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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
7 hours ago

How a fight over proxy voting for new parents upended the US House

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The U.S. House is rethinking its voting rules after a push from Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to allow proxy voting for new parents.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tours the Native Health Mesa Food Distribution Center in Mesa, Ariz., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
9 hours ago

RFK Jr. wants to target chronic disease in US tribes. A key program to do that was gutted

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A key program using traditional medicine and foods to tackle chronic disease in Native American and Alaska Native communities has been gutted in the federal health layoffs.

FILE - Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy gestures during a news conference, Dec. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska, in which he outlined his budget proposal for the coming year. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)
9 hours ago

Market volatility complicates work for lawmakers in Alaska, a state whose fortunes are tied to oil

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President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs and a related drop in oil prices have contributed to the uncertainty for Alaska lawmakers tasked each year with crafting a state budget based on volatile oil prices.

A U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter flies near the US-Mexico border as part of the Joint Task Force Southern Border as the border wall cuts across the landscape Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Douglas, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
15 hours ago

What we know about the Social Security Administration listing thousands of living immigrants as dead

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The Trump administration’s move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social Security numbers is an escalation of the president’s crackdown on people who were legally allowed to live in the U.S. under programs instituted by his predecessor.

President Donald Trump walks up the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
13 hours ago

Trump opens window for a deal with Iran but issues warning if things don't work out

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President Donald Trump is betting that a beleaguered Iran is so vulnerable following a tumultuous 18 months in the Middle East that it might finally be ready to abandon its nuclear program.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
15 hours ago

Picture of Trump after the assassination attempt displaces Obama portrait at the White House

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The White House has hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him last summer — bumping the official portrait of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama.

FILE - Rep. John James, R-MI., speaking on the first day of the Republican National Convention, Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
18 hours ago

Democrats flood competitive Michigan district as GOP incumbent seeks governor's office

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A number of Democrats are launching bids in a suddenly competitive House district in Michigan after the Republican incumbent earlier this week announced a run for governor.

FILE- In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo)
16 hours ago

Tufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in new court filing

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A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey has renewed a push for her release, saying in court documents that she feared for her life when she was detained by immigration officials on the streets of a Boston suburb.

FILE - A sign that prohibits the entrance of ICE or Homeland Security is posted on a door at St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church in New York, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
16 hours ago

Federal judge sides with Trump in allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship

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A federal judge is siding with the Trump administration in allowing immigration agents to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship despite a lawsuit filed by religious groups over the new policy.

The relatives of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. who were flown to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government who alleged they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, protest outside of the United Nations building in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
13 hours ago

From classifying immigrants as dead to deportation: A guide to actions on Trump immigration policies

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President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is playing out in hearings in key cases.

President Donald Trump attends the annual St. Patrick's Day luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
12 hours ago

Trump reaches deals with 5 law firms, allowing them to avoid prospect of punishing executive orders

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President Donald Trump has announced deals with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of a punishing executive order.

FILE - The sun rises above the Lincoln Memorial with the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol in the background, March 13, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
18 hours ago

Trump wants Congress to end the changing of clocks and keep the country on daylight saving time

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President Donald Trump is urging Congress to “push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day” in his latest dig at the semiannual changing of clocks.

Vice President JD Vance, left, listens to Col. Susan Meyers, right, during a briefing at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)
23 hours ago

Head of US Space Force base in Greenland is fired after Vance visit

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The commander of a U.S. Space Force base in Greenland has been fired after she sent a base-wide email breaking with official messaging following Vice President JD Vance’s visit to the Danish territory that President Donald Trump is seeking to annex.

President Donald Trump listens to Jeff Crowe speak during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
13 hours ago

The Latest: Trump administration offers no details on mistakenly deported man after court ruling

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A federal judge lambasted a government lawyer who couldn’t explain what, if anything, President Donald Trump’s administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Lt. Gen. John Caine (Retired), testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to examine his nomination to be promoted to general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
22 hours ago

Senate confirms Trump nominee Caine for chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff in overnight vote

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The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., make statements to reporters ahead of vote in the House to pass a bill on President Donald Trump's top domestic priorities of spending reductions and tax breaks, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
1 day ago

Now that they've passed a budget plan, the hard part begins for Republicans

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Republicans narrowly got their budget plan over the finish line this week.

FILE-Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks to the media in this July 19, 2023, file photo, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)
16 hours ago

Justice Department tasked with enforcing Trump's transgender sports ban in Maine

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Maine officials say the state will not comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports in the wake of a Trump administration finding that the state violated antidiscrimination laws by allowing the students to participate.

Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security data. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
1 day ago

Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say

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The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead.

FILE - Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman joins efforts to confront organized crime as the newly appointed leader of a specialized commission of local prosecutors and leading law enforcement officials, on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
1 day ago

Democratic prosecutor in crime-torn Albuquerque launches bid for New Mexico governor

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A Democratic district attorney in the eye of New Mexico’s tempest over crime and accountability is running for governor in the state as the National Guard prepares to deploy to New Mexico's largest city to shore up public safety.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
1 day ago

Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man

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The Supreme Court says the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.