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Contributor/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a devastating missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy appeared to have killed dozens of civilians gathered for Palm Sunday celebrations, President Donald Trump downplayed the incident as a [Read More…]

James Devaney/GC Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Joe Biden will deliver one of his first public speeches since leaving office 85 days ago, expected to speak about safeguarding Social Security amid Republicans’ current threats to [Read More…]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Barack Obama in a statement late Monday praised Harvard University for rejecting President Donald Trump’s demands as the university faces a funding freeze for alleged inaction on antisemitism. [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President JD Vance fumbled The Ohio State University football team’s national championship trophy during a celebration at the White House on Monday. President Donald Trump hosted the Buckeyes after [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his idea of sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons, telling El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele he wanted to send “homegrown criminals” to [Read More…]

Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC (WASHINGTON) — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, sitting next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, said on Monday he will not return Kilmar Abrego García, a migrant from Maryland who [Read More…]

Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday is hosting El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, the self-described “world’s coolest dictator” who has become a key ally in the administration’s controversial migrant deportations. The two men [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new legislative push led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., is seeking to bar special government employees like tech billionaire and senior Trump adviser Elon [Read More…]

wellesenterprises/Getty Images/STOCK (ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — At the U.S. Naval Academy, it’s not what’s on the shelves that’s drawing attention — but what’s missing. The institution’s Nimitz Library has been stripped of 381 titles, according to [Read More…]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice said it is reviewing the criminal case brought against a former FBI informant convicted of peddling lies about former President Joe Biden and his [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump undergoes his annual physical at Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, marking his first such exam of his second term. “I have never felt better, but nevertheless, [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a towering sandstone arch in rural Arizona with [Read More…]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from the White House over serious concerns that President Donald Trump’s rollbacks on his tariffs and his social media posts earlier Wednesday may [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House narrowly voted to approve the GOP budget blueprint Thursday by a vote of 216-214, delivering a major victory for President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Trump congratulated the House [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House is voting Thursday on a budget blueprint to fund President Donald Trump’s agenda, which was passed by the Senate last week. “I’m happy to tell you that this [Read More…]

ABC News The Democratic National Committee — continuing its push to host town halls in Republican-held districts — is announcing a new set of town halls focused on the Republican-led budget bill and featuring high-profile [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are exhausting all legislative tools to prevent future votes on repealing President Donald Trump’s tariffs — doubling down on their support for the administration’s policies. GOP leaders on [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are plowing ahead with a vote on the Senate-approved GOP budget blueprint on Wednesday despite opposition from rank-and-file lawmakers. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., with the help [Read More…]

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHIGTON) — The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is planning to resign following the agency’s data sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to support the Trump administration’s efforts [Read More…]

Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of expected talks between the United States and Iran over the weekend, the State Department pushed back on the idea that the discussion would be a negotiation [Read More…]