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By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are getting closer to passing President Donald Trump’s tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security as Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to pass the package over unified Democratic opposition by Memorial Day. House committees have labored for months on the legislation, which

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, MICHAEL CASEY, REBECCA SANTANA and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries with a flight linked to the chaotic African nation of South Sudan, a federal judge said Wednesday, hours after the Trump administration said it had expelled eight immigrants

By The Associated Press Despite risks that President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package could stall due to conservative holdouts, House Speaker Mike Johnson and his GOP leadership team appeared confident that they will be able to stick to their schedule and shore up Republican support for final passage before Memorial Day. Next steps are

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge in New Jersey on Wednesday ordered Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver released on her own recognizance during the congresswoman’s first court appearance on assault charges stemming from immigration officials’ attempt to arrest Newark’s mayor at a detention facility. McIver appeared remotely from Washington as

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin could go down as billionaire Elon Musk’s last big spend on a political campaign. And it was a flop. Musk, the richest person in the world, said Tuesday that he would be spending less on political campaigns. The announcement came as Musk is stepping back

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING, LEAH ASKARINAM and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package at risk of stalling, House Speaker Mike Johnson and conservative Republican holdouts are heading Wednesday to the White House for the last-ditch talks to salvage the “big, beautiful bill.” Johnson, R-La., had

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn’t the only one who wrapped up a Middle East tour in recent days. A private jet carrying Nvidia’s CEO trailed Air Force One across the region. Oil executives and bankers followed, too, as American executives dropped everything — canceling longstanding

By NADIA LATHAN Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday to clarify medical exceptions under one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S., putting the GOP-backed proposal on the brink of reaching Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. The changes would not expand abortion access in Texas

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS of The Associated Press, NEAL MORTON and ARIEL GILREATH of The Hechinger Report and SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK and REBECCA GRIESBACH of AL.com For the last two months of their life in the United States, José Alberto González and his family spent nearly all their time in their one-bedroom Denver apartment. They didn’t

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after congressional Republicans recommended that he be charged with lying over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The investigation by

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MARC LEVY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Progressive stalwart Larry Krasner has won Philadelphia’s Democratic primary election Tuesday to continue serving as district attorney after withstanding an impeachment attempt and years of criticism by President Donald Trump and other Republicans. Krasner’s victory all but guarantees him a third four-year term in

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Progressive stalwart Larry Krasner wins Philadelphia’s Democratic primary for a third term as district attorney.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge orders US officials to retain control of migrants sent to South Sudan in case removals were unlawful.

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against a prominent conservative activist in Houston related to allegations he had been part of what authorities have called a baseless voter fraud conspiracy theory in which a man was run off the road and held at gunpoint over claims

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Former President Joe Biden’s “last known” prostate cancer screening was in 2014, and he had never been diagnosed with the disease before last week, his office said Tuesday. Biden’s aides released the new details about his diagnosis amid intense scrutiny of Biden’s health during his presidency and skepticism that

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts issued the ruling late Tuesday after an emergency hearing, after attorneys

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into hiring practices at the city of Chicago, according to a letter shared on social media and sent to the Chicago mayor’s office. The probes announcement Monday came a day after Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke at a Chicago church

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military veteran whose Capitol riot case was erased by a presidential proclamation was convicted Tuesday of charges that he illegally possessed guns and ammunition in his van when he was arrested near President Barack Obama’s home in the nation’s capital. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols also

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Maine legislature to count the votes of a GOP lawmaker who was censured after she identified a transgender teen athlete in a viral social-media post. The court majority sided with Rep. Laurel Libby, who filed an emergency

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border. She called habeas corpus “a constitutional right that the president has to be

By GISELA SALOMON and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press As part of the Trump administration’s push to carry out mass deportations, the agency responsible for immigration enforcement has aggressively revived and expanded a decades-old program that delegates immigration enforcement powers to state and local law enforcement agencies. Under the 287(g) program led by Immigration and Customs

WASHINGTON (AP) — US immigration officials appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, attorneys say.

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, THOMAS BEAUMONT and RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a key financial supporter of President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he’ll be spending “a lot less” on political campaigns, a reversal that could be a setback for Republicans ahead of next

By MIKE CATALINI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press Federal prosecutors alleged Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey pushed and grabbed officers while attempting to block the arrest of the Newark mayor outside an immigration detention facility, according to charges in court papers unsealed on Tuesday. In an eight-page complaint, interim U.S.

By FERNANDA FIGUEROA and AARON MORRISON Associated Press After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the combusted landmark lit the internet ablaze with mass jubilation and consternation over the weekend. For

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A Virginia man has been charged with felony burglary after being pardoned for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, which included smashing the door panel that rioter Ashli Babbitt tried to breach before police shot her. Zachary Jordan Alam, 33, of Centreville, was arrested May 9 in a neighborhood

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced the concept he wants for his future Golden Dome missile defense program — a multilayered, $175 billion system that for the first time will put U.S. weapons in space. Speaking Tuesday from the Oval Office, Trump said he expects the system will

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa sheriff is warning that his county may be publicly shamed by the Trump administration for insufficiently backing the president’s immigration agenda, though he says he is “more than happy” to help. He said he just wants to ensure he doesn’t end up with

By The Associated Press Immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan despite a court order on removals to third countries, attorneys for the migrants said Tuesday. Up to a dozen people from several countries may have been deported to Africa, immigration rights lawyers told a judge. The

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court judge who was an outspoken supporter of abortion rights in the state Legislature announced Tuesday that she is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, taking on an incumbent conservative justice who sided with President Donald Trump in his failed attempt to overturn