WASHINGTON — A legislative proposal to cut in half a Pentagon-funded medical research account, subtracting hundreds of millions of dollars in this fiscal year alone, would jeopardize the fight against deadly diseases, experts said this week.

The six-month continuing resolution for fiscal 2025, which the House has passed and the Senate is ...Read more

MIAMI — Damir Ortiz, a 10-year-old with leukemia and a rare genetic disease that has caused a tumor in his left eye, was medevaced Wednesday from Cuba to the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, after overcoming bureaucratic obstacles and the reluctance of the Cuban government.

Last month, 79-year-old Martha Beatriz Roque, a prominent ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Thursday that he’ll vote to advance a House-passed stopgap funding measure needed by Friday night to avert a partial government shutdown, likely providing cover for other Democrats still on the fence.

The comments from Schumer represent an about-face one day after he declared ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to slap 200% tariffs on wine and other alcoholic beverages imported from European Union countries as he escalates his trade war aimed at geopolitical friends and foes alike.

Trump said he would up the ante after the E.U. imposed its own 50% tax on American whiskey, a move that itself was a response to the ...Read more

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Republican lawmakers advanced two bills Wednesday adding limited medical exceptions to Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban after three years of refusing calls from doctors to do just that.

A House committee approved House Bill 414 on a 12-4 vote — the first time the GOP supermajority has allowed such a bill to be heard ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders plan to roll out their recommended cuts to military spending alongside their budget request for fiscal 2026, the Defense Department indicated in a newly released letter to Congress.

The letter, addressed to House Armed Services Chair Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., and dated March 5, states that Congress will be informed...Read more

Refugees haven’t been welcome in the United States since the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term, when he signed an executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 90 days. Despite a February 2025 federal court order to resume refugee resettlement, the administration has said that won’t be happening any ...Read more

As if President Donald Trump isn’t busy enough taking a woodchipper to the federal bureaucracy, threatening to wage economic war in North America, putting the screws on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to pressure him into peace talks with Russia and giving impromptu interviews in the Oval Office every other day, he has added another ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, public health experts say that, despite some gains, the United States is not fully prepared for another public health disaster.

At least two people have died in a measles outbreak that has infected at least 222 people in 12 states.

Avian influenza has ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the government will deport lawful permanent residents who support Hamas and came to the U.S. as students with an intent “to rile up all kinds of anti-Jewish student, antisemitic activities,” referencing the Palestinian rights protests at universities in 2024.

“And if you end up having...Read more

LEESBURG, Va. – House Democrats gathered Wednesday roughly an hour outside of Washington for a three-day policy conference as they plot out their next two years in the minority.

The retreat here at the Lansdowne Resort comes a day after House Democrats were nearly unanimous in their opposition to Republicans’ stopgap spending bill, which ...Read more

WASHINGTON — ​Senate Democrats are digging in for a fight on a House-passed stopgap funding measure that is needed by Friday night to avoid a partial government shutdown.

After a closed-door caucus lunch, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., announced that Democrats would fight for a one-month continuing resolution that would allow ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers proposed Wednesday a new bill that could narrow down the number of lawsuits against doctors under Idaho’s abortion laws.

The proposal follows reports in the past few years that the state’s law criminalizing the procedure for medical providers has prompted doctors to flee the state and exacerbated a physician...Read more

A Nevada man who supports President Donald Trump was accused of trying to assassinate Trump after deputies arrested him near a rally in October, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the man.

As a “deeply involved” Trump supporter since 2016, Vem Miller got tickets to attend a rally for the then-presidential candidate in the Coachella ...Read more

The bipartisan NATO Edge Act, which would reaffirm the United States’ “ironclad commitment” to NATO and prevent any administration “from unilaterally withdrawing from the alliance,” has been authored and introduced by Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif.

The United States has long stood for freedom, democracy and the defense of our allies ...Read more