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Davids urges House vote on extending health insurance tax credit

TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas joined five dozen colleagues requesting a House vote on legislation extending federal tax credits set to expire at the end of December that were implemented to moderate Affordable Care Act insurance costs. In the letter signed by 59 lawmakers and ...

Supreme Court weighing Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court met in private Friday with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump 's birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices could say ...

Potential presidential candidates are less coy about plans than in years past

NEW YORK — There was a time when presidential hopefuls played coy about their ambitions, crisscrossing the country under the guise of helping other candidates and deflecting when pushed on their obvious plans. Not so for some Democrats considering running in 2028. With no clear party leader ...

Republicans hyped the Epstein files for years; now Trump is under pressure to deliver

WASHINGTON — What began as a campaign-trail promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files has become one of the most fraught tests of President Donald Trump's second term — opening a rift in his political coalition and raising the stakes for an administration now under intense pressure to ...

Respect and remembrance for Cheney from past presidents and VPs; Trump, Vance excluded

WASHINGTON — They gathered at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday — former presidents, vice presidents, sworn political foes and newfound friends — in a show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarizing vice president who became an acidic scold of ...