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Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the rescissions package on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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Some education grants in limbo were used for ‘leftwing agenda,’ Trump administration says

Read full article: Some education grants in limbo were used for ‘leftwing agenda,’ Trump administration says

The Trump administration has accused states and schools of using federal education grants to help fund “a radical leftwing agenda.”.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe departs a classified briefing for senators at the Capitol on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
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New CIA report criticizes investigation into Russia's support for Trump in 2016

Read full article: New CIA report criticizes investigation into Russia's support for Trump in 2016

A newly released report from the CIA challenges the work intelligence agencies did to investigate Russia's support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

Texas hospitals must ask patients for citizenship information, but patients can decline to answer.
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Texas says undocumented immigrants visited local hospitals 80K times in three months. That’s 2% of all visits.

Read full article: Texas says undocumented immigrants visited local hospitals 80K times in three months. That’s 2% of all visits.

While the state says undocumented patients cost hospitals $329 million over three months, critics say the data lacks payment information and more context.

FILE - People watch a live broadcast of Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander as he is released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, at a plaza known as the hostages square in Tel Aviv, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
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Trump to meet at White House with American hostage freed from Gaza

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will meet at the White House on Thursday with Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza, who was released in May.

This image from U.S. Capitol Police video, contained in the statement of facts supporting the arrest warrant for Edward Kelley, and annotated by the source, shows Kelley entering the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Justice Department via AP)
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Military veteran gets a life sentence for plotting an FBI attack after his Jan. 6 arrest

Read full article: Military veteran gets a life sentence for plotting an FBI attack after his Jan. 6 arrest

A military veteran has been sentenced to life in prison for plotting to attack an FBI office and assassinate law enforcement officers.

Bob Vylan perform on the West Holts Stage, during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. England, Saturday, June 28, 2025. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
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With public ban on band Bob Vylan, Trump appears to ease visa privacy rules to make a point

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The U.S. State Department's revelation that it has revoked visas for British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan is the latest indication that the Trump administration appears to have eased privacy restrictions to make public points.

FILE - A volunteer walks along a road next to the border wall separating Mexico and the United States in Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif., Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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Judge blocks order barring asylum access at border and gives administration two weeks to appeal

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A federal judge has ruled that an executive order by President Donald Trump suspending asylum access at the southern border is unlawful.

FILE - The vacant Martin County General Hospital sits abandoned behind a chain since being closed in August of 2023 in Williamston, N.C., shown, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker, File)
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How an empty North Carolina rural hospital explains a GOP senator's vote against Trump's tax bill

Read full article: How an empty North Carolina rural hospital explains a GOP senator's vote against Trump's tax bill

An empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why Republican Sen. Thom Tillis would buck his party and its leaders to vote down President Trump’s signature domestic policy package.

Family members demand the return of immigrant Emma de Paz, who was detained by ICE agents outside a Hollywood Home Depot on June 19, at the "Reclaim Our Street" event to oppose ongoing ICE immigration raids at Mariachi Plaza in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Groups sue to stop Trump administration from using what they call unconstitutional tactics in raids

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A federal lawsuit accuses President Donald Trump’s administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California during an ongoing immigration crackdown that has put the region “under siege.”.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is flanked by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, speaks to reporters after passage of the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Here's how millions of people could lose health insurance if Trump's tax bill becomes law

Read full article: Here's how millions of people could lose health insurance if Trump's tax bill becomes law

Roughly 11.8 million adults and kids will be at risk for losing health insurance if Republicans’ domestic policy package becomes a law.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Sunday, June 22, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel's effort to destroy the country's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Air defense missiles among weaponry US is withholding from Ukraine, AP sources say

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The Trump administration will hold back delivering to Ukraine some air defense missiles, precision-guided artillery and other weapons as part of its announced pause to some arms shipments.

President Donald Trump speaks to the media before walking across the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md., and on to Florida, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Trump asks Supreme Court to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission

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The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who were fired by President Donald Trump and then reinstated by a federal judge.

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable at "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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The Latest: The House returns in a rush to pass Trump’s bill

Read full article: The Latest: The House returns in a rush to pass Trump’s bill

Republican leaders in the House are sprinting toward a vote on President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package, determined to seize momentum from a hard-fought vote in the Senate while essentially daring members to defy their party’s leader and vote against it.

