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With just 10 days to go until President Donald Trump’s country-specific tariffs are set to resume, the White House appears poised to fall short of the sweeping global trade reforms it promised to achieve during the three months they were on hold.

Stephanie Ivory counts on Medicaid to get treated for gastrointestinal conditions and a bulging disc that makes standing or sitting for long periods painful. Her disabilities keep her from working, she said.

A controversial plan to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of public land across Western states — including California — was axed from the Republican tax and spending bill amid bipartisan backlash, prompting celebration from conservationists.

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.

WASHINGTON – The sprawling tax and health care bill that Senate Republicans are trying to pass would add at least $3.3 trillion to the already-bulging national debt over a decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Sunday, putting a far higher price tag on the measure than some of the party’s fiscal hawks had indicated they could stomach.

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican who has represented North Carolina in Washington for a decade and has clashed with President Donald Trump as recently as Saturday, announced Sunday he will not seek reelection. The Huntersville resident, a former speaker of the state House of Representatives, was first elected to the Senate in 2014. In a Sunday statement, Tillis said he had not “been excited ...

An emboldened Trump administration plans to aggressively challenge blocks on the president’s top priorities, from immigration to education, following a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limits the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions.

Hundreds of people gathered in the heart of the Everglades on Saturday — signs raised and chants echoing — to protest “Alligator Alcatraz,” a migrant detention center being built on a former airstrip in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Donald Trump and Senate Republican leaders worked Saturday to persuade reluctant holdouts to back the president’s multitrillion-dollar tax and spending bill ahead of a pivotal vote. The weekend arm-twisting, which included Trump golfing with frequent foe Rand Paul and other senators, came as the party worked to rush the bill to the president’s desk ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline. ...

The Trump administration’s plan for mass layoffs at the State Department has left much of the workforce exasperated and embittered, tanking morale as extra demands were made to assist U.S. citizens seeking to flee the Middle East amid Israel’s war with Iran, employees say.

The Trump administration on Friday secured perhaps the most significant victory in its pressure campaign on higher education, forcing the resignation of the University of Virginia's president, James E. Ryan, over the college's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Harvard University announced contingency plans for some of its thousands of international students, whom the Trump administration is trying to bar from entering the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a portion of the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to provide free preventive care such as screenings for cancer and HIV.

The Supreme Court on Friday put off deciding whether to uphold a Louisiana map that added a second majority-Black congressional district in the state, saying it would rehear the case in its next term.

Former President Joe Biden joined Minnesotans by the thousands who paid their respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman at the Minnesota Capitol on Friday, as the couple received one of the state’s highest honors. 

The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration has said that in the next few days it will stop providing data from satellites that have been helping hurricane forecasters do their jobs for decades, citing "recent service changes" as the cause.

Top Florida Republicans seem to be relishing their moment in the swamp. On Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis continued his publicity blitz around the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility the state is building in the Everglades.

WASHINGTON – Public schools in Maryland must allow parents with religious objections to withdraw their children from classes in which storybooks with LGBTQ+ themes are discussed, the Supreme Court ruled Friday.