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Elon Musk speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Trump says he’s 'disappointed' with Musk after former backer turns on the Republican tax bill

Read full article: Trump says he’s 'disappointed' with Musk after former backer turns on the Republican tax bill

President Donald Trump says he’s “disappointed” with Elon Musk after his former backer and adviser lambasted his signature tax cuts and spending bill.

The United State Institute of Peace building is pictured, Monday, May 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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Elon Musk is gone, but DOGE's actions are hard to reverse. The US Institute of Peace is a case study

Read full article: Elon Musk is gone, but DOGE's actions are hard to reverse. The US Institute of Peace is a case study

Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency behind, but its playbook has impacted dozens of agencies, departments and organizations and left thousands of federal workers unemployed or in limbo.

FILE - Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Supreme Court makes it easier to claim 'reverse discrimination' in employment, in a case from Ohio

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A unanimous Supreme Court has made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and was demoted because she's straight.

An Afghan man passes in front of an air travel agency in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Governments scramble to understand Trump's latest travel ban before it takes effect Monday

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Governments of 12 countries whose citizens will be banned from visiting the United States starting next week are scrambling to understand President Donald Trump’s latest move to resurrect a hallmark policy of his first term.

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
1 hour ago

Trump says after Xi call that US and China will resume trade talks

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President Donald Trump says his first conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since returning to the White House had a “very positive conclusion," announcing the two countries will hold trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals.

President Donald Trump speaks during a summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
20 minutes ago

The Latest: Trump says it might be good to let Ukraine and Russia ‘fight for a while’

Read full article: The Latest: Trump says it might be good to let Ukraine and Russia ‘fight for a while’

President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

Sisters Abigail and Jennifer Lindsey stand by a sign they posted on their rural property outside New Braunfels in opposition to a large data center and power plant planned across the street, pictured May 27, 2025.
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Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas

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Not long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar energy. Now they’re bypassing the grid and building their own gas-fired power plants on site.

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2015 photo, then-U.S. Rep. David Jolly speaks to media after showing up at a news conference for former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, file)
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David Jolly, a Trump critic and former GOP congressman, to run for Florida governor as a Democrat

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A former Republican congressman and vocal critic of Donald Trump says he wants to become governor in the president’s adopted home state of Florida and is running as a Democrat.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
6 hours ago

Thune's first big test as Senate leader has arrived with Trump's tax bill

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Only six months into the job, Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces a massive challenge as he tries to quickly pass President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts package.

FILE - Steve Kramer is seated June 5, 2024, at Superior Court, in Laconia, N.H., during his arraignment in connection with charges of voter suppression and impersonating a candidate. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
13 hours ago

Consultant behind AI-generated robocalls mimicking Biden goes on trial in New Hampshire

Read full article: Consultant behind AI-generated robocalls mimicking Biden goes on trial in New Hampshire

A political consultant who sent voters artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking former President Joe Biden last year is set to go on trial.

President Donald Trump, right, meets Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Trump says it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia 'fight for a while'

Read full article: Trump says it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia 'fight for a while'

President Donald Trump said Thursday that it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

President Donald Trump speaks during a summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
14 hours ago

Here are the 12 countries Trump placed under travel bans, and the 7 newly under travel restrictions

Read full article: Here are the 12 countries Trump placed under travel bans, and the 7 newly under travel restrictions

President Donald Trump cited a range of reasons for placing 19 countries under new travel bans or restrictions in the U.S. They include allegations of lax screening of travelers, “a significant terrorist presence” in its territory, a government that wasn’t cooperative enough in accepting deported citizens or residents who were prone to overstaying their visas in the United States.

FILE - People walk between buildings, Dec. 17, 2024, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Trump moves to block US entry for foreign students planning to study at Harvard University

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President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body.

FILE - MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks at the SBJ CAA World Congress of Sport, April 22, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
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Trump's support of Rose among the voices Manfred listened to in ruling MLB ban ended with death

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President Donald Trump’s support of Pete Rose was among the factors Major Legaue Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred weighed when he decided last month that permanent bans by the sport ended with death, which allows the career hits leader to be considered for the Hall of Fame.

Tanks and other military vehicles are transported via railroad to Washington, D.C. for an upcoming parade for the Army's 250th anniversary, Monday, June 2, 2025, at Fort Cavazos near Killeen, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
18 hours ago

Army leaders defend parade and border spending as Congress presses for answers

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Army leaders are defending spending as much as $45 million to add a parade to the service’s 250th birthday celebration on June 14, saying it will help boost recruitment.

FILE - People vote at the Allegiant Stadium polling place, Nov. 5, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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Bipartisan deals on voting and election changes are rare. It just happened in one swing state

Read full article: Bipartisan deals on voting and election changes are rare. It just happened in one swing state

In a bipartisan move, Nevada's Democratic-controlled Legislature has passed a last-minute bill supported by the Republican governor that will require photo ID to vote in person.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
13 hours ago

Trump orders investigation into Biden's actions as president, ratcheting up targeting of predecessor

Read full article: Trump orders investigation into Biden's actions as president, ratcheting up targeting of predecessor

President Donald Trump is directing his administration to investigate Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and raising questions about his use of the autopen to sign pardons and other documents.

FILE - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. displays pictures of three civil rights workers, who were slain in Mississippi the summer before, from left Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, at a news conference Dec. 4, 1964, in New York, where he commended the FBI for its arrests in Mississippi in connection with the slayings. (AP Photo/JL, File)
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Judge weighs government's request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.

Read full article: Judge weighs government's request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives.

A judge has halted CoreCivic, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered facility that the private prison operator now calls the Midwest Regional Reception Center, in Leavenworth, Kan., pictured Monday, March 3, 2025, unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)
19 hours ago

Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

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A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials.

FILE - Prisoners look out of their cell as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get a chance to challenge their removals

Read full article: Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get a chance to challenge their removals

A federal judge says the Trump administration must give migrants sent to an El Salvador prison a chance to challenge their removals.

Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, second from left, joins a rally outside the U.S. Courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., where a federal judge in Maryland will hear arguments Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
20 hours ago

Unsealed records in Abrego Garcia case offer few details that are new, unknown

Read full article: Unsealed records in Abrego Garcia case offer few details that are new, unknown

A federal judge has ordered the unsealing of several court documents in the lawsuit over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation.

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) conducts a replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec. 13, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky/U.S. Navy via AP))
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San Francisco leaders blast Trump for trying to erase gay rights icon Harvey Milk's name from ship

Read full article: San Francisco leaders blast Trump for trying to erase gay rights icon Harvey Milk's name from ship

Leaders in San Francisco are blasting the Trump administration for stripping the name of gay icon Harvey Milk from a U.S. naval ship.