FILE - Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), poses for a photo, Aug. 9, 1955, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo, File)
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Daughter of assassinated civil rights leader sees painful echoes of political violence in America

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Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

FILE - A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Securitys trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security benefits have contributed to closer projected depletion dates. That's according to an annual report released Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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Trump keeps saying the GOP mega bill will eliminate taxes on Social Security. It does not

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President Donald Trump keeps saying that Republicans’ mega tax and spending cut legislation will eliminate taxes on federal Social Security benefits.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and the Democratic Caucus, assemble on the steps of the Capitol to condemn President Donald Trump's signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, in Washington, Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House back to work as GOP leaders try to win over holdouts on Trump's tax bill

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House Republicans were at risk of failing to advance President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, accompanied from left Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi leave after speaking to the media during the Indo-Pacific Quad meeting at the State Department in Washington Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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US, Indo-Pacific partners agree to strengthen maritime, critical minerals cooperation

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The United States.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters after a Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on the Department of Defense hearing on budget estimates for the Navy, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Lindsey Graham gets GOP primary challenge from André Bauer, South Carolina's former lieutenant gov

Read full article: Lindsey Graham gets GOP primary challenge from André Bauer, South Carolina's former lieutenant gov

Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer has announced a GOP primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials

Read full article: 20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials

The Trump administration has violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to federal deportation officials last month, says California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

FILE - Ed Martin speaks at an event at the Capitol in Washington, on June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)
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Ex-FBI agent charged in Capitol riot now works on Justice Department's 'weaponization' task force

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A former FBI agent who was charged with joining a mob’s attack on the U_S_ Capitol and cheering on rioters is now working as an adviser to the Justice Department official overseeing its “weaponization working group.”.

FILE - Pete Marocco departs after briefing the House Foreign Affairs Committee behind closed doors, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Federal judge halts the Trump administration from dismantling the US African Development Foundation

Read full article: Federal judge halts the Trump administration from dismantling the US African Development Foundation

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from dismantling a U.S. federal agency that invests in African small businesses.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, left, and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., right, walk at the Capitol, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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'Agonizing': How Alaska's pivotal Republican senator decided to vote for Donald Trump's bill

Read full article: 'Agonizing': How Alaska's pivotal Republican senator decided to vote for Donald Trump's bill

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska convinced Senate leaders to change their massive tax and spending cuts package to benefit her state and eventually voted for the legislation, ensuring its passage.

FILE - Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, center, applauds for those affected by the Los Angeles area wildfires as she gives the State of the State address in the House of Representatives at the state Capitol with Speaker of the House Rep. Steve Montenegro, R-Litchfield Park, left, and Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, flanking the governor on Jan. 13, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Arizona Democrats will bypass struggling state party in midterms, with key races on ballot

Read full article: Arizona Democrats will bypass struggling state party in midterms, with key races on ballot

Arizona's top Democrats will bypass the state Democratic Party for next year’s midterms.

FILE - The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a press conference with Attorney General Pam Bondi, May 6, 2025, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
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What the Justice Department's push to bring denaturalization cases means

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The Justice Department is ramping up efforts to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who commit crimes or pose a national security risk.

This undated photo provided by the Morris for Senate Campaign shows Republican businessman Nate Morris who formally launched his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Kentucky on Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Max Cowan/Morris for Senate Campaign via AP)
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Kentucky Senate hopeful says Mitch McConnell doesn't deserve lifetime achievement award

Read full article: Kentucky Senate hopeful says Mitch McConnell doesn't deserve lifetime achievement award

Republican businessman Nate Morris says Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is undeserving of a lifetime achievement award from their home state political party.

FILE - Swimmers including Penn's Lia Thomas, lane 4, dive into the water at the start of a qualifying heat of the 200 yard freestyle at the Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at Harvard University, Feb. 18, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)
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UPenn updates swimming records set by Lia Thomas, settling with feds on transgender athletes case

Read full article: UPenn updates swimming records set by Lia Thomas, settling with feds on transgender athletes case

The University of Pennsylvania has changed three school records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.

FILE - Jaelene, 9, works on a computer during a third grade English language arts class at Mount Vernon Community School, in Alexandria, Va., May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Trump administration withholds over $6 billion for after-school, summer programs and more

Read full article: Trump administration withholds over $6 billion for after-school, summer programs and more

The Trump administration is withholding more than $6 billion in federal grants for after-school and summer programs, English language instruction, adult literacy and more.

President Donald Trump points to a reporter to take a question as he speaks to the media, Friday, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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What's in the latest version of Trump's big bill that passed the Senate

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At some 887 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

FILE - Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott speaks, Oct. 29, 2024, at the Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr., File)
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Mayors, doctor groups sue over Trump's efforts to restrict Obamacare enrollment

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New Trump administration rules that give millions of people less time to sign up for the Affordable Care Act’s coverage, and bar some immigrants from buying the health care coverage, are facing a legal challenge from Democratic mayors.