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President Trump is facing increasing resistance from Republicans in Congress to certain proposals and parts of his agenda as he nears the end of his first year back in office.
Trump remains the unquestioned leader of the Republican Party, and aides have argued that any lawmakers who fall out of line risk facing a primary or losing the president's support. But that hasn't stopped GOP lawmakers from criticizing Trump's actions or rebuffing some of his demands.
A handful of Republicans bucked public pressure from the White House earlier this month to sign a discharge petition to force the release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. That break with the White House is perhaps a sign of things to come. |
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When U.S. District Judge William Young ruled this summer that the Trump administration illegally canceled hundreds of research grants focused on gender identity or diversity, he went further than just striking the revocations down.
The Reagan-appointed judge, who took the bench in 1985, said it was his "unflinching obligation" to draw the conclusion that the administration's move amounted to racial discrimination and discrimination against the LGBTQ community.
"That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out," the judge said. "My duty is to call it out." |
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Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) announced Saturday that he will not seek reelection in next year's midterm elections but instead focus on his family.
"After more than 30 years in law enforcement serving and protecting my community as a police officer, constable, Fort Bend County Sheriff, an Army veteran, and six years representing this district in Congress, I have made the decision, after conversations with my beautiful bride and my girls over the Thanksgiving holiday, to focus on my family and return home after this Congress," Nehls wrote in a statement, shared on the social platform X. |
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The leaders of the House Armed Services Committee said late Saturday they are seeking "full accounting" of an early September U.S. military attack against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean after a report alleged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. troops to "kill everybody" aboard the vessel.
"This committee is committed to providing rigorous oversight of the Department of Defense's (DOD) military operations in the Caribbean," Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the chair of the House committee, and Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the panel, said in a joint statement.
"We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question," the duo stated. |
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A Russian drone strike killed at least three people in Ukraine's capital early Saturday morning while wounding at least 29 others, according to The Associated Press.
Two individuals were killed in Kyiv, while the other death occurred in the broader region, the Kyiv City Military Administration announced. The Kremlin strikes consisted of both missiles and drones, per the AP.
The attack comes amid diplomatic talks with leaders from Moscow and Kyiv and support from the United States for ending the more than three-year war in Eastern Europe. |
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The National Guard shooting in Washington earlier this week brought the Biden-era "Operation Allies Welcome" back into the spotlight as an Afghan national faces a first-degree murder charge following the incident.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was taken into custody Wednesday after shots rang out just blocks away from the White House. Injured in the shooting, the suspect was hospitalized along with U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24. Beckstrom died on Thursday. Lakanwal is also facing three counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence and two counts of assault with intent to kill while armed.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confirmed that he previously worked with them and U.S. troops in Afghanistan during its 20-year war. |
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President Trump's announcement earlier this month that he will push for a ceasefire in Sudan has been welcomed by officials and experts as shining a light on a devastating conflict that has fueled the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
But experts are cynical that a breakthrough will materialize, citing the administration's shallow diplomacy, Trump's conflict of interests with the war's international backers and the president's seeming unwillingness to exert meaningful pressure. |
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A Republican state Senator from Indiana on Friday said he will vote against President Trump's redistricting effort in his state after the president used a slur demeaning people with disabilities in his online spat with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).
"Many of you have asked my position on redistricting," state Sen. Michael Bohacek (R) wrote in a Facebook post. "I have been an unapologetic advocate for people with intellectual disabilities since the birth of my second daughter. Those of you that don't know me or my family might not know that my daughter has Down Syndrome. "This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his choices of words have consequences," Bohacek continued. "I will be voting NO on redistricting, perhaps he can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority." |
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OPINION | President Donald Trump's nomination of Stuart Levenbach to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has already drawn the predictable outrage from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and her allies. But for millions of Americans who rely on accessible, affordable financial products, the move represents something far more important: the beginning of the end of a decade-long regulatory experiment that punished consumers in the name of protecting them.
And it couldn't come soon enough. |
OPINION | A recent campaign ad in Georgia that used an AI generated video of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) saying things he never said is appropriately getting attention because of the ethical questions it raises. The answer to the ethical question is that it's wrong, campaigns shouldn't make things up about their opponents. But it's not wrong because the ad uses artificial intelligence. The ad is wrong because it makes stuff up. AI isn't the problem, lying is the problem.
The Republican attack ad is not the first, and will certainly not be the last, to get headlines for using AI to generate nonsense. In early 2024, an unpopular sheriff in Philadelphia got in trouble for using AI to generate what looked like real and glowing coverage in local media outlets. The media outlets were real, but the stories were fake. As with the most recent ad, AI got the headlines, but the lying was the problem. |
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BY CECILIA KANG, TRIPP MICKLE, RYAN MAC, DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY AND THEODORE SCHLEIFER |
In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House. He had convened top government officials and Silicon Valley executives for a forum on the booming business of artificial intelligence.
The guest of honor was President Trump, who unveiled an "A.I. Action Plan" that was drafted in part by Mr. Sacks, a longtime venture capitalist. In a nearly hourlong speech, Mr. Trump declared that A.I. was "one of the most important technological revolutions in the history of the world." Then he picked up his pen and signed executive orders to fast-track the industry. |
BY ALEX LEARY AND VERA BERGENGRUEN |
In this Miami suburb, support for President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is causing anxiety over the administration's immigration crackdown.
Residents of Doral, home to the largest Venezuelan community in the U.S., are bursting with hope that the administration's unprecedented military buildup in the Caribbean will lead to Maduro's ouster. Thousands of immigrants settled in this South Florida city—dubbed "Little Venezuela"—after fleeing hunger, repression and economic collapse under Maduro's rule. |
The Afghan man accused of gunning down two National Guard members blocks from the White House last week had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weeks-long cross-country drives. His behavior deteriorated so sharply that a community advocate reached out to a refugee organization for help, fearing he was becoming suicidal.
Emails obtained by The Associated Press reveal mounting warnings about the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an asylum seeker whose erratic conduct raised alarms long before the attack that jolted the nation's capital on the eve of Thanksgiving. The previously unreported concerns offer the clearest picture yet of how he was struggling in his new life in the United States. |
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