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President Donald Trump is seen on a monitor watching footage of U.S. military strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses reporters on March 17.

As Democrats focus on Signal use, team Trump flashes familiar definition of war

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 27, 2025 at 5:12pm
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington on March 10.

HHS to cut 10,000 jobs, ‘streamline’ operations

By Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted March 27, 2025 at 11:20am
Vehicles awaiting shipment are parked at a port Thursday in Yokohama, Japan. President Donald Trump announced his plan to impose a 25 percent tariff on imported automobiles.

Trump adds 25 percent tariff to car, light truck imports

By Olivia M. Bridges
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:44am
Dr. Marty Makary, nominee to be commissioner of the FDA, appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on March 6.

Targeting FDA user fees would leave agency gutted, experts say

By Lia DeGroot
Posted March 27, 2025 at 7:00am
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C.

Appeals court keeps temporary hold on Trump deportation move

By Chris Johnson
Posted March 26, 2025 at 7:35pm
President Donald Trump greets members after addressing a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

White House halts long-running HIV research network for youth

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:41pm
JD Vance speaks with Donald Trump on Jan. 20 during an inauguration ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda before they were sworn in as vice president and president respectively. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images file photo)

Signal posts shed light on Vance’s views on military force and foreign policy

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:16pm
A beam of sunlight breaks through the cloudy skies to illuminate the Supreme Court in Washington.

Supreme Court sounds skeptical of ending FCC program

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 26, 2025 at 3:43pm
The Supreme Court building in Washington.

Supreme Court upholds federal regulation of ‘ghost guns’

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 26, 2025 at 10:54am
Martin Makary, nominee to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 6.

Senate confirms Makary for FDA commissioner

By Lia DeGroot
Posted March 25, 2025 at 9:35pm
Jay Bhattacharya, confirmed Tuesday as director of the National Institutes of Health, is shown as he prepared to testify during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on March 5.

Senate confirms Bhattacharya to lead NIH

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 25, 2025 at 7:31pm
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator nominee Mehmet Oz prepares to testify during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Finance Committee on March 14.

Senate Finance advances Oz nomination to lead CMS

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted March 25, 2025 at 4:12pm
A flag with the Environmental Protection Agency logo.

Supreme Court weighs where ‘good neighbor’ pollution lawsuits go

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 25, 2025 at 3:44pm
One-year-old River Jacobs is held by his mother, Caitlin Fuller, while he receives an MMR vaccine March 1, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas.

Measles outbreak sends warning for future of infectious disease

By Nina Heller
Posted March 25, 2025 at 3:22pm
Visitors walk across the Supreme Court plaza to enter the building.

Supreme Court to weigh congressional power to delegate

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 25, 2025 at 11:48am
Jayanta Bhattacharya, nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health, prepares to tesify at his Senate confirmation hearing on March 5. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump cancels NIH grants on equity research

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted March 24, 2025 at 6:18pm
The exterior of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campus in Chamblee, Ga., March 18, 2025.

Trump to tap Monarez to lead CDC

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 24, 2025 at 4:48pm
Justices are expected to issue a decision in the case by the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s term at the end of June.

Supreme Court explores Louisiana’s use of race in redistricting

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 24, 2025 at 2:54pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., says the money wasn't needed anymore and therefore available for higher priorities.

Vanished earmarks in stopgap law pose challenge to local projects’ return

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 24, 2025 at 2:46pm
A woman holds a sign against the deportation of 238 Venezuelans from the U.S. to a Salvadoran jail, in Maracaibo, Venezuela on March 18.

US resists transparency on Venezuelan gang deportation moves

By Chris Johnson
Posted March 24, 2025 at 1:28pm
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks during a water policy rule signing ceremony at the EPA on Feb. 18.

Interior reopens millions of acres in Alaska for energy development

By David Jordan
Posted March 20, 2025 at 5:44pm
A stop sign outside the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington.

Institute of Peace asks court to halt Trump administration takeover

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 19, 2025 at 1:31pm, Updated at 4:40pm
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

Judge blocks EPA effort to cancel billions in climate grants

By David Jordan
Posted March 19, 2025 at 1:04pm
With Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi behind him, President Donald Trump delivers his 2019 State of the Union address, in which he vowed to end HIV in the United States by 2030.

Trump’s policies threaten his 2019 vow to end HIV, experts say

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted March 19, 2025 at 7:00am
During an address to Congress on March 4, President Donald Trump told lawmakers they should roll back the CHIPS law.

Ohio officials hopeful Intel gets plant funds targeted by Trump

By Jacob Fulton
Posted March 19, 2025 at 5:00am
President Donald Trump, seen Monday during a tour at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, posted on social media Tuesday that the judge in the case should be impeached.

DOJ says disclosing migrant flight information is ‘inappropriate’

By Chris Johnson
Posted March 18, 2025 at 2:43pm
Elon Musk, of the Department of Government Efficiency, leaves a lunch with Senate Republicans in the Capitol on March 5.

Musk conflict complaints appear moot with Trump in charge

By Valerie Yurk
Posted March 18, 2025 at 1:48pm
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference with members of the Congressional Black Caucus during House Democrats' retreat at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on March 13.

House majority rules: When a ‘calendar day’ isn’t what it seems

By Hunter Savery and Daniel Hillburn
Posted March 18, 2025 at 10:02am
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington.

Groups question if Trump deportation move defied court order

By Chris Johnson
Posted March 17, 2025 at 12:38pm
Rep. Nita M. Lowey, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference to announce efforts to oppose defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on Feb. 16 , 2011.

Former Rep. Nita Lowey, first woman to lead House Appropriations, dies

By CQ Roll Call Staff
Posted March 16, 2025 at 5:34pm