A bipartisan effort in Congress to restrain immigration enforcement tactics is flailing despite a Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The pattern is increasingly familiar.
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
Under President Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan, Arab countries and the European Union are supposed to train a new police force in the Gaza Strip. But U.S. plans have run into serious challenges.
Plus: more Olympics, the Super Bowl and some monks.
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The four people are set to dock with the I.S.S. on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA's last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member.
The anti-tariff House vote will likely prove symbolic, since the measure faces challenging odds in the Senate and a potential veto from Trump, analysts said.
The journalist Anand Giridharadas examines the power and influence that Jeffrey Epstein brokered, and which the latest batch of Epstein files puts on display.
What happens when the people building a new technology don’t want to use it?
Halfway through the academic year, the administration canceled $168 million in community schools grants.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is one of the only Democrats in Washington who can work with President Trump, leaning on their common New York ties, mutual allies and the residuals of their long-ago alliance. Why it matters: There's deep mistrust between the two and their aides. But Schumer and Trump have each other's numbers literally and figuratively, and have been known to talk on the phone like the longtime acquaintances they are. - As a New York Democrat decades ago, Trump financially supported Schumer's political campaigns. Trump and his family accounted for nearly $20,000 in contributions to Schumer, according to Open Secrets . - Schumer in 2006 made a cameo on Trump's show, The Apprentice, where he praised the…