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Lauren Morganbesser

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Sudan sanctions may catch ride on defense bill

Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, filed the PEACE in Sudan Act as an amendment to the annual defense policy bill moving through the chamber.
Jim Risch
Kylie Cooper/Reuters

Washington honors Lindsey Graham

World leaders paid their respects to the late South Caro
Funeral service for late Senator Lindsey Graham
Evan Vucci/Reuters

Lull in Iran conflict tests Trump

A second straight day without US-Iran strikes shifted attention from the battlefield to the White House, where President Donald Trump faces an increasingly narrow set of options.
President Donald Trump
Evan Vucci/Reuters

India’s Modi is dealt a rare defeat by youth protesters

Weeks of youth-led protests forced the resignation of India’s education minister, forcing a rare concession from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
Supporters of India’s Cockroach Janta Party celebrate after India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned
Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Lawmakers warn Trump over possible Mali strikes

Senators said the administration hasn’t consulted them about the potential operation.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Key Democrat will oppose crypto bill absent stronger ethics language

Sen. Angela Alsobrooks called draft language “wild and unserious”
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md.
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Republican senator rails against AI data centers

Kansas voters are “on fire” against them, Roger Marshall warns

Lebanon’s president pushes Trump on Israel

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s US visit marks the first by a Lebanese head of state in nearly 20 years.

The Nazi who manipulated Hitler — and the postwar public

Newly translated from French, Jean-Noël Orengo’s novel reexamines the life of Albert Speer, who reinvented himself after World War II.

Incoming UK prime minister aims to turn economy around

Andy Burnham becomes the UK’s new prime minister on Monday, and fixing Britain’s economy will be at the top of his agenda.

US troop deaths heighten pressure facing Trump on Iran

The US pounded Iran with fresh strikes after two American soldiers were killed in an attack on an air base in Jordan on Friday, pushing the two sides closer to all-out war.

Trump turns to commercial diplomacy in Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s warm welcome from Trump buoyed by billions in expected deal announcements

Democrats wage a new campaign culture war with the alpha left

The old divisions reopened between the party’s establishment and its swaggering young progressives won’t heal easily, despite Graham Platner’s exit.

Parasitic infection outbreak exposes deep cracks in public health

A sprawling cyclospora outbreak spotlights deeper issues in America’s public health system.

Trump’s resource diplomacy comes to Libya

Critics say Washington’s proposed power-sharing deal would trade elections for stability while opening the door to US oil companies.

Ukraine pursues a government shakeup

Ukraine’s prime minister stepped down on Sunday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy oversees a sweeping government reorganization spurred by a new “political strategy.”

Trump’s Supreme Court mulligan ‘exceedingly unlikely,’ experts say

The president faces long odds in trying to get the court to reconsider his defeat on birthright citizenship and E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million civil judgment against him.

Behind Lockheed subsidiary’s payments for new White House helipad

The president said on Monday that the helipad construction would be paid for by the Lockheed Martin-owned Sikorsky.