76 m. ago Lawmakers urge Education Department to add nursing to 'professional' programs list amid uproar

A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the Education Department to add nursing to a list of college programs that are considered “professional.”

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17 h. ago Homeland Security Secretary Noem faces scrutiny over immigration policies at a House hearing

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is expected to face tough questions from Democrats over the Republican administration's immigration policies at a House hearing

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30 h. ago House passes sweeping defense policy bill amid tensions between Trump and Congress

Further provisions within the bill demand greater transparency on boat strikes in the Caribbean

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32 h. ago House is voting on a defense bill to raise troop pay and overhaul weapons purchases

The House is headed toward a final vote on a sweeping defense bill that authorizes $900 billion in military programs

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38 h. ago All of the suspected drug boat killings are murders | Kenneth Roth

There is no rule of law if the president can deem anyone an enemy combatant and order them summarily shotThe largely supine Republicans in Congress had no apparent trouble as Donald Trump and defense secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of suspected drug runners off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia. But suddenly they are up in arms because the Washington Post reported on 28 November about one incident, a double-tap strike, in which the US military finished off two survivors of an attack.Tempted as I am to accept whatever it takes to spark some minimal scrutiny of these summary executions, I hope this unexpected opening prompts broader investigation of this entire series of murders, which have now claimed 87 victims in 22 attacks. As Democrats join in, there are some indications that this expanded scrutiny may be finally beginning.Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), is a visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and Internatio...

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41 h. ago The Latest: Hegseth tells congressional leaders he is weighing release of boat strike video

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged drug boat that legal experts said may have been a war crime or murder, awakening the Republican-controlled Congress to its oversight role

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60 h. ago What to know about the massive defense bill that seeks release of boat strike videos and more

The House is expected to vote this week on a bill authorizing $900 billion for military programs

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62 h. ago Democrats push to ban Trump’s plan to put himself on a new $1 coin

“Trump’s self-celebrating maneuvers are authoritarian actions worthy of dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, not the United States of America,” one Senate Democrat said

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64 h. ago Trump says Pete Hegseth can testify before Congress over 2 September boat strike ‘if he wants’ – live

Trump also told Politico he has seen the video of the strikes; Hegseth and Rubio expected to brief ‘Gang of Eight’My colleague, Jakub Krupa, is covering the latest out of Europe on our dedicated live blog today. In his interview with Politico, Donald Trump dismissed EU leaders as “weak” and labelled Europe as a “decaying group of nations”.Trump also said he didn’t have much hopes about European involvement in Ukraine peace talks, as “they talk, but they don’t produce, and the war just keeps going on and on.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Republicans in Congress mocked Trump privately, Marjorie Taylor Greene says

Georgia lawmaker says colleagues who made fun of president before 2024 win now support him out of fearRepublicans in Congress privately made fun of Donald Trump only to come around to support him when he won their party’s 2024 White House nomination, outgoing GOP House member Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Sunday.“I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started – excuse my language, Lesley – kissing his ass,” Greene, a Georgia Republican, said in a clip of an interview that is set to air on Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes program. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Democrats urge Pentagon to release video of strike on alleged drug boat

Trump team faces mounting pressure as members of Congress allege that the deadly attack was unlawfulUS Democrats on Sunday pushed the Trump administration to release video of a second strike on an alleged drug boat incapacitated in the Caribbean, continuing to escalate pressure on the Pentagon amid accusations the attack was unlawful.Eleven people died in the 2 September attack, including two men killed in a follow-up strike as they reportedly clung to wreckage for an hour. That killing has been met with intense scrutiny and accusations of war crimes after the Washington Post reported defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill them all”. Adm Frank Bradley of the US navy, who oversaw the attack, told lawmakers on Thursday there was no such order – and the Pentagon has defended the legality of the attack. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago What to know about the air traffic control overhaul and the company FAA hired to manage it

The government picked a company with little experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration called Peraton to oversee the roughly $31.5 billion overhaul of the outdated air traffic control system

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6 d. ago US appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to halt grants for school mental health workers

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools

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7 d. ago Suspect arrested and named in case of pipe bombs planted on eve of January 6

Bombs were placed near Republican and Democratic party HQs in Washington night before US Capitol attackUS authorities on Thursday made an arrest in connection with pipe bombs that were planted outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington DC on the eve of 6 January 2021.Explosive devices were placed at night and then, on the afternoon of 6 January, the US Capitol attack occurred, when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed Congress in an effort to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Arrest reportedly made in attempted pipe bomb attack in lead

Bombs were placed near both Republican and Democratic party HQs in Washington DC the night before US Capitol attackUS authorities have made an arrest in connection with pipe bombs that were planted outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington DC on the eve of 6 January 2021, according to reports on Thursday morning.Explosive devices were placed at night and then, on the afternoon of January 6, the US Capitol attack occurred, when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed Congress in an effort to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Biden prosecutor who wanted Trump to die in prison is subpoenaed by Congress

Jack Smith led two criminal cases against Trump, who if convicted would have spent the rest of his life in prison.

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9 d. ago Epstein survivors call on Congress to force Trump administration to hand over financial records

Bank records at the Treasury Department could expose the sex trafficker’s ‘cross-border criminal organization,’ victims say

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1 week ago Why Trump and his Republican allies can’t agree on an Obamacare fix

President Trump’s call for giving payments directly to Americans makes passing anything harder for Republicans, but there’s little appetite for shoring up Obamacare even with a deadline imminent, writes John Bowden

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1 week ago The Tennessee race that has Donald Trump scared: Does it mean a blue wave is on the horizon?

The fact Republicans have to work so hard in a district Trump won by double digits does not portend well for the GOP, Eric Garcia writes

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1 week ago Yet another Trump ally announces his retirement from Congress in order to spend more time with their family

The Texas GOP lawmaker is one of dozens of lawmakers who have announced plans to exit Congress

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