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Two Israeli Embassy employees were fatally shot Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said. “Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington DC,” Noem wrote on X.      Two law enforcement sources told CBS News that an Israeli diplomat and his female companion were fatally shot as they exited an event at the museum. The sources said the shooting appears to have been a targeted attack. Employees of the Israeli Embassy who were at the event were also injured, sources said. The shooting was on F…

President Trump speaks alongside Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Trump was on hand to meet with House Republicans and rally support for his legislative agenda. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images House Republicans released an updated version of their massive bill on Wednesday in hopes of advancing much of President Trump’s domestic agenda by the end of the week. The new legislation aims to satisfy competing demands from fiscal hawks looking to reduce the deficit to blue state Republicans looking to lock in more favorable taxes for their constituents.…

The Senate is set to vote this week on revoking three vehicle emissions waivers in California, in a controversial move that the chamber’s parliamentarian says Republican lawmakers may not have the right to do.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the planned vote “the nuclear option.” The three waivers the Senate is looking to revoke set stricter vehicle emissions standards than federal regulations. Two waivers relate to reducing tailpipe emissions from medium and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as limiting smog pollution from trucks. The last is what’s frequently called California’s “EV mandate,” a rule that aims to phase-out gas powered cars and require…

We need to be sending more federal research dollars to more people in more places. Instead, the government is doing the opposite. Ad Policy A memorial for the loss of funding for research and public health programs is placed in front of the National Institutes of Health on May 10, 2025.(Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images) It has been a tumultuous few months for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—a federal agency that funds billions of dollars in health-related research. From the very beginning of the second Trump administration, the ability of the NIH to support research has been severely hampered.…

The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple, a historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968, was intentionally set, investigators said Wednesday.The Memphis Fire Department said the fire on April 28 was started on the interior of the church, and authorities are searching for a person of interest. Memphis Fire Chief Gina Sweat last month described the inside of the church as “a total loss.” Media Update: Clayborn Temple Fire Investigation pic.twitter.com/mcFaPmt9NW— Memphis Fire Department (@MEM_Fire) May 21, 2025 The fire department also released images of the person…

ICE officials and a prison contractor have refused to grant a contact visit between Mahmoud Khalil and his family, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, denying him the chance to hold his newborn son. The boy was born last month while Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist, remained in ICE custody in Louisiana.”After flying over a thousand miles to Louisiana with our newborn son, his very first flight, all so his father could finally hold him in his arms, ICE has denied us even this most basic human right,” his wife, Noor Abdalla, said in a…

A Qatari Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac of Palm Beach International airport after President Trump toured the aircraft on Feb. 15. The U.S. has since accepted the luxury Boeing jet from the Qatari royal family. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images The United States has officially accepted a Boeing 747-8 luxury jetliner as a gift from the Qatari government, and the Air Force has been tasked with upgrading it to be used as a new plane for President Trump, according to an Air Force spokesperson. The spokesperson, who spoke on the…

The Trump administration on Wednesday said it placed eight migrant detainees with serious criminal records on a deportation flight that lawyers alleged was destined for the violence-plagued African country of South Sudan, in its latest attempt to deport migrants to countries that are not their own. The administration has not publicly disclosed the whereabouts of the flight, which a federal judge on Wednesday said “unquestionably” violated a court ruling blocking deportations to third countries without allowing detainees to contest their removal.Top Department of Homeland Security officials said the eight men were in the U.S. illegally and hailed from Cuba, Laos, Mexico,…

May 21, 2025 For all the deserved criticism of the American media, it remains one of the strongest pillars propping up what’s left of democracy in a time that’s been anything but good for the First Amendment. Ad Policy President Donald Trump speaks to the press on the South Lawn of the White House in 2018.(Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism.…