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Backlash to Trump’s $1.8B settlement fund delays GOP immigration billVideo
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans abruptly left Washington on Thursday without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies, frustrated with the White House and at an impasse over whether to try to block a new $1.776 billion settlement fund to compensate Trump allies who believe they...
Surgeon General’s Office tells young people to put down the phones and ‘live real life’Video
The Surgeon General’s Office is telling young people to touch grass, in internet lingo, as part of a new warning linking excessive screen time to developmental delays, poor academic outcomes and mental health issues. Released Wednesday, the 43-page advisory calls on Americans of all ages to cut back on scrolling...
Atlantic hurricane season forecast to be milder than normal thanks to El Nino
A developing El Nino that is forecast to get quite strong will likely dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won’t make the potentially deadly storms disappear, federal and outside meteorologists predict. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued its seasonal outlook for the Atlantic, giving a...
Facing intense internal pressure, DNC releases postelection autopsy that criticizes Kamala Harris
NEW YORK — Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America” during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower,” according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released Thursday by the Democratic National Committee. But the document’s key findings, the focus of much mystery over the last...
Air France flight to U.S. diverted to Montreal due to Ebola travel restrictions
TORONTO — An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Congo boarded a flight in Paris “in error” amid flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday. A spokesperson for the agency says the passenger “should...
Some see white livestreamer’s freedom of speech claims as cover for race-baiting
The shooting and wounding of a Black man, allegedly by a white livestreamer known for posting videos of himself provoking people with racist comments, has stoked debate over the extents of free speech and content creators who monetize hate-filled interactions. As more social media livestreamers find that being performative with...
At 1 Kentucky bar, young Republicans wrestle with their disappointment in Trump and their party
COVINGTON, Ky. — On a recent evening in northern Kentucky, over a dozen young Republicans gathered with beers and brightly colored cocktails at a bar called dEcORa, its neon interior as eccentric as its capitalization, ribbing each other and picking apart the presidential administration they welcomed with high hopes last...
Key federal agency approves the design plan for Trump’s Washington archVideo
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved the design for the triumphal arch that President Donald Trump wants built at an entrance to the nation’s capital, a key step in the project’s process but one that has no immediate bearing on the timeline for construction. Commissioners,...
Companies join a deep-sea mining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits
WASHINGTON — In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from scratch, businesses have raised millions of dollars from investors, stock prices have soared and federal regulators have raced to fast-track a permitting process. At least nine companies are in...
Democrats are hoping for a breakthrough as the House takes another Iran war vote
WASHINGTON — The House is expected to vote on legislation Thursday to compel President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran, a significant test of lawmakers’ willingness to go along with a conflict the president launched over two months ago without congressional approval. The vote is the latest...
Republicans expected to abandon $1B security proposal for White House and Trump’s ballroom
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trump’s ballroom on Thursday after members of their own party questioned the timing and the lack of detail in the Secret Service request. Pressured by...
SpaceX reveals plans for what could be the biggest-ever initial public offering
NEW YORK — Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest stock sales ever by taking public a space company that is currently losing billions of dollars year. A filing shows that his SpaceX lost $2.6 billion from operations last year on $18.7 billion in revenue, and the...
Israel begins deporting hundreds of international flotilla activists
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel has released hundreds of activists who attempted to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and is in the process of deporting them, according to a legal organization working with the flotilla. The Israel-based legal advocacy group, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel,...
RFK Jr. fires leaders of group that sets guidelines for preventive health screenings
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has fired the two leaders of an influential health group that determines when insurance must provide free preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies, for millions of Americans. In letters dated May 11, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notified the two doctors who chaired the...
House committee discusses modernizing the TSA as Trump seeks to privatize airport screening
NEW YORK — A House committee on Wednesday expressed bipartisan support for ensuring Transportation Security Administration officers get paid during future government shutdowns and are equipped with the latest technology, discussing the agency’s future as the Trump administration lobbies to make airport screening a job for private contractors. Members of...
3 dead in New Mexico and first responders decontaminated after exposure to unknown substance
MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. — Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders had to be quarantined and assessed Wednesday for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose at a rural New Mexico home, authorities said. New Mexico State Police said three...
James Murdoch, media scion, strikes deal for New York Magazine and Vox
NEW YORK — Promising a commitment to “ambitious journalism and agenda-setting conversations,” media scion James Murdoch has struck a deal with the Vox Media digital company to acquire New York magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network and the Vox editorial brand. The deal with Vox, widely seen as liberal-leaning, represents...
9 deportees from U.S. arrive in Sierra Leone under 3rd-country agreement
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Nine migrants deported from the United States landed in Sierra Leone on Wednesday, the West African country said, in the latest example of the Trump administration’s widely criticized deals with African nations to take third-country deportees. Five migrants are from Ghana, two from Guinea, one from...
Trump tells Coast Guard graduates they will ‘be tested’ in their military careers
NEW LONDON, Conn. — President Donald Trump told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduates on Wednesday that they show “unbelievable heroism and exceptional selflessness” but that the cadets will “be tested further” as they embark on their military careers. Trump’s remarks to the class of 2026 were the first time...
Officers who defended Capitol from rioters sue to block payouts from $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
WASHINGTON — Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol from an attack by a mob of Trump supporters sued on Wednesday to block anyone — including Jan. 6, 2021, rioters — from receiving payouts from a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for people who claim to be victims...
U.S. announces charges against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro in 1996 aircraft shootdown
MIAMI — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles as the Trump administration escalated pressure on the island’s socialist government. The indictment was related to Castro’s alleged role in the shootdown of two small...
Residents of Lithuania’s capital told to shelter as drone alarm underlines NATO’s eastern jitters
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Residents of Lithuania’s capital were told to take shelter and the country’s president and prime minister were taken to safe locations Wednesday because of an alarm over drone activity near the border with Belarus, underlining jitters on NATO’s eastern flank over incursions related to Russia’s invasion of...
Barney Frank, a liberal congressman and trailblazer for gay rights, diesVideo
WASHINGTON — Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman and leading liberal who brought new visibility to gay rights and crafted the most significant reforms to the financial system in a generation, has died. He was 86. Frank died late Tuesday, according to Jim Segel, Frank’s former campaign manager and close...
Putin and Xi hail their friendship and growing energy trade at their meeting in Beijing
BEIJING — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed their strategic ties and growing energy trade as they met in Beijing Wednesday only days after a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to China. Putin and Xi oversaw the signing of more than 40 cooperation agreements in...
Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement
Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While many people across the country lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk’s...
