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Republican efforts to reduce national gas prices in the weeks before Election Day were derailed in the Senate by infighting among GOP lawmakers and members of the administration who could not agree on how to ease consumers’ pain at the pump

Yes, the likely 2028 Democratic presidential candidates who’ve talked to Barack Obama keep saying when he asks them about AI, they’re paying attention and working up plans

Yet during his White House summit with President Trump, he sometimes smiled and even laughed, projecting a warmth unusual for a meeting between superpower rivals

Trump met his Chinese counterpart on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, outside Washington on Wednesday rather than wait back at the White House for an official greeting

The left's push to rein in AI is taking shape on two fronts: slowing advanced development at home, and weakening China's progress abroad

But notably, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention departed from its usual approach to publishing the survey’s results and instead highlighted topics aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement

Trump Tests Out ‘Super Intelligence’ as AI Rebrand

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered his final address before the UNGA on Tuesday

While this response alarmed many in democratic Taiwan, many people around the globe hope that Xi can prove similarly persuasive on another issue of grave importance when he travels to the White House on Sept 24: artificial intelligence

If some obvious employment categories can be identified as ripe for replacement by AI, patterns should emerge about which sorts of jobs are in immediate peril

Reminds of a story that sounds less like cybersecurity news and more like a nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough after three cups of strong coffee, a team of independent security researchers reportedly used Anthropic's Claude AI to help identify and exploit vulnerabilities within OpenAI's internal code environment

This year's Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, which wraps Sunday, has taken on a different feel than its usual college homecoming vibe

Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, was nominated to be the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Thursday again pressed for the U.S. to return to talks with Canada amid the escalating trade war between two countries

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt

The update comes nearly two months after McConnell disappeared from public life following a June 14 hospitalization that later led to a stay at an inpatient rehabilitation facility

The disclosure comes amid intensifying Republican investigations into Fauci's handling of the pandemic

The United States Senate has passed an aggressive sanctions package targeting Russia’s energy revenues amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a referral pushed by its Republican Chair Rand Paul of Kentucky, a longtime Fauci antagonist

Mr. Kennedy’s mini book tour came as Republicans accused Dr. Fauci of enriching himself by enlisting staff and colleagues to enter contests with cash awards, including a $1 million prize that government ethics officials allowed him to keep

ER doctor: 'No doubt in my mind’ Dr. Fauci acted to save lives

After Dr. Anthony S. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself at the start of a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Republicans spent the next three hours battering him with questions and allegations as he sat in silence

Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio took a couple of shots at Dr. Anthony Fauci over his repeated use of the Fifth Amendment during a Senate hearing on Wednesday

Political commentator Bill O’Reilly blasted former chief White House medical adviser Antony Fauci following his hostile Senate hearing on Wednesday, where he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times as Republicans aired their criticisms over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr. Anthony Fauci's refusal to answer more than 100 questions during Wednesday's fiery Senate hearing has sparked a legal showdown over whether a witness granted a sweeping presidential pardon can still invoke the Fifth Amendment

Republican Senator Bernie Moreno has defended using an expletive while speaking with Dr. Anthony Fauci during a contentious Senate hearing on Wednesday

While eulogized in Washington as an indefatigable dealmaker, mourners in Columbia recalled a man deeply connected to his humble origins

While chronicling his management of the spiraling health emergency, Fauci also wrote frequently of his rapidly rising fame in his private 2020 journals, which were released by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky, earlier this week

On Wednesday, the retired scientist will notch one more testimony, in what is expected to be a combative hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee

Those private reflections became public this past weekend when Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, released more than 1,100 pages of Dr. Fauci’s diary as part of his investigation into whether the virus might have leaked from a laboratory and whether, as Mr. Paul claims, Dr. Fauci lied to Congress about it

Trump Is Losing Patience Over an Iran War With No Clear End in Sight

U.S. House again passes resolution seeking to halt military action in Iran as some Republicans defect

Gas prices hit four-month high as Iran war stokes supply fears

Former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's team reviewed text messages from ​44 Republican and Democratic members of Congress during his investigation

This comes after Trump had signed an executive order on the first day of his presidency decreeing those born to parents in the US illegally or on temporary visas could not automatically become Americans

US President Donald ​Trump faced pointed criticism over the Iran war on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans, with Trump reportedly engaging in a shouting match with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy

The House on Tuesday passed a sweeping housing package with overwhelming bipartisan support, sending the legislation to the president’s desk and delivering a major victory for congressional leaders in both parties

Divisions emerged among lawmakers over escalating conflict with Iran

Housing bill leaps toward Senate passage

The still-secret terms of President Trump's Iran deal have triggered a furious debate over how much Tehran stands to gain financially — and how soon

President Donald Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran remains unpublished days after he announced it, fueling bipartisan criticism and confusion

Iran will unlock $300bn reconstruction fund if it gives up uranium stockpile

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) call for Republicans to act on Social Security reform if they keep control of Congress in 2027 is getting pushback from Senate Republicans who warn it’s a bad political message heading into November

But his latest round of scandals has some Washington Democrats fantasizing about some highly unlikely scenarios that would let them avoid being stuck with him as their nominee in their top-target Senate race

While Platner remains the presumptive nominee to challenge longtime incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in November, the controversy has triggered declines in his prediction market standing and reshaped the landscape for national Democrats regarding his general election viability

Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) took another swipe at the Justice Department’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” an initiative that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized in recent days