Exclusive: Trump targets birth tourism and citizenship in new executive orders … - Children born of foreign diplomatic staff working on behalf of another government while in the U.S. The 14th Amendment doesn't confer automatic citizenship on ambassadors' families, and this order would expand …

Trump Vows to Keep Blanche Acting AG If Confirmation Fails  —  President Donald Trump said he would keep Todd Blanche as acting attorney general if his confirmation fails in the Senate as Blanche's path to staying as the head of the Department of Justice narrowed with another Republican defection.

This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature  —  Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes.  Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.  —  For the first time, scientists have used artificial intelligence …

Why Max Miller is staying in (for now)  —  Denounced on social media and by fellow Republicans, Ohio Rep. Max Miller is telling allies he's not quitting for a simple reason: It would be tantamount to admitting he beat his ex-wife and their child, which he denies.

Trump Orders Leak Probe After Venting About Media Coverage of Munitions Stockpile  —  Move follows weeks of headlines describing depleted munitions levels  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump has ordered new investigations into the disclosures of the Pentagon's munitions stockpile …

McConnell Announces Discharge From Rehabilitation Center  —  The Kentucky Republican has been absent from Congress for nearly two months after a health episode.  He said he would continue recovering from home.  —  Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, said on Thursday …

Trump Says He'll Start Spending Campaign Cash on Midterms  —  President Donald Trump said he would open the purse strings on the massive amount of campaign cash he controls to support Republican candidates in November's midterm elections.  —  Asked if he was planning on dipping into his political operation …

JD Vance's Senate lunch visit dominated by Iran  —  Vice President JD Vance fielded questions on Iran — lots of them — during a closed-door lunch with Senate Republicans Thursday.  Vance's visit to Capitol Hill came as the Senate is trying to wrap up a massive to-do list ahead …

Stevens says of El-Sayed: “Differences were aired out” and “we did the unity deal”  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan said Thursday she's moving on from the contentious Senate primary, which she lost to Abdul El-Sayed, saying their “differences were aired out.”

Trump Says Hormuz Talks ‘Moving Along’ Even as Iran Mulls US Ban  —  US President Donald Trump said negotiations between Iran and Oman over the Strait of Hormuz are “moving along,” even after some Iranian lawmakers said they would seek to bar American and Israeli ships from the waterway as part of the deal.

Rep. Andy Ogles loses his Republican primary in Tennessee  —  Ogles lost despite having President Donald Trump's endorsement, NBC News projects.  Former state Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher will be the GOP nominee.  —  Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee has lost his Republican primary …

Judge Dismisses Former Olympian's Felony Charge in Reflecting Pool Case  —  The move ends the criminal case for David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, after prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration's claims of vandalism were false.  —  A judge in Washington dismissed …

Jeanine Pirro berated Doug Burgum.  But Interior staffers have been angry at him for months.  —  Interior Department staffers were optimistic after Doug Burgum was confirmed to lead the agency in 2025, believing he had strong executive experience as governor of energy-rich North Dakota who led successful tech startups and businesses.

ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency's ‘best interests,’ policy says  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency's policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public …

Exclusive: GOP plans socialism telethon at midterm convention  —  Republicans plan to use their first-ever midterm convention in Dallas next month to mount a sweeping, made-for-prime-time case that Democrats have become captive to their activist left, Axios has learned.

“No escape:” Inside Rubio's Cuba pressure campaign  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is waging an unprecedented economic war on Cuba — and wants to make sure the island's communist leaders know it's going to get worse.  — “What we're trying to teach them is, there are no escape valves,” Rubio told Axios.

How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump's Washington  —  A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark.  This is the untold back story of the fallout.  —  TIMES INVESTIGATION