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By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When the House of Representatives adjourned for a two-week recess Thursday, it left Washington, D.C., elected officials scrambling to fill a $1.1 billion hole in the capital city’s budget, despite personal public directives from President Donald Trump for Republicans to address the issue. The House’s failure to

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey is demanding her release after she was detained by immigration officials near her Massachusetts home, detailing how she was scared when the men grabbed her phone and feared she would be killed. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who has since been moved to an Immigration

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday 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. Hanging a new presidential likeness without advance notice is

BOSTON (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker in Massachusetts was arrested and charged Friday with defrauding a trade association of tens of thousands of dollars and then falsifying records to cover up the scheme. Christopher Flanagan, of Dennis, Massachusetts, was indicted Friday on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records.

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a surprise announcement Friday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said she will not seek a third term in office. Reynolds, a Republican, has held the position since 2017, when former Gov. Terry Branstad was appointed U.S. ambassador to China. She was elected to full terms

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s elected treasurer is asking the state’s highest court to stop a hearing later this month to start the process of removing him from office over a $1.8 billion accounting error that has plagued the state for nearly a decade. The Republican-dominated South Carolina Senate

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected President Donald Trump ‘s effort to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against him filed by the men formerly known as the Central Park Five who were exonerated after spending more than a decade in prison for the 1989 rape and beating of

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds announces she will not seek reelection in 2026.

By The Associated Press A federal judge on Friday 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. The U.S. government attorney struggled to provide any

By JESSE BEDAYN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — U.S. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is running for Colorado governor next year, saying in an interview with The Associated Press that he could better oppose President Donald Trump from the governor’s office. Bennet, whose practical approach to Democratic politics has been punctuated

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, filling the position almost two months after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor. Trump nominated Caine to become the top U.S. military

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans narrowly got their budget plan over the finish line. Now comes the hard part. The resolution adopted this week was only a first step that allows Republicans to draft legislation that they can push through Congress without Democratic support. Next, they begin crafting a final bill

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials said Friday 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. The U.S. Education Department said in March

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had an annual physical Friday and concluded, “I did well,” praising his own heart, soul and cognitive ability while noting medical reports from White House doctors may not be ready until the weekend. The 78-year-old, who in January became the oldest in U.S. history

By WILL WEISSERT and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their Social Security numbers and effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country, according to two people

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Democratic district attorney in the eye of New Mexico’s tempest over crime and accountability launched his candidacy for governor Thursday as the National Guard prepares to deploy to the state’s largest city to shore up public safety. Albuquerque-based District Attorney Sam Bregman — the

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s story begins in his native El Salvador, but it’s become increasingly unclear where it will end. The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return to the U.S. from a notorious Salvadoran prison, rejecting the White House’s claim that it couldn’t retrieve Abrego

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Public officials in 16 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Thursday to restore access to pandemic relief aid for schools, saying the Education Department’s abrupt halt of hundreds of millions of dollars of promised funding will force cuts to vital services. The lawsuit was filed in

By KATE PAYNE and JOHN HANNA Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A new Kansas law and a Florida bill outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them. The Kansas Legislature’s Republican supermajorities on Thursday overrode Democratic

By DIDI TANG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump tries to turn his global trade war into a one-on-one showdown with China, he is finding that he has alienated some key U.S. partners who could boost America’s position in a fight between the world’s largest and second-largest economies. For

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday defended a state agency’s involvement with a $10 million donation to a charity founded by his wife as a “cherry on top” deal using funds from a settlement between the agency and the state’s largest Medicaid contractor. DeSantis

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy will soon be made public as more than 100 people have been working “around the clock” to scan them, U.S. Director of National Intelligence

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who has pushed a discredited theory that routine childhood shots cause the developmental

By MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land has withdrawn her nomination following revelations that she criticized the Republican president in 2021 for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The withdrawal of

By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As stocks tanked on tariff fears, Marjorie Taylor Greene showed her faith in the president not just with words but dollar bills. The Republican congresswoman, an avid supporter of the Trump administration’s trade policies, not only bought stocks last week as others dumped them in

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new government task force will consider big changes to America’s intelligence community and examine whether material about the origins of COVID-19 and other topics of public interest should be declassified, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said. Known as the Director’s Initiatives Group, the panel will

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — You know those email signatures at the end of messages? The ones that include a range of information about the senders — phone numbers, addresses, social media handles. And in recent years, pronouns — letting the recipient know that the sender goes by “she,” “he,” “they”

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. House on Thursday approved legislation requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for anyone registering to vote, something voting rights group have warned could disenfranchise millions of Americans. The requirement has been a top election-related priority for President Donald Trump and House Republicans, who argue

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the aftermath of this week’s tariff whiplash, President Donald Trump is deciding exactly what he wants out of trade talks with as many as 75 nations in the coming weeks. Trump is also figuring out next steps with China. He upped his tariffs on Chinese goods

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man already jailed on federal charges of attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as he golfed last fall will face additional state terrorism and attempted murder charges, Florida’s attorney general said Thursday. Ryan Routh tried to undermine the country’s political system and