Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has accepted a revised Republican proposal to shift some costs for food assistance to states after rejecting the initial draft of it over the weekend, Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman (R-Ark.) said. The Senate Republican plan would require states for the first time to pay a sizeable share of food...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Parliamentarian axes oil, land sales provisions The Senate parliamentarian has removed Republican attempts to sell off public lands and exempt oil and gas drilling from environmental reviews in the GOP's "big, beautiful bill." ©© iStock To get their major policy bill across the finish...

Presented by Jewish Federations of North America — President Trump arrived at the NATO summit with the Israel-Iran ceasefire holding, for now. {beacon} PRESIDENT TRUMP arrived in the Netherlands to meet with world leaders at the NATO summit Tuesday, with a fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran holding, for now. Early Tuesday, it...

Tuesday is the last day voters can cast their ballots in the increasingly dramatic Democratic primary contest for New York City mayor. The race has emerged as a nail-biter between former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and state Assembly member Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist. New York City uses a ranked-choice voting system, which...

White House budget chief Russell Vought will testify before senators Wednesday as they consider a special request by the Trump administration to lock in upwards of $9 billion in cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting funds.  Vought will appear before the Senate Appropriations Committee as lawmakers face a ticking clock to act on the...

The eight victims who died after a 27-foot boat capsized on Lake Tahoe over the weekend have been identified, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office.

An early intelligence assessment reportedly found that Tehran’s nuclear program was set back by only months after U.S. military strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities this past weekend, findings that the Trump administration is pushing back against. A preliminary classified U.S. report found that the bombing did not destroy the main components of Iran’s nuclear program...

House conservatives are warning that President Trump's budget bill may not pass after the Senate made key changes.

The Trump administration is targeting three major children's hospitals in FBI investigations looking into whether their transgender medical treatments violate federal law.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has very deep ties to activism against one of America’s closest allies, a report by an antisemitic watchdog group found.