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Three members of Congress just introduced a bill aimed at one of the quietest bottlenecks in American health care: the cost of training nurses. The Educating Future Nurses Act, from Reps. Lauren Underwood, Jen Kiggans (VA-02) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), would create permanent federal funding for hospitals to partner with …

Republicans control virtually every lever of federal power. They hold the White House, both chambers of Congress and a Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority that includes three Trump appointees. Republicans also control some of the country’s most consequential battleground states. Yet when voters complain about grocery bills, a …

Goods prices were on track to fall. Then the tariffs hit, and the New York Fed just put a number on what it cost you. A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has done the math on one of the biggest questions in the economy: how …

President Donald Trump wants a second Camp David, and he wants it on his own property. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Trump is pushing to turn part of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach into a permanent, official presidential retreat — a “U.S. Presidential Golf Course” that …

President Donald Trump has approved the execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, the military psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, setting the stage for the first U.S. military execution since 1961. Hasan is scheduled to be executed …

The only scheduled debate of Georgia’s governor’s race quickly became a fight over more than taxes, data centers and public safety. Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson spent much of Tuesday night’s town hall drawing competing pictures of what the state’s next governor should be — with President …

Sharing the stage for the first time Tuesday night, incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic nominee Troy Jackson directly blamed each other for Mainers’ struggles and called each other corrupt.   Tuesday night’s debate, hosted by CBS News 13/ WGME, is the first of four debates over the next …

Nearly a year after a Customs and Border Protection agent shot Marimar Martinez during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, the U.S. citizen is suing the federal government — alleging the agent’s account of the shooting was false and that he fired at her vehicle even after moving behind …

The Trump administration has a pronatalist streak a mile wide: baby bonuses, medals for mothers of six, and now a two-front push that would reroute child care subsidies to married stay-at-home parents and steer highway and transit money toward communities with high marriage and birth rates. Supporters call it pro-family. …

President Donald Trump spent years warning Republicans that voting by mail was vulnerable to fraud and calling the practice “inherently corrupt.” Now, with Republicans facing a difficult political environment ahead of the November midterm elections, Trump is telling his supporters to use it. In a video posted over the weekend, …

Dennis Hastert rose from an Illinois high school wrestling coach to become the longest-serving Republican speaker of the U.S. House, wielding enormous power in Washington and helping advance President George W. Bush’s agenda. He ultimately became the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence. Hastert died at 84 …

The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday with a docket that could reshape the law on immigration, gun rights, religious freedom and climate liability, while setting the stage for additional fights over President Donald Trump’s agenda and the November midterm elections. The justices will consider challenges to state bans …

Late Friday night, just before 11 p.m., President Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a promise for America’s seniors: “My Administration will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums.” The actual amount: $90. One …

Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are introducing legislation to sharply restrict the use of Flock Safety’s AI-powered license-plate-reader cameras, adding new momentum to a bipartisan congressional backlash over the growing surveillance network. The Ban Flock Act would prohibit federal agencies from using automatic license plate …

U.S. employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, far below expectations, as hiring slowed sharply and unemployment edged higher in a report that underscores growing caution among businesses. Economists surveyed by FactSet had expected the economy to add about 90,000 jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 4.2% from 4.1% in …