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Emil Bove, President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the 3rd Circuit, testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing on June 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Democrats walk out on US Senate Judiciary vote on Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove

Jul 17, 2025
The National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
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US Senate Republicans vote to claw back funding for NPR, PBS, foreign aid programs

Jul 17, 2025
Asylum seeker taken by ICE outside Portland immigration court to be immediately released
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Advocates for immigrants sue to stop courthouse ICE arrests

Jul 16, 2025
Republicans in the U.S. Senate are calling on the Trump administration to release billions in frozen school funding. (Photo by Getty Images)
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GOP members of US Senate protest Trump freeze of $6.8B in school funding

Jul 16, 2025
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy greets members of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee before the panel’s hearing on the White House fiscal 2026 budget request for the Transportation Department on July 16, 2025. (Photo by Jacob Fischler/States Newsroom
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Thousands of delayed federal transportation grants will get paid out, secretary pledges

Jul 16, 2025
National Public Radio headquarters on North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jacob Fischler/States Newsroom)
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Native American radio stations part of funding deal as US Senate takes up cuts to NPR, PBS

Jul 16, 2025
White House budget director Russ Vought speaks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol building on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
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US Senate Republicans advance bill stripping funds from NPR, PBS, foreign aid

Jul 15, 2025
Keri Rodrigues, president of the National Parents Union, speaks at a rally on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C, protesting the U.S. Education Department’s mass layoffs and President Donald Trump’s plans to dismantle the agency. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
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Education Department in the middle of a growing tug-of-war between Trump, Democrats

Jul 15, 2025
In an aerial view from a helicopter, the migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" by Florida Republicans is seen at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on July 4, 2025 in Ochopee, Florida. (Photo by Alon Skuy/Getty Images
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More 'Alligator Alcatraz' centers to be built by states flush with cash, experts predict

Jul 15, 2025
SCOTUS tie ends Oklahoma plan to open nation’s first publicly funded Catholic charter school
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US Supreme Court allows Trump to carry out plan to dismantle Education Department for now

Jul 14, 2025
A worker walks beneath a United Airlines Boeing 737-900ER after it arrived at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on June 5, 2019. The flight from Chicago to Los Angeles used aviation biofuel, a critical component of airlines’ goal of reaching a net-zero carbon goal by 2050. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Congress, state lawmakers move to juice aviation biofuel production

Jul 11, 2025
A protester holds a photo of Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia as demonstrators gather to protest against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations on April 24, 2025 in New York City. Many of the deportees now detained at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) were sent there without court hearings under the Alien Enemies Act after a deal was brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele. A f
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Judge likely to keep Abrego Garcia detained to prevent quick deportation

Jul 11, 2025
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch)
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Judge’s order blocking Planned Parenthood funding ban unlawful, Trump DOJ says

Jul 11, 2025
A new national school voucher program allocates up to $1,700 in federal tax credits for individuals who donate to organizations that provide private and religious school scholarships. (Photo by Getty Images)
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New national school voucher program included in ‘big, beautiful’ law, with no cap on cost

Jul 11, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador prison, to face federal charges in Nashville
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ICE official’s court testimony provides few answers on agency’s plan for Abrego Garcia

Jul 10, 2025
A summer day on the Golden Trout Lake on the Salmon-Challis National Forest, in east-central Idaho. (USDA Forest Service photo)
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US Senate Dems from Western states blast Trump budget for cutting federal aid

Jul 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump was joined by, left to right, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, former Executive Chairman of Fox Corporation Rupert Murdoch and Oracle CTO Larry Ellison. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Trump emergency tariffs violate Constitution, Democrats argue in court case

Jul 10, 2025
The National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
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US Senate GOP under pressure on Trump demand to defund NPR, PBS, foreign aid

Jul 10, 2025
The FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 23, 2023. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
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Spending bill stalls in US Senate amid fight over Maryland as FBI HQ destination

Jul 10, 2025
Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, joined demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, May 15, 2025, to protest the Trump administration's effort to strip birthright citizenship from the Constitution. (Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
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Federal judge to pause Trump’s birthright citizenship order

Jul 10, 2025
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