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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of internal GOP wrangling, the Republican-led House early Thursday passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” critical to advancing President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration agenda. A smiling [Read More…]

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a rare deadlocked 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation’s first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars. Justice Amy Coney Barrett [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of internal GOP wrangling, the Republican-led House early Thursday passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” critical to advancing President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration agenda. A smiling [Read More…]

J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday that it is moving to drop police reform agreements, known as consent decrees, that the Biden-era department reached with the cities [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The future of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” that would fund his second-term agenda could depend on SALT. The State and Local Tax deduction has been a wedge [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A district judge ruled on Wednesday that the government’s deportations of eight men convicted of violent crimes to South Sudan was “unquestionably violative of this Court’s order” after ruling earlier [Read More…]

Jen Golbeck/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States officially accepted a luxury jet to use as Air Force One from Qatar, the Department of Defense confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday. “The [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republican leaders — including Speaker Mike Johnson — are expected to head to the White House Wednesday afternoon along with members of the House Freedom Caucus to meet with [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia has died, his office announced Wednesday morning. He was 75 years old. “It is with immense sadness that we share that our devoted and [Read More…]

J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday that it is moving to drop police reform agreements, known as consent decrees, that the Biden-era department reached with the cities [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINTON) — Officially titled the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” this megabill fulfills a laundry list of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises from taxes to border security. As [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem incorrectly responded to a lawmaker’s question on the definition of habeas corpus during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the Department [Read More…]

Chris McGrath/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is hosting South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday amid tensions between the two nations over the U.S. resettlement of white South Africans. [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled plans to begin building a sophisticated new missile defense shield that could intercept threats from space, estimating the endeavor would cost some $175 billion [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is set to unveil at the White House Tuesday afternoon his plans to build a massive missile shield system to protect the United States against threats from [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning turned up the heat on House Republican holdout votes endangering passage of the megabill aimed at advancing his legislative agenda, sources told ABC News. [Read More…]

Yoon S. Byun/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a copy of “Original Sin, President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” obtained by ABC News, authors and [Read More…]

Police body cam image of New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver outside of an ICE detention facility, in Newark, N.J., May 9, 2025. United States District Court/District of New Jersey (NEWARK, N.J.) — New Jersey Rep. [Read More…]

Handout/Presidencia El Salvador via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A 20-year-old Venezuelan man seeking a return to the United States after being sent to El Salvador won a legal victory over President Donald Trump’s administration on [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Joe Biden’s office announced on Sunday that he was diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer. Biden’s office also said the cancer had metastasized, spreading to his [Read More…]