with Saudi Arabia to develop a civilian nuclear program, a watershed moment following a years-long effort to curb the proliferation of nuclear technology in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers took a step Wednesday toward reining in their own stock trading, a move Republicans hope will burnish Congress’ image as they head home for an extended August break.

In a mostly party-line 232-...Read more

CHICAGO — The City Council on Wednesday approved a slate of non-binding referendums favored by opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson for Chicago voters to consider in next year’s citywide election, the most contentious of...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed veteran federal prosecutor Michael Martin to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in a bipartisan 62-36 vote.

Ten Democratic senators ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Five candidates vying for three top-of-ballot offices made their appeal to law enforcement officers from over 200 counties on Tuesday at the annual Sheriffs Association of Texas conference in Fort ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — About 100 protesters gathered in downtown Raleigh on Wednesday to protest immigration agents’ activity around the country, and to memorialize immigrants and U.S. citizens who have died during their ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida’s Congressional District 20 has faced political headwinds in the middle of a key election year after a mid-year redistricting process that changed the demographics of the historically Black ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — At the request of federal prosecutors, a judge on Wednesday dismissed the criminal case against a woman accused of crashing into immigration agents in a school parking lot during Operation Metro Surge.

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WOODLAND, Calif. — A judge has declared Carlos Dominguez legally insane, and he will be committed to a state hospital in the stabbing deaths of two men in a 2023 Davis knife rampage.

Yolo Superior Court Judge Samuel T. ...Read more

The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Wednesday tentatively set June 1, 2027, as the start date for their trial in New York, while ...Read more

Silicon Valley residents are increasingly trying to stop the advance of artificial intelligence, even as the region attracts hundreds of billions of dollars in investment to expand the technology's reach.

Companies and ...Read more