Politics

Once a crypto skeptic, Trump is now a big fan of the industry

By Will Weissert, Alan Suderman, Associated Press

Thursday night’s event for the 220 biggest buyers of the $TRUMP meme coin has instead raised questions about potentially shadowy buyers using the anonymity of the internet to buy access to the president.

House Republicans narrowly passed Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill. Here's what's in it

By Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

Republicans are trying to make permanent the individual income and estate tax cuts passed in Trump's first term plus enact promises he made in the 2024 campaign to not tax tips, overtime and interest on some auto loans.

WATCH: Trump, RFK Jr. and 'MAHA' commission leaders discuss first health report

By Amanda Seitz, Michelle L. Price, Associated Press

A government report released on Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some of the most contentious views on vaccines, the nation's food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs held by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

WATCH: White House holds briefing after House GOP passes Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

By Associated Press

Leavitt also used her press briefing Thursday to attack by name the federal judge who ruled that the White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries with a flight linked to South Sudan.

Senate blocks California's rule banning new gas-powered car sales by 2035

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

The Senate voted on Thursday to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, acting to kill the nation’s most aggressive effort to transition toward electric vehicles as President Donald Trump’s administration has doubled…

Judge blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle Education Department

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

Weather experts worry about a dangerous mix of more tornadoes and fewer meteorologists

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

The U.S. is on track to see more tornadoes this year than in 2024, which was the second-busiest tornado year on record.

Supreme Court 4-4 vote ends Oklahoma's taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation’s first religious charter school. But…

House Republicans pull an all-nighter to pass Trump's bill of tax breaks and program cuts

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, Leah Askarinam, Associated Press

With last-minute concessions and stark warnings from President Donald Trump, the Republican holdouts largely dropped their opposition to salvage the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that's central to the GOP agenda.