Republicans in the Senate are looking to push for a vote on a reconciliation bill plan next week, getting out ahead of the House Republicans and steering the process in a different direction.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S, would “take over" the Gaza Strip with the U.S. in “a "long-term ownership position."

U.S. Secret Service took someone into custody after the individual sought to scale the White House fence on Monday.

Elon Musk's DOGE is targeting Medicare and Medicaid for potential fraud as part of his campaign to trim down the federal government.

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg addressed a "phony weight loss ad" circulating on Instagram during the show on Wednesday and said she had nothing to do with the ad.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright laid out his departmental vision on Wednesday in remarks to staff at the department headquarters in Washington, DC.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta says he will support former Vice President Kamala Harris if she decides to run for Golden State governor in 2026.

Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce on Wednesday was asked about the possibility of President Donald Trump attending Super Bowl LIX.

Gisele Bündchen and her boyfriend Joaquim Valente have welcomed their first child together.

Michael Rapaport also said he's "sick and tired" of Travis Kelce's "mustache and haircuts."

President Trump sowed some anxiety when he floated the idea of a US takeover of the Gaza Strip, but his remarks are unlikely to move the needle when it comes to upcoming cease-fire talks in Qatar and Egypt, an Arab official has insisted.

He tore his right Achilles tendon in Week 2 of last season.

Ricardo Navarro Tolento, 29, was convicted by a Orange County Superior Court jury on Tuesday over his involvement in the 2020 death of 67-year-old Eugene Harbrecht.

The decision complicates a proposed sale of Jones' Infowars platform, and could spur divisions between families who sued Jones and won nearly $1.3 billion in Connecticut court cases and those who won $50 million in Texas courts.

A USAID worker said Monday that office employees scrambled to hide anything "incriminating" when the Department of Government Efficiency came knocking.

Wikipedia claims all right-leaning journalism is unreliable. What a bunch of liars!

Why so angry, wrestling fans?

“My son was playing with some kid and then he kicked him,” the "All Falls Down" rapper said on Tuesday's episode of "The Download."

The "Silver Lining" is that Jenny Lewis' indie group will also be headlining three huge fests.

There’s nothing fishy about this skincare secret — unless you count the ingredients. The pursuit of plastic-free perfection has led beauty buffs on a hunt for non-surgical alternatives — and the promise of one new cutting-edge approach is prompting some doctors to skirt federal regulations. New Yorker Cortny R., for instance, refuses to go under the...

New allergies frequently pop up and their severities can change too - meaning Chloe has to keep track of them with a color-coded spreadsheet.

The 34-year-old was arrested for DUI crash with property damage, possession of cocaine and resisting an officer without violence early Tuesday morning.

• England attack coach expects both teams to turn corner
• ‘We’re seeing green shoots – we play fast and score tries’

Steve Borthwick’s England squad have been compared to Ruben Amorim’s Manchester United side before this Saturday’s massive Six Nations fixture at home to France. Both teams have been having difficult seasons but inside the red rose camp there remains a firm belief that, given a little patience, the tide will eventually turn for them.

England’s attack coach, Richard Wigglesworth, also happens to be a United fan and sees similarities between the respective situations at Twickenham and Old Trafford. He thinks Amorim will eventually deliver success for United, currently 13th in the Premier League, and is also backing England, who have won just two of their past nine Tests, to turn the corner in the not-too-distant future.

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An obscene amount of bets are available for Super Bowl 2025, but it's those bizarre props that no one would think to wager on that get most of the attention.

“A lot of what was sending me into the episodes…The constant feeling of not being in control spun me out of control,” the rapper shared on the “Download” podcast.

“Isaac told me afterwards that I started having a seizure. I’d never had one before. I had no idea what was happening to me.”

"Who has more fun than us?"

The supermodel is also the mother of son Benjamin and daughter Vivian with ex-husband Tom Brady, whom she welcomed in 2009 and 2012, respectively.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will address members of the media at 1pm EST in the wake of two deadly aviation disasters last week and President Donald Trump’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday.

