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House lawmakers will interview Biden chief of staff about ex-president’s cognitive decline

Ron Klain, who served as former President Biden's chief of staff, will appear before a House panel investigating Mr. Biden's fading mental acuity while in the White House and any efforts by aides to cover it up and act on his behalf.

Mayors, doctor groups sue over Trump’s efforts to restrict Obamacare enrollment

New Trump administration rules that give millions of people a shorter timeframe to sign up for the Affordable Care Act's health care coverage are facing a legal challenge from Democratic mayors around the country.

Trump toured Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades. Here’s what to know

The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited on Tuesday was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

Kentucky Senate hopeful says Mitch McConnell doesn’t deserve lifetime achievement award

Republican businessman Nate Morris has declared that Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn't deserve a lifetime achievement award from their home state political party, as the first-time candidate ratchets up his attacks against the former Senate leader he hopes to succeed in next year's election.

U.S. says ‘little to show’ for six-decade aid agency. Supporters point to millions of lives saved

Some staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development raced against the moment their computer access would be shut off, before the Trump administration's dismantling of the six-decade-old foreign assistance agency took near-final effect Tuesday.

Judge blocks DHS decision to revoke deportation amnesty for Haitians

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Homeland Security from terminating a long-standing deportation amnesty for Haitian migrants, ruling that Secretary Kristi Noem acted in defiance of the law.

Labor Department awards grants to expand Trump goal of one million apprenticeships

The Department of Labor awarded nearly $84 million to 50 states and territories in grants to expand apprenticeship programs, a move that will facilitate President Trump's goal of supporting more than 1 million apprenticeships per year.

Democrat calls Murkowski ‘cheap date’ over whaling tax carve-out

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) quipped that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was a "cheap date" for voting for President Trump’s giant tax and spending package, seemingly for a tax break for fishermen, during a House Rules Committee hearing on Tuesday. The comment came after Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) asked House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) about a new tax...

150 Guard troops pulled off LA mission for wildfire fighting duties

Some of the California National Guard troops deployed by President Trump to Los Angeles last month will be released from the deployment to fight wildfires as the state prepares for another fire season. In a statement released Tuesday, U.S. Northern Command (Northcom) said that approximately 150 Guardsmen were released from their federal mission protecting Immigration...

Trump says Israel agreed to terms for 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, warns Hamas to take deal

President Trump said on Tuesday evening that Israel has agreed to the “necessary conditions” to “finalize” a 60-day ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip and pushed the Palestinian militant group Hamas to take the deal, warning that it will “not get better.” “My Representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on...

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