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Senate kicks off fraught appropriations process against shutdown deadline
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate on Wednesday took a step toward approving its first appropriation bill, agreeing to advance ...
13h ago

Trump administration's new artificial intelligence plan focuses on deregulation, beating China
Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The White House on Wednesday released its promised "AI Action Plan," a sweeping set of ...
13h ago

House Oversight Committee issues subpoena for Ghislaine Maxwell
Sylvain Gaboury/Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Wednesday issued a s...
13h ago

Florida judge rules Epstein grand jury records will remain sealed
(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge in Florida denied one of three Justice Department requests to unseal grand jury records tied to federal investigations i...
16h ago

School districts face uncertainty following budget cuts, but some welcome reevaluation of funds
J. David Ake/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As a new school year approaches, multiple school systems around the country told ABC News that a Department of ...
17h ago

Murkowski worries Trump administration's $6B funding freeze could result in 'closing schools'
Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Breakthrough T1D(WASHINGTON) -- Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she's worried the Trump administration's fe...
21h ago

Miami can't postpone its elections to next year, judge rules
Joe Raedle/Getty Images, FILEMiami elections could proceed this year as originally planned, after a judge ruled that city officials could not push ele...
Jul 22, 2025

What Trump and the White House are planning for the midterms
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump and the White House are already working behind the scenes on next year's midte...
Jul 22, 2025

Judge overseeing DOJ Epstein grand jury records request asks for more information
Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The federal judge now overseeing the Justice Department's request to unseal grand jury r...
Jul 22, 2025

MLK's daughter implores the White House to release Epstein files
Hulton Archive/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. said the White House should make public the files on financier-turned-...
Jul 22, 2025