The Kennedy Center shut down this week because the executive director felt the building was no longer safe, but could reopen in a week, government lawyers told a federal judge on Thursday.
House Republican leaders are sending members home Wednesday until after the November election, condensing their pre-midterm schedule in Washington for the second time.
The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool released Wednesday by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists.
Two House Republicans in battleground Iowa districts, including one who recently campaigned alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, changed their position on an Iran war powers resolution, joining with Democrats and a few other dissident members of their party in an attempt to halt President Donald Trump's ability to continue military action without congressional approval.
The Trump administration has announced that it will impose travel bans on officials it claims are responsible for discrimination against whites and other minority groups in South Africa.
