Republicans Wrestle With Trump’s Demands for Tax Cuts

House Republicans are planning to include several of President Trump’s campaign promises in the first draft of the bill, which they hope to release soon.

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Trump proposes a trillion-dollar defense budget.

The new sum was a 13 percent increase from the 2025 fiscal year, the White House said.

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Trump’s Budget Calls for Deep Cuts to NIH and CDC

A budget blueprint released on Friday advances, in hard numbers and biting words, President Trump’s assault on the nation’s universities and scientific research enterprise.

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Trump’s 2026 Budget Proposes Cutting NASA Funding by $6 Billion

That budgetary change aligns with the priorities of Elon Musk, who founded his SpaceX rocket company two decades ago with dreams of one day sending colonists to Mars.

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Illinois Man Sentenced to 53 Years in Prison in Killing of Palestinian American Boy

A jury in suburban Chicago convicted the man of murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 killing of Wadee Alfayoumi, 6. He was the boy’s landlord.

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Funds for Low-Income Students Are on the Chopping Block in Trump’s Budget

The proposal seeks a cut of nearly 25 percent from the Title I budget for high-poverty schools at a time when the rate of children living in poverty in America is on the rise.

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Trump Gets a Slow Start on Judges After Setting a Record Pace in First Term

The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.

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Two Scientific Groups Say They’ll Keep Working on U.S. Climate Assessment

The organizations said they planned to publish the assessment even after the Trump administration’s decision to dismiss all authors on the project.

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Prince Harry Says He Would ‘Love Reconciliation’ With Royal Family

In a BBC interview, Harry said he didn’t know how long King Charles, who has cancer, had left to live, and he expressed a desire to make peace with his family.

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Trump Labels Haiti’s Powerful Gangs as Terrorists

The move will enable harsh sanctions on the gangs, which control important sectors of the country’s economy, and anybody that does business with them.

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