Live updates: Trump rejects CR as Johnson considers backup spending plan; NDAA clears Senate
President-elect Trump rejected the bipartisan spending deal that was drawing flak from an array of Republicans, with a ...
Lawmakers caught off guard by Trump debt ceiling demand
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appeared caught off guard on Wednesday as President-elect Trump demanded that a debt ...
Bernie Sanders blasts ‘President Elon Musk’ for derailing spending deal
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took aim at tech mogul Elon Musk for saying that any lawmaker supporting the continuing ...
Johnson considers plan B amid Trump World opposition to spending deal
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is looking at a plan B to fund the government ahead of Friday’s shutdown deadline as Republicans ...
Hawley: RFK Jr. open to mifepristone restrictions
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human ...
California declares state of emergency over bird flu
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to detection of bird flu in dairy cows, stating this action will streamline the state’s response.
Separated for decades, Assad’s fall spurs hope for families split by Golan Heights buffer zone
The four sisters gathered by the side of the road, craning their necks to peer far beyond the razor wire-reinforced fence ...
Stock Market Today: Asian shares track Wall Street’s selloff after Fed hints at 2 rate cuts in 2025
Shares skidded Thursday in Asia after U.S. stocks tumbled to one of their worst days of the year when the Federal Reserve ...
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Number of dead and missing still unclear as first aid arrives in quake-hit Pacific nation of Vanuatu
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Amid the havoc wrought by a violent earthquake two days earlier, Ivan Oswald and his staff at ...
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Japanese newspaper boss who influenced the nation’s postwar politics died at 98
TOKYO (AP) — Tsuneo Watanabe, the powerful head of Japan’s largest newspaper who had close ties with the country’s powerful ...
McConnell on funding turmoil: ‘Oh, this is the way it’s going to be next year’
Outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) quipped Wednesday evening that Republicans may be in for more turmoil ...
Jeffries suggests Democrats will oppose a ‘clean’ funding bill after Johnson plan falters
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) suggested Wednesday that Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that ...