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The NBA trade deadline is tomorrow (Friday, 4 a.m., Manila time) and there’s still no word on whether or not Miami’s ...

By a 14-13 vote along party lines, the Senate Finance Committee voted to move Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS nomination to the ...

With Canada, Mexico, China, Colombia and the Middle East, President Trump has wasted no time threatening to use American ...

For someone who insisted he had never heard of Project 2025, Donald Trump is doing a spot-on job of bringing the right-wing ...

Immigration legislation intended to grant new power to states to block visas for foreign nationals is likely unconstitutional ...

Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) voted no on advancing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as the Secretary of Health and ...

But when it comes to Washington, it’s Twitter that has become real life—inspiring Musk in his quest to reshape the federal ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has agreed to imprison convicted criminals from any country that have been ordered ...

For consistently ignoring its summons to appear before it, the Senate has threatened Chief Executive Officers of certain federal government ...

Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in ...

Trump has long distanced himself from the controversial policy blueprint Project 2025, but is still taking steps that reflect ...