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Harvard ban is warning to other universities, Noem says

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a hearing with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Capitol Hill on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Noem attended the hearing to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2026 f

Scoop: Primary challengers circle Thomas Massie after Trump-defying vote

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Scoop: House Democrats want a long-awaited age reckoning

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Trump defies ethics warnings with private meme coin dinner

Updated May 22, 2025 - Economy

Supreme Court says Trump can fire agency heads for now, but insulates Fed

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Updated May 22, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Man charged with murder in shooting of Israeli Embassy employees

FBI agents cordon off the scene outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead late Wednesday, May 21, outside a Jewish museum in Washington by a gunman who shouted "
Updated May 22, 2025 - Politics & Policy

House GOP demands Biden's doctor, advisers testify on his health

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Trump admin nixes Harvard's ability to enroll international students

The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Monday, May 5, 2025. President Donald Trump said Harvard University would lose its tax-exempt status, stepping up his attack on the Ivy League school with a threat that was decried as out of his jurisdiction. Photographer: Mel Musto/B
Updated May 22, 2025 - Politics & Policy

What to know about the Israeli Embassy employees killed in D.C.

Sarah Lynn Milgrim stands next to Yaron Lischinsky as they pose for a photo. The backdrop reads "Israel" and they are flanked by American and Israeli flags.

NOAA warns of heightened hurricane season while Trump eyes disaster response cuts

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2 Israeli Embassy staff killed near Capital Jewish Museum in D.C., officials say

A man draped in the Israeli flag, bearing a cross and the name "Jesus" at its center, gestures as Metropolitan Police officers secure the area outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025.
May 22, 2025 - World

Iran threatens to move nuclear material to secret sites to thwart Israeli strike

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Thune threatens Putin with sanctions on Russia

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference after the senate luncheons
Updated May 22, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump's Education Department closure and layoffs blocked by federal judge

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May 22, 2025 - Health

5 key takeaways from the MAHA commission report

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May 22, 2025 - Economy

Why the bond market is barfing

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May 22, 2025 - Technology

OpenAI, UAE to build massive AI center in Abu Dhabi

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House passes Trump's "big, beautiful bill" after tense GOP talks

Trump and Mike Johnson standing next to each other in a white marble hallway while wearing blue suits.
May 22, 2025 - Economy

Middle class? Depends who you ask in Congress

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May 22, 2025 - Business

Lutnick's bold bet: Trade deals are coming, higher prices aren't

Axios' Mike Allen interviews Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at an event in D.C. last night.
May 22, 2025 - Technology

OpenAI's big hardware bet

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Retail heavyweights torn over how to handle tariff pain

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GOP renames $1000-per-baby MAGA Accounts to "Trump Accounts"

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Updated May 21, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump leans into widely disputed claims about "white genocide" in South Africa

President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa (2nd-R) and U.S. President Donald Trump (R) look on as a video plays in the Oval Office of the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Updated May 21, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump admin deportations to South Sudan violated court order, judge rules

The seal of the US Department of Homeland Security outside the Nogales-Mariposa port of entry on the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, US, on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. President Donald Trump said he would likely impose tariffs on automobile, semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports of around 25%, a
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