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... news operations today. The nonprofit broadcaster is also closing overseas bureaus and laying off employees. RFA had been operating with the skeleton staff since President Trump moved to cut its federal funding earlier this year. The ongoing government shutdown has only added to its budget problems. Radio Free Asia was ...
The Justice Department will send election monitors to five California counties and one New Jersey county for the Nov. 4 election in response to state Republicans’ requests. Monitors can observe but can’t interfere with voting.
Earlier this year, Republicans changed the Senate's rules further to make it easier to confirm large groups of the least controversial executive branch nominees. But they have resisted calls from Trump to eliminate so-called “blue slips” that allow both senators to sign off on some lower court judges ...
... challenges to Trump’s order. That includes a requirement that all mailed ballots be received, rather than just postmarked, by Election Day. Other lawsuits against Trump’s election executive order are ongoing. In early April, 19 Democratic state attorneys general asked a separate federal court to reject Trump’s executive ...
President Donald Trump said "no" Friday when asked if he’s considering strikes in Venezuela. Watch Trump's remarks in the video player above. The president, who spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One as he heads to Florida for the weekend, gave a brief answer and did not elaborate ...
... Jesse Ferguson, who provided input, said Spanberger is doing well because she's “able to connect the pain from Washington to the pockets in Virginia.” “Trump’s authoritarianism will fail — not because we convince people it’s authoritarian, but because we show them it’s expensive," Ferguson said. Spanberger has ...
... aging populations and the impact of AI on jobs. The U.S. strategy has been shifted to economic competitions with China rather than cooperation, with Trump’s tariff hikes and “America first” agenda shaking markets and threatening decades of globalization and multinationalism. Leaders and other representatives from 21 Asia-Pacific ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he texted with President Donald Trump after his late night demand to change the Senate rules to end the government shutdown. Watch the full news conference held by Johnson and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in our video player above. But the GOP leader refused to ...
GOP cut SNAP in Trump's big bill The Republicans, who have majority control of Congress, find themselves in an unusual position, defending the furloughed federal workers and shuttered programs they have long sought to cut — including most recently with nearly $1 trillion in reductions in Trump's big tax ...
... immediately, starting immediately. Nick Schifrin: There was no agreement on whether to give China access to the U.S.' most advanced computer chips, but President Trump also didn't rule it out. Donald Trump: We discuss chips. And he's going to be -- they're going to be talking to ...
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