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The Senate debates the clawing back of previously approved funding for foreign aid and public media — as Democratic lawmakers object. A final vote in the Senate is expected by Thursday. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The Senate is debating a package of spending cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting. Late last night, Vice President JD Vance had to break a tie to start the process. Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt says the bill shows that Republicans are doing what voters want.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)ERIC SCHMITT: Which is to find waste, to find fraud and find abuse, and also to realign the…

A tsunami advisory for Alaska’s southern peninsula has been canceled, after a major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 initially prompted a tsunami warning earlier Wednesday.  Videos posted to social media showed people in the town of Seward evacuating to higher ground after receiving a tsunami warning in the afternoon. The alert followed the earthquake that struck about 50 miles south of Sand Point, Alaska, at around 12:38 p.m. local time, according to the National Weather Service. Multiple aftershocks were reported near Sand Point, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.  A strong earthquake Wednesday off the Alaska coast triggered a tsunami warning.…

July 16, 2025 The danger of “maximum pressure” vs. the promise of “pragmatic engagement.” Ad Policy Cuban military personnel carry caricatures of US President Donald Trump as they pass in front of the Jose Marti monument during the May Day parade on May 1, 2019, in Havana, Cuba.(Sven Creutzmann / Getty Images) Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, expectations have been that his administration will use escalating sanctions to pursue regime change in Cuba—much as he did during his first term. With Marco Rubio, previously the hardest of hardliners in the US Senate, now serving as secretary of…

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday called on the Trump administration to release all records related to Jeffrey Epstein’s prosecution and alleged co-conspirators, saying “the time has come” for transparency while emphasizing that the names of victims should be protected.”I think the time has come for the administration to release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s investigation and prosecution,” Pence said in an interview with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett. “It’s important that we protect the names of the victims. They should be excluded from any disclosure.”His remarks come as President Trump has taken a sharply…

A major earthquake off Alaska with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 has triggered a tsunami warning for the state’s southern peninsula.The tsunami warning was in effect Wednesday afternoon after the earthquake struck about 50 miles south of Sand Point, Alaska, at around 12:38 p.m. local time, according to the National Weather Service. The impacted areas spanned the Kennedy Entrance, a channel that connects the Gulf of Alaska to Cook Inlet, to Unimak Pass, which is just to the west of Unimak Island at the end of the peninsula. There was no danger to Anchorage, the state’s most populous city, as…

President Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Trump says he hasn’t ruled out firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who he’s been frustrated with for months for not lowering the interest rate. The Fed has been cautious about interest rates as it assesses the impact of Trump’s tariffs on inflation. Consumer prices were up 2.7% from a year ago — a larger annual increase than the month before. But Trump…

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it deported a group of men convicted of violent crimes to the small African country of Eswatini, in its latest expansion of deportations to far-flung places that are not deportees’ home countries. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the deportees hailed from Cuba, Jamaica, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen, and had been convicted of serious crimes in the U.S. The men’s criminal records included convictions for murder, homicide and child rape, McLaughlin added.The deported men, McLaughlin said, are “so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.”In a statement, the government…

In ruling the president can decimate the Department of Education, the court took a key congressional power—and gave it to Trump. Ad Policy Donald Trump signs an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2025.(Andrew Thomas / Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images) The Supreme Court just gave Donald Trump a backdoor way to revoke federal spending authorized by Congress, in violation of the separation of powers written into the Constitution. This backdoor way also allows Trump to do one of his favorite things: fire people—specifically, employees of the Department of Education. In…

Washington — The Senate kicked off what’s expected to be another lengthy vote series Wednesday afternoon as Congress works to deliver on President Trump’s request to rescind $9 billion in spending by Friday. The Senate narrowly advanced the request late Tuesday. Three Republicans opposed the package and Vice President JD Vance had to cast the two tie-breaking votes to move it forward.The House approved the original $9.4 billion rescissions request last month, but it has faced pushback in the Senate, where some Republicans have opposed slashing foreign aid and public broadcasting funding. Both chambers need to approve the request before it expires…

Washington — President Trump said the ongoing controversy over his administration’s handling of information related to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is a “Hoax” and “bulls***,” criticizing members of his own party who are calling for more transparency as “weaklings.” In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday morning, the president compared the uproar over the Justice Department’s handling of the so-called Epstein files to past controversies, like the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s possible ties to Russia and Hunter Biden’s laptop. “[T]hese Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at – It’s all they have – They are no…