A measure to direct an end to U.S. engagement in Iran was adopted with a handful of Republicans in support, sending a signal of opposition to the president’s handling of the war.The vote on Wednesday was the latest reflection of divisions between Republicans in Congress and President Trump on a rang
The president’s unilateral and retributive style of governing is starting to hit a wall in both chambers of Congress.President Trump departing the White House in May. On Wednesday, four House Republicans sided with Democrats to demand Mr. Trump withdraw U.S. forces from the conflict with Iran.
Four Republicans from different ideological factions crossed party lines to vote with Democrats in favor of reining in the president’s power to wage war unilaterally.
After G.O.P. leaders blocked additional aid to Ukraine, six Republicans and an independent joined Democrats to force the measure to the floor against the wishes of the speaker.Damage from Russian strikes in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in February. The House took up legislation that aims to target Russi
Several Republicans suggested they would insist on adding a measure to bar the president from creating a fund to pay people who claim to be victims of government persecution.A vote on Wednesday set the stage for a lengthy vote-a-thon that could culminate in passage of the immigration enforcement bil
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said on Tuesday that the administration was “not moving forward with the fund, period,” after the plan drew bipartisan backlash.President Trump on Wednesday in the Oval Office. In one of his first official acts of his second term, Mr. Trump issued a grant o
Critics say it is unseemly for retired judges to trade on the prestige of their former positions.President Trump at the White House last month.
Originally estimated to cost $2.4 million, the government will now spend $5 million to restore the bronzes in time for Independence Day.Workers built scaffolding around one of the two The Arts of Peace statues near the Lincoln Memorial for a restoration project in Washington.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani lent his political star power to an unusual TV ad promoting three Democrats running for House seats in New York City.
The $135 share price means Elon Musk’s rocket maker is poised to exceed the 2019 initial public offering of Saudi Aramco in both valuation and money raised.SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifted off last month during a test flight from Starbase in Texas.
Mehdi Taj said his federation has been dealing with FIFA, not the United States, in trying to obtain visas for Iran to play in the tournament that begins next week.Mehdi Taj being interviewed by a reporter in Tehran last month. Mr. Taj said mixed messages from Washington had created confusion over I
In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.“Despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately we weren’t able to do so, and so we had to part way
In an emergency ruling on Tuesday night, the court’s conservative majority gave a first glimpse into congressional district battles under a weakened Voting Rights Act.The Supreme Court’s emergency Alabama ruling provided a look into how it may handle congressional district battles going forward.
The presidential center that opens this month seems out of step with the zeitgeist of the moment and produces emotional reactions among the discontented of the Trump era.
The governor said the Department of Homeland Security’s actions at Delaney Hall raise “serious questions.”Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Senator Andy Kim, right, have expressed concerns about conditions at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center.
A report by the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog described officers putting one man in a chokehold and stabbing another with a pen.The Winn Correctional Center, an ICE detention facility in Winnfield, La. Multiple instances of mistreatment were documented at the correctional cente
The immigrants had been working as fruit pickers in southern Italy, the authorities said, apparently as part of a system of criminal labor trafficking.Surveillance footage showed two people dousing a van with fuel and blocking the doors as the vehicle and its passengers burned in Calabria, Italy, on
A challenging art market is forcing even an established player to contract.“The whole art gallery art system became too big, too commercial, too impersonal and too corporate,” Marc Glimcher, the chief executive of Pace Gallery, said.
Too many women walk out of their doctors’ office with no diagnosis, no treatment and no plan.
You spend your whole childhood trying to look different from your dad, only to wake up and see his forehead in the mirror.
Michael Kosta wasn’t impressed to see that the L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt “got a second-season pickup” after Tuesday’s midterms.
The New World screwworm was found in a calf in South Texas, the Agriculture Department said, the first case in the country since the 1960s.The New World screwworm fly has been moving north since it was detected at the Guatemalan-Mexican border in 2024.
