Most Republican senators whose phone records were accessed in the investigation that led to special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 probe are backing away from a new statute in the shutdown-ending bill signed by President Donald Trump that would let them sue the government for up to $500,000 per instance...
BBC issued a personal apology to Donald Trump for a misleading edit of his Jan. 6 speech in a Panorama documentary, acknowledging it created the mistaken impression he urged violence. The broadcaster refused his lawyers’ $1 billion demand and denied defamation. In a retraction, it said the edit misled viewers...
Republicans defused a 43 day shutdown but face a closing window on health care, with enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expiring Dec. 31 and premiums more than double for tens of millions. House leaders are assembling bills that avoid renewing subsidies, while the White House weighs a conservative plan aligned...
Last week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood in the Oval Office and praised President Trump’s drug pricing deal for weight loss drugs, thanking the chiefs of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. The move marked a sharp turn from his past attacks on such medications and their makers. The...
After fisherman Alejandro Carranza vanished on a September trip, his family and President Gustavo Petro say he died in a U.S. strike on Sept. 15, one of 20 boat attacks since then. The Trump administration says the targets carried drugs but has shown limited evidence, while legal experts call the...
President Trump’s recent moves, from dining with Wall Street titans and backing visas for skilled foreigners to approving a $20 billion Argentina bailout during the shutdown, are fraying his populist brand and stirring dissent inside his MAGA ranks. Tensions rose as he resisted further Epstein disclosures while Congress released emails....
Late-night comics took aim at Republican-released Trump emails and the end of a 43-day government shutdown. Josh Johnson joked the G.O.P. only inflamed the situation by dumping more messages, while Jimmy Fallon riffed on file-dumping, jubilant air traffic controllers, and pilots liberated from Google Maps. Fallon noted the stopgap deal...
Erik Bottcher, a Democratic city councilman from downtown Manhattan, entered the race to succeed Representative Jerrold Nadler in New York’s 12th District, joining a crowded primary that includes Jack Schlossberg, Micah Lasher, Alex Bores and others. Framing his bid through his L.G.B.T.Q. activism and personal mental health story, Bottcher highlighted...
More than 1.4 million federal workers could start seeing paychecks as soon as this weekend, after a 43-day shutdown ended with House passage of a funding package that President Trump signed. An OMB schedule, first reported by Semafor and confirmed to CBS News, aims to clear back pay by Nov....
President Trump signed a bill ending the longest U.S. government shutdown, reopening agencies after 43 days. Federal workers are returning Thursday, with back pay guaranteed but deposits varying by agency; travel disruptions may linger. Longer fallout looms, from national parks’ lost revenue to IRS refund delays, and funding only runs...