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Judge said no US court had endorsed Trump’s reading of the 14th amendment and her court ‘will not be the first’

• US politics live – latest updates

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second temporary pause on Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the US to someone in the country illegally.

US district judge Deborah Boardman said no court in the country had endorsed the Trump administration’s interpretation of the 14th amendment.

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Takeover of USAid agency by Doge operatives seen as a pilot for a large-scale overhaul of the federal government

USAid security personnel were defending a secure room holding sensitive and classified data in a standoff with “department of government efficiency” employees when a message was said to come directly from Elon Musk: give the Doge kids whatever they want.

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration last month, a posse of cocksure young engineers answering to Musk have stormed through Washington DC, gaining access to government computer systems as part of what Senator Chuck Schumer has called “an unelected shadow government … conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government”.

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Some civil servants determined to ‘stick it out’ as president and Elon Musk push for mass resignations: ‘We’re not even sure what is being offered is legal’

• What is USAid and why does Trump dislike it so much?
• US politics live – latest updates

Amy*, a federal US government employee working for homeland security who was hired by the Joe Biden administration’s refugee programme, has not left her phone out of her sight since last Tuesday, when the Elon Musk-led push for mass voluntary redundancies of government workers began.

Since the US office of personnel management (OPM) sent nearly all of the federal government’s 3 million employees an email offering them deferred resignations and warning that, if they choose to stay, they may be laid off or reassigned, US career civil servants have been weighing their options.

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New title holder becomes the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims

Rahim Al-Hussaini, 53, has been named the new Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims, after the death of his father, the Ismaeli community has announced.

The Aga Khan V, the 50th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, was designated in his father’s will “in accordance with historical Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim tradition and practice”, the community said on its website.

His father, his Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, known for his fabulous wealth and development work around the world, died on Tuesday in Lisbon, the seat of the Ismaili Imamat, at the age of 88.

The Aga Khan is considered by his followers to be a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad and is treated as a head of state and accorded nearly divine status by the Ismaeli community, whose website says it numbers 12 to 15 million people.

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The French government has faced ridicule for its new laundry edicts which include wearing a T-shirt five times before laundering it. But maybe it has a point?

Name: Laundry.

Age: As old as clothes.

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Community is billed as the cure-all for isolation, ageing and even climate change. Are we prepared to put the work in?

In the year since I moved into my flat, I’ve received a few notes under the door.

Some were warm welcomes – most notably, a Swiftie-style friendship bracelet from my downstairs neighbour, who’d heard me (“very faintly!”) listening to the new album. Others were Christmas cards, or courtesy notes warning of forthcoming maintenance or outages.

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© Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian

Italian radiologist, who says injured pet was ‘between life and death’, also operated on animal at Aosta facility

An Italian doctor has been placed under investigation after giving his cat a Cat scan at a hospital in Aosta before performing a life-saving operation on the feline.

Gianluca Fanelli took the animal, called Athena, to Umberto Parini hospital in the northern Italian region, where he is a manager of the radiology unit, after she fell from a roof.

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• Settlement creates $5 million fund for NWSL players
• Players went public with allegations of abuse in 2021

The NWSL has agreed to create a $5m fund to compensate players who experienced abuse and implement reforms to resolve investigations launched by attorneys general for New York, Illinois and Washington DC after players came forward with allegations of harassment and sexual misconduct.

Players from across the US top-flight National Women’s Soccer League went public in 2021 with allegations of misconduct by coaches and officials dating back over 10 years.

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Plane departed Texas and landed in Amritsar as Washington prepares to welcome Indian PM Narendra Modi

A US military plane carrying 104 deported people has landed in India as part of the Trump administration’s policy of deploying the armed forces to enforce its trumpeted mass deportation programme.

The migrants, the first to be flown to India by military aircraft, were sent on a C-17 aircraft from San Antonio in Texas to the northern Indian city of Amritsar.

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