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Our national political correspondent, Shane Goldmacher, explains how a growing number of Republican candidates in key battleground states are making calculated decisions to distance themselves from President Trump and his policies.
President Trump blasted CNN and MS Now Thursday over their coverage of his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which did not include live video coverage and came as a federal judge reinstated the outlets' White House access. "CNN and MSDNC, to show you how fake they are, today refused to cover one of the...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Xi says US, China have responsibility to keep AI under human control Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday the U.S. and China have an obligation to manage the development of artificial intelligence as “leading nations” in the industry. © AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin “We have both the capability and...
A lower federal court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on deporting migrants to countries other than their own.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to resume deporting migrants to countries where they have no ties. President Trump has increasingly relied on the practice, called third-country removals, in his aggressive immigration crackdown. His administration has signed agreements to send deportees to countries across the globe, many...
Dr. Heidi Overton, President Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), walked a fine line Thursday on vaccines and abortion, largely dodging difficult questions from senators. The confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee shed light on the priorities of lawmakers, but offered little about Overton’s views...
A prominent Democrat said Thursday that President Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for construction of his controversial arch just outside Washington. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), who represents the Northern Virginia district where the arch would stand, said he visited the site on Thursday morning after constituents informed him that construction vehicles had arrived...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that Tehran is willing to strike a deal with the U.S. before the November midterms, pushing back on President Trump’s claim that the regime is waiting until after Americans hit the polls to settle the conflict. “We don't want it to get to the midterm elections,” Pezeshkian told reporters...
A federal appeals court late Wednesday had to clarify for the Trump administration that its ruling last week barred them from deporting migrants to third countries, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were poised to deport a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic. A three-judge panel for the 1st Circuit Court of...
A man who was shot and injured during the assassination attempt on President Trump at a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Penn., has died. Jim Copenhaver was one of two event attendees injured during the attack. One rally-goer, Corey Comperatore, was killed after Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire in an attempt to end the then-presidential...
Democrats and some Republicans are criticizing an ad from the Trump administration paid for by the U.S. government that pushes back against communism, socialism and Marxism in the U.S. just weeks before the midterm elections. The 30-second commercial features Trump’s voice, saying, “Together we will defeat communism, socialism, and Marxism in America” and “America will...
The vote came as a growing number of Republicans have broken from President Trump on the conflict, reflecting voters’ concerns ahead of midterm elections.
As a key Democratic negotiator says a deal to speed up infrastructure projects could be months away, the Trump administration is saying it may not be willing to wait that long. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) told reporters Thursday that a permitting reform deal could pass in the lame duck, but the White House is indicating...
Judge Timothy J. Kelly had worked as counsel for Senator Charles E. Grassley, who called him a “very talented attorney” in 2017.
A majority of residents in the Washington, D.C., area have been negatively impacted by the Trump administration’s federal job cuts, according to a new survey. More than half, 55 percent, of 2,801 residents in D.C. and nearby suburbs said their household was negatively affected by the reduction in the federal workforce in the past year,...
The Senate on Thursday defeated a House-passed resolution directing President Trump to withdraw U.S. troops from the conflict with Iran, despite growing dissatisfaction among GOP senators over President Trump’s handling of the war. Four Republicans joined nearly the entire Senate Democratic caucus for the war powers resolution, which the House passed in July. But the...
Trump’s allies end a legally required step, one of the final hurdles for the project to advance.
Cutting access from health programs for folks whose premiums have already skyrocketed this year is insane, especially a few weeks before the midterm elections.
The White House said that the three-course menu, including sea bass and bok choy, featured American ingredients with a “subtle Chinese influence.”
The State Department ordered its diplomats to use term "super intelligence" when referring to artificial intelligence (AI) in all of its communications, after President Trump pushed for the renaming, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The AP obtained an email with the subject line "Change in Nomenclature AI to SI" sent to the department's Bureau of...
President Trump has repeatedly cited the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as inspiration and competition with his own design.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) head Bryan Bedford said there was no political interference in the air safety review for President Trump's proposed triumphal arch, which concluded that a visible eternal flame be installed at the top of the structure. "We put the process through the same obstruction evaluation that our career [employees] do for any...
American artificial intelligence companies have accused their Chinese counterparts of using a technique called distillation to enhance their own systems.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at the White House on Thursday he was gifting the U.S. with two giant pandas and invitations for 100,000 U.S. students to study in China. “The giant panda has been an envoy of friendship between the Chinese and the Americans,” Xi said, speaking alongside President Trump and other officials from...