Washington, Silicon Valley brace for AI job losses
Washington and Silicon Valley are bracing for the fallout from AI’s potential displacement of workers, floating everything from transition assistance to universal basic income as Americans express growing discontent with the technology. AI leaders have long warned the technology could disrupt the...
Pulte pick to lead DNI further jeopardizes path to renewing warrantless spy powers
President Trump’s bid to install a controversial ally to head the intelligence community without the blessing of Congress is giving lawmakers pause about renewing the nation’s warrantless spy powers.  Trump on Tuesday announced he had tapped Bill Pulte, the current head of the Federal Housin...
Republicans rocked by Trump’s midterm approach
Republicans hoping to keep control of Congress in a tough election year have been thrown off-balance by President Trump’s focus on foreign policy, pet projects, and statements dismissing the importance of the midterms and cost-of-living issues. To be sure, Trump’s team is putting its shoulder int...
FEMA staff losses leave questions about hurricane season
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staffing losses after a tumultuous year at the agency are raising questions about whether it will be able to effectively respond to this hurricane season. While the Trump administration has backed off its most controversial ideas — such as outright elimi...
Republicans see trouble with independents for Trump
Republican senators are growing increasingly concerned about President Trump’s weak polling numbers with independent voters and warn that the GOP may be headed for a political wipeout in the November election because Trump’s popularity with Republican primary voters isn’t translating across the b...
Rubio, Vance, Bessent, Oz: White House’s ‘guest’ briefers step into different spotlight
There’s a new, favorite Beltway game: evaluating the performance of the big figures in the Trump administration who have stepped to the lectern to conduct White House briefings. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz, who on Tuesday became the latest person to fi...
National Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study finds
A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks.
In photos: a preview of the Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center opens later this month in Chicago. We take a look inside.
Leon Panetta on Trump's controversial pick for acting national intelligence director
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta about President Trump's controversial appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.
Divisions between GOP and Trump surface over 'anti-weaponization fund' and Iran war
Some Republicans' frustration with President Trump has been on display in Congress this week, first with Trump's "anti-weaponization fund" and then the war with Iran.
Rep. Katherine Clark on the House passing war powers resolution to end Iran war
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts about House approval of a war powers resolution directing President Trump to pull U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran.
Trump signs executive order that makes it easier to fire federal employees
President Trump signed an executive order reclassifying 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into at-will employees who can be fired without due process.
Democrats question reported White House intervention in loan for Donald Trump Jr.
Several Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers following a report that a White House official intervened to grant a $620 million Pentagon loan to a company linked to President Trump’s eldest son.  “We write to demand a full explanation for what appears to be an egregious example of Trump...
Army identifies soldier killed in training accident in Iraq
The Army has identified the American soldier who died Sunday, along with a British Army soldier, during a military training accident in Iraq. Sgt. Devin A. Seibel, 26, of Robinson, Texas, died on May 31 at Erbil Airbase in what the Pentagon called a “training-related incident,” according to a sta...
Jill Biden hits back at Democratic critic of her book: ‘Say it to my face’
Jill Biden is responding to criticism from at least one Democrat who worked in her husband’s administration, saying that her new memoir could be unnecessarily igniting a “painful conversation” for the party and urging any detractor to call her and “say it to my face.”...
Remote work may be locking younger workers out of labor force: NY Fed
Rising youth unemployment rates since the 2020 pandemic may be tied to a trend in remote work, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said in an analysis published on Monday.  In the report, the regional Fed bank cited census data showing a 20 percent increase in the jobless rate among college gr...
NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter goes silent
NASA on Wednesday announced that its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission has ended, almost half a year after scientists last heard from the spacecraft. All systems were working normally before MAVEN’s passage behind Mars in December, the space agency said in a sta...
Bari Weiss: Scott Pelley fired from ’60 Minutes’ for breaking ‘foundation’ of trust
The head of CBS News told staff on Wednesday that the network’s decision to fire a longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent involved a breach of trust, according to an audio transcript of an editorial call reported by The New York Times.  “I’m only interested in working in a newsroom that is buil...
Altman distances himself from campaign lobbying efforts in Capitol Hill visit
OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman tried to distance himself from the artificial intelligence industry’s massive lobbying efforts this cycle as scrutiny mounts over the millions of dollars the sector is throwing into the midterms. Shortly after meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on We...
Prolonged energy disruption from Iran war would be severe blow to global economy: Research
A new economic outlook released Wednesday indicates that a prolonged disruption of energy supplies resulting from the war in Iran would deliver a severe blow to the global economy, likely causing countries to slip into recession and leading to increased unemployment. The Organization for Economic...
Why Social Security checks could be $500 less each month by 2032
Residents of some states are projected to see greater Social Security check cuts than others, the report says.
Trump formalizes move of career federal workers into ‘at will’ roles
President Trump formally moved to implement his plan for making it easier to fire federal workers in policy roles, signing an executive order moving them into a new class that critics say will be akin to political employees. Schedule Policy/Career (P/C), an effort pushed under the first Trump adm...
Trump attacks CNN’s Collins: ‘Hatred in her eyes’
President Trump on Wednesday attacked CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, accusing her of having “hatred in her eyes,” while he took questions from reporters in the Oval Office. The president was answering a question about the recently defunct “anti-weaponization” fund, which he ...
Trump congratulates Hilton on yet-to-be called California governor’s race
President Trump on Wednesday congratulated Republican Steve Hilton for “coming in first” in the California gubernatorial primary, but Decision Desk HQ has not called the race yet. “Congratulations to Steve Hilton on coming in first, last night, in the California Vote for Governor,” Trump wrote on...
Senate Republicans start debate on ICE funding package
The Senate voted along party lines to start debate on a Republican bill to fund immigration enforcement through the end of President Trump's term.
Trump on whether anti-weaponization fund is dead: ‘I’d have to ask the lawyers’
President Trump sidestepped a question Wednesday about whether his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is a dead idea or just on hold after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said there were no plans to move forward with it. “It’s a… I’d have to ask the lawyers,” Trump ...
House moves forward on new aid for Ukraine package, spurning Trump
Six Republicans joined Democrats on Wednesday to push through a vote on military aid for Ukraine, a blow to President Trump’s handling of Russia’s war against the country and his withdrawal of U.S. support for Kyiv.  The House voted 218-204 in a procedural motion that clears the way for a vo...
Same-sex marriage support dips by 3 points from 2025: Gallup
Americans’ support for same-sex marriage has dipped in the last year, according to a new poll. In the Gallup poll, 65 percent of respondents said same-sex marriages “should be valid” under the law, while 32 percent said same-sex marriages “should not be valid” under the law. Three percent had no ...
Cassidy yells for Trump to ‘get engaged’ on medical debt in Senate speech
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Wednesday yelled for President Trump to “get engaged” on lowering medical debt as prices soar in part due to the expiration of ObamaCare subsidies.  In his Wednesday speech on the Senate floor, Cassidy said 60 percent of personal bankruptcies have to do with...