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When Donald Trump won reelection, Jennifer Hadayia knew she’d need a good lawyer. As the executive director of Air Alliance Houston, an environmental nonprofit advocacy organization that works to reduce the risks of air pollution on public health, she had fought the first Trump administration in court already on a variety of issues.But when Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, began terminating environmental justice grants awarded by the Biden-era EPA in January and announced “the greatest day of deregulation” in mid-March to dismantle dozens of environmental policies, Hadaiya was gobsmacked: “We are in the very worst possible situation to…

Washington — The White House made a push for the centerpiece legislation of President Trump’s second term, hosting a “One, Big, Beautiful Event” on Thursday highlighting the bill amid intraparty disagreements and roadblocks in the Senate as lawmakers near a Fourth of July deadline. After the House narrowly approved the legislation that addresses the president’s tax, defense, border and energy priorities last month, Senate GOP leaders are working to pass the bill in the upper chamber. The bill would then be sent back to the House to approve the changes before it can reach Mr. Trump’s desk for his signature. But…

Pro-Trump supporters gather at the National Mall before the inauguration of the President Trump on January 20 in Washington, DC. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Vondruska/Getty Images Even if everyone who is eligible to vote in the country would have voted, President Trump still would have won the 2024 presidential election, a new study out Thursday from the Pew Research Center finds. Trump won in 2024 with just under 50% of the vote, 49.7%-48.2% over Democrat Kamala Harris. Roughly 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out in 2024, the second highest since 1904. 2020 was the highest.…

Washington — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the Trump administration doesn’t have any meetings scheduled with Iran, one day after President Trump said that the U.S. and Iran would talk and meet “next week.””We don’t have anything scheduled as of now,” Leavitt told reporters during Thursday’s press briefing, adding that she spoke with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff on Thursday morning and the administration continues to be in “close communication” with the Iranians and intermediaries such as the Qataris.”We are in touch, and if there is a meeting, we will let you know, as we always…

Mamdani won by uplifting and uniting some of New York City’s most forgotten voters. His coalition now has a chance to transform what’s possible for people everywhere. Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani with supporters in Brooklyn on May 4, 2025.(Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images) On a cold February day in 2017, the gates came down on thousands of bodegas across New York City. Many were Yemeni-owned, family-run stores—places that almost never closed, not for a blizzard, not for a blackout, not even for Eid. But just this once, they did. The occasion was Donald Trump’s first Muslim ban. The…

An international traveler has pleaded guilty to a federal crime after he was accused of assaulting a police K9 at Dulles International Airport, kicking it so hard it went airborne.According to an affidavit from a federal air marshal, Hamed Aly Marie allegedly attacked the Customs and Border Protection K9, named Freddy, as it was helping screen luggage Tuesday at a baggage claim area where EgyptAir Flight 981 luggage was being deposited after arriving at the Washington, D.C., area airport.Freddy, a beagle “trained to find illicit agricultural contraband,” was helping with screening in the baggage claim area when he “alerted to…

The State Department may begin laying off hundreds of Washington, D.C.,-based employees as soon as this Friday, according to internal correspondence among staff that was shared with CBS News, amid an effort by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to streamline what he has called a “bloated” bureaucracy. The precise timing of the cuts could be affected by a looming decision by the Supreme Court which could soon hand down a ruling on whether to leave in place a lower court’s order that temporarily paused government-wide layoffs. The Justice Department asked the high court earlier this month to lift the district court’s…

Amr Bo Shanab/Getty Images Republicans are facing a conundrum. They want to cut taxes with their “One Big Beautiful Bill.” But the tax cuts they want will explode the federal debt. So they’ve been looking for spending cuts. One big area where they want to slash: Medicaid, which provides over 75 million Americans — including low-income families, seniors and disabled people — with health insurance. The conundrum: Medicaid is widely popular, including among many Republican voters in their now more working-class coalition forged by President Trump. So how can they cut Medicaid while sheltering themselves from the political fallout of…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former journalist Lauren Sanchez are set to tie the knot in Italy this week, even as local frustrations mount over the multi-million dollar event. Here’s what to know about the three-day wedding celebration, as well as the protests unfolding in the background.Where and when is the wedding?Bezos, 61, and Sanchez’s wedding extravaganza kicks off in Venice this Thursday, with the ceremony scheduled to take place Saturday at an undisclosed location. The duo were sighted earlier this week as they arrived via taxi-boat at the Aman Hotel, a five-star hotel on the Grand Canal in Venice. Amazon’s founder…

Fifty years ago, Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter now fears its soul is being sold. Ad Policy Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and executive editor Ben Bradlee leave US District Court in Washington on June 21, 1971, happy with Judge Gerhard A. Gesell’s ruling the the paper could publish further articles about a Pentagon report on Vietnam. Later however, the US Court of Appeals extended for one more day a ban against publishing the secret documents.(AP Photo / stf / bd) Fifty-four years ago, in 1971, my grandmother Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington…