Top senators consider blocking Trump's grant shakeup in spending stopgap  —  Senate leaders are deciding whether to block President Donald Trump from finalizing a plan to put political appointees in charge of approving grants, Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins said Thursday.

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference  —  State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil  —  A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation …

‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump's Unprecedented Fundraising Operation  —  Meredith O'Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out president's desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects  —  WASHINGTON—Almost every night in the White House …

Democrats' novel red-state strategy: From the Politics Desk  —  Plus, another shake-up in the Wisconsin governor's race. … Democrats pursue a new Senate strategy in rural states: Dropping out  —  By Sahil Kapur  —  Facing slim prospects in rural red states, Democrats are embarking …

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations  —  In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment …

Trump announces a deal for Hamas to disarm in Gaza, but many hurdles and uncertainty remain  —  President Donald Trump said Thursday that a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza, but many hurdles, conditions and long timelines remained to wind down the war in the Palestinian territory.

Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies  —  The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seven companies.

Senate education committee blocks parts of Trump's Education Department breakup  —  The Senate education committee approved legislation to stop four of the Trump administration's deals to downsize the Education Department.  In a 13-9 vote, the Senate HELP Committee advanced S. 5046 …

Fox News Poll: GOP divisions shape Texas Senate race  —  President Donald Trump won the Lone Star state by nearly 14 percentage points in 2024, but a new Fox News Poll of Texas registered voters suggests this year's Senate race is far less settled.  Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton …

Trump's ‘Freedom Haulers’ event revealed something deeply unsettling about the president and his team  —  Trump struggled to speak off-script and his transportation secretary jumped in to praise him.  It was an uncomfortable dynamic that speaks to what's happening behind the scenes, writes , Holly Baxter

The Trump administration is ending a Medicare drug subsidy program.  Here's how it could affect costs  —  Millions of older adults on Medicare prescription drug coverage could face steeper monthly costs in 2027, after the Trump administration concludes a temporary subsidy program that has helped offset premiums for the past two years.

Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service  —  The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump's dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center.  —  The John F. Kennedy Center …

Trump's noncitizen voter data remains a mystery.  But the claims raise midterm fears  —  Two weeks after Trump officials said they had found more than 250,000 non-U.S. citizens on voter rolls in just four states, election officials are still struggling to understand where the numbers came from …

5th federal appeals court rejects ICE mass detention policy  —  A fifth federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's bid to subject millions of immigrants — most of whom have lived in the U.S. for years without criminal records — to mandatory detention without bond.

White House eyes reopening oil refineries amid high gasoline prices  —  The Trump administration is looking to reopen closed oil refineries, including an embattled one in the Virgin Islands, amid high gasoline prices spurred by the Iran war.  —  A White House official confirmed to The Hill …

Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — The Defense Department is considering its most sweeping remake of military higher education, according to an unreleased draft memorandum obtained …

Exclusive: RFK Jr. hosting a new cooking show with celebrity chefs  —  RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines push protein at every meal, full-fat dairy, vegetables, fruits and whole grains.  The slogan, ‘Eat Real Food’ is mantra embraced by his circle of influencers.  —  WASHINGTON − Get ready for some sauerkraut-infused meals.

Donald Trump v. Hillary Clinton is coming to the Supreme Court  —  The president said he wants to petition the justices in the 2016 election-related case.  —  President Donald Trump wants to add another one of his personal cases to the Supreme Court's docket: his bid to revive a lawsuit …

Tina Peters and other election deniers claim they've pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan”  —  Multiple figures behind the proposal have also urged Trump to declare a “national emergency” over the midterm elections  —  A group of activists …

Here Are the Republicans' Biggest Lies From Their Fauci Show Trial  —  In their retelling of the COVID story, the doctor was the bad guy, the vaccines were deadly, and Trump did everything right.  —  REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING for five years to rewrite the history of Donald Trump's two biggest moral crimes.

GOP Fiscal Responsibility Is Always a Bill Away  —  STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE: Republicans are on the verge of finally fixing our out-of-control budget deficits.  —  But first they need to get just one more unfunded spending binge out of their system—and then (they swear) they'll get around to that purge.

South Korea Evacuates Border Residents After US Drone Mix-Up  —  South Korea ordered residents near the heavily-armed border with North Korea to evacuate after the military mistook a US drone participating in a joint exercise as an unidentified aircraft and prepared to shoot it down.

Kansas Supreme Court deals final blow to GOP bid to throw out late-arriving mail ballots  —  In a decisive win for voters, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab's (R) final emergency effort to revive a strict Election Day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots right before the state's primary.

Amused Eagles DC copied Anthony Fauci's pleading the Fifth: ‘Did you guys see that?’  —  Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio couldn't help but laugh when he brought up controversial scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment in a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday.

Report: Maine Democrat Troy Jackson, Longtime Partner Are Second Cousins with 2 Children  —  Maine Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson and his longtime partner are second cousins who share two children, according to reports published Thursday.  —  The Maine Wire reported that Jackson …

At least 11 Bay Area residents have been detained in ICE airport crackdown  —  A newlywed on her way home after celebrating her marriage to her American husband with friends.  —  A professional athlete who'd previously been granted a visa for sportsmen with extraordinary abilities.