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Scoop: Senate Dems squeeze GOP on Trump's IVF promise

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) speaks alongside Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) during a news conference on access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments outside of the U.S. Capitol Building on June 12, 2024 in Washington, DC.

McConnell retirement sparks Kentucky political frenzy

Sen. Mitch McConnell, wearing a gray suit and sitting at a committee dais speaking into a microphone in front of flags and a brown wooden wall.
Updated Feb 20, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump rolls back protections for about 520,000 Haitian migrants

Immigrants from Haiti, who crossed through a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, wait in line to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 20, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. Title 42, the controversial pandemic-era border policy enacted by former President Trump, which cites COVID-19 as the reason to

Layoffs begin at the IRS, as DOGE cuts collide with tax season

The IRS sign on its headquarters building in Washington.

Target's diversity rollback sparks backlash from Black community

Target

Mexico targets American gun smugglers in response to naming cartels terrorists

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's president, during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, on Thursday, Feb. 20,

Senate confirms mega-MAGA loyalist Kash Patel as FBI director

Kash Patel

Scoop: U.S. and Ukraine discuss "improved" minerals deal after Trump raged at Zelensky

Bessent talking, Zelensky looking sad

Mitch McConnell, 83, won't seek reelection in 2026

Mitch McConnell, photographed from underneath, speaks at a lectern
Feb 20, 2025 - Economy

Inflation warning signs mount

What to know about Ukraine's rare earth minerals, which the U.S. wants

Scott Bessent, US Treasury secretary, and Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine's president, during a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine

Tracking Trump's executive actions by category

What to know about Fort Knox's gold depository that Musk wants audited

President Trump speaks to reporters while standing in a doorway on Air Force One.
Feb 20, 2025 - World

Trump's first month turns U.S. foreign policy upside down

Illustration of a collage featuring an eagle's talons, and maps of Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal among colorful blocks.

The economic peril of pivoting to Russia

Illustration of an American Flag with a Euro symbol hole burning through it.
Feb 20, 2025 - Business

CEO confidence at highest level in three years, new survey finds

Feb 20, 2025 - Economy

Coming this fall from Andrew Ross Sorkin: "1929," an immersive narrative on the Great Crash

Cover: Viking

Trump's mega-MAGA month transforms America

Photo illustration of a collage of President Trump surrounded by images of the White House, Congress, and his signature
Feb 20, 2025 - Business

Trump's historic war on traditional media

Courts become the final guardrail against Trump

One month of fear for groups targeted by Trump's executive orders

Photo illustration of protestors holding up "protect trans youth" signs and an American flag, with "no" symbols and the white hour and capitol dome in the background
Feb 20, 2025 - Health

Fatal drug overdoses are falling — but not everywhere

Updated Feb 19, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump's appeal on birthright citizenship order rejected by court

President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is to sign an executive order implementing the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) "workforce optimization initiative" this month.
Updated Feb 19, 2025 - Business

Commerce Secretary Lutnick: Trump's goal is to abolish the IRS

President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the Oval Office of the White House on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Trump's "dictator" slam of Zelensky rocks Capitol Hill

This is Donald Trump

Pentagon ordered to make $50B in budget cuts to spend on Trump priorities

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for a press conference at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Warsaw on February 14, 2025.
Feb 19, 2025 - Health

HHS redefines sex as "immutable" in new guidance

RFK Jr. at HHS swearing in.
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