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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

United States President Donald Trump has increased the pressure on US Senate Republicans to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, singling out one of the body’s members for stalling legislation to end the twice-a-year changing of clocks

Quantico announcement marks sweeping reduction in senior military leadership

He also wants one built around autonomous weapons, superintelligence, robotics and technologies that barely exist yet

All three men wear suits and ties

First lady joins large number of Republican lawmakers in ducking out of her husband’s two-day Texas summit next week

Melania Trump and Cornyn join a list of dozens of Republican lawmakers and candidates in competitive congressional races who are also expected to stay away, with some choosing to campaign in their districts and others reportedly objecting to attendance costs

Voters in beef-industry-heavy states, like South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, supported Trump in his bid for a second term

Narrowly confirmed by the Senate amid allegations of financial mismanagement in prior jobs and heavy drinking, which Mr Hegseth denied, the former Fox News weekend host and voluble culture warrior appeared badly underqualified and no match for the generals and admirals he would direct

Voters in beef-industry-heavy states, like South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, supported Trump in his bid for a second term

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump

Donald Trump is facing growing criticism from within his own party over his decision to temporarily pause US tariffs on foreign beef in a bid to bring down grocery prices

Without Democratic support in the Senate, the effort could fail this fall

Without Democratic support in the Senate, the effort could fail this fall

Max Miller Will Pour $1 Million Into His Reelection Bid Despite Growing Calls To Drop Out

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

Beaudion is the latest Democrat in a solidly Republican state to drop out of a race that also featured an independent contender

This push for expanded Starlink capabilities emerges as Kyiv seeks alternative strategies to reduce its reliance on US Patriot air defence systems, crucial for countering Russia's relentless missile and drone assaults

The United States has opened a formal route for Ukrainian combat drones to enter Pentagon testing, offering Washington a chance to learn how Kyiv builds and replaces weapons at the speed modern wars consume them

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth requests fresh funding for Iran War in remarks to senators

A bill to make daylight saving time permanent across most of the United States is facing stiff resistance in the Senate, despite backing from President Donald Trump and overwhelming approval in the House

Trump is set to make a speech to the nation at 7pm MT/8pm CT (9pm ET) on Thursday, July 16 which he announced on his Truth Social account

US President Donald Trump is giving a primetime speech on Thursday night focusing on foreign efforts to influence US elections

But despite President Donald Trump's backing and a 308-117 House vote, the push for permanent daylight saving time is running into resistance where it matters most: the Senate

The complaints have mounted since the Fed’s regulatory policy chief participated in a small private dinner last month with Bank of America’s clients just hours after voting on interest rates

Republicans returned to Washington on Monday night in an increasingly dour mood about the state of their party: Growing fears of a November wipeout

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) early Monday called on Senate Republicans to work with Democrats to address what he called President Trump’s “lopsided” spending priorities and pass bipartisan spending bills to avoid a government shutdown

Israel's foreign minister called it textbook incitement to genocide

Israel and Greece have hardened their opposition to a potential U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to Türkiye after U.S. President Donald Trump signaled that he was considering reinstating Ankara into the program

Overnight, the US had launched strikes on more than 80 Iranian targets around the strait of Hormuz and revoked a temporary sanctions waiver for Tehran to export oil after Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels on Tuesday

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was there on the tarmac to greet him — the Turkish autocrat did this for none of the other more than 30 world leaders who arrived in Ankara for a NATO summit — accompanied by dozens of Turks on horseback

As South Dakota governor in 2020, Noem gave Trump a 4-foot-high model of Mount Rushmore that included his image

White House seeks $88bn from Congress as Donald Trump clashes with Republicans

President Donald Trump will attend a Senate GOP lunch this afternoon

Ratcliffe clashed frequently with outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and her office now appears destined for major cuts

The divide reflects irreconcilable views of political power: Trump’s ends-justify-the-means approach is colliding with the protect-the-norms posture of Republicans on the Hill and in statehouses

Before bringing it up, Republicans followed through on a decision they made late last month to jettison $1 billion in security funds for Mr. Trump’s ballroom and other White House renovations, which had drawn a mini-revolt within his party

The muted treatment of North Korea stood in noticeable contrast to previous U.S.-China summits, where denuclearization and regional security were often framed as shared priorities

President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One Friday afternoon and departed Beijing after two days of high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, wrapping up the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade with warm public rhetoric but few concrete agreements to ease tensions between the world's two largest economies

Taiwan has issued its first response after Donald Trump avoided answering questions on Taiwan during his high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing

US President Donald Trump returns to Beijing after nine years to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping

But senior Republicans inside the administration and on Capitol Hill have gone quiet, bowing to Trump’s vision for closer cooperation between once fierce rivals

Trade has emerged as a central focus of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, following a Supreme Court setback over Trump’s tariff agenda earlier this year

Secret Service Director Sean Curran will be questioned by Senate Republicans during their lunch today

Both chambers approved a 45-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) before leaving Washington on Thursday, allowing lawmakers more time to negotiate reforms to the hotly contested program

Johnson tries again on FISA vote

An F/A-18E Super Hornet participating in U.S. military operations against Iran prepares to land on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier

Another GOP senator proposed a different path with less support

But one red line looms on the horizon for most GOP lawmakers — one that would put dozens of them in a difficult position between supporting their party leader and keeping in line with Congress' constitutional authorities

But today, two of her daughter’s schoolmates also climbed into the backseat

Credit card debt has become nearly as ubiquitous, with total household balances reaching a record $1.23 trillion in the latest New York Federal Reserve report, as delinquencies and defaults continue to rise