Politics
GENEVA — Ahead of the IOC’s first female president formally taking over next month, one of the few women leading an Olympic sport faces an election challenge. The International Table Tennis Federation’s president since 2021, Petra Sörling, is in a May 27 contest against men from Qatar and Mauritania. The vote in Doha after the…
As a Republican-backed bill moves ahead in the House, proposed tax cuts under the measure include some new and surprising changes that could impact the wallets of millions of Americans. On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee voted in favor of the bill, which would make Mr. Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent while also…
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday defended President Trump’s possible move to accept a Qatari-offered jet for the president’s use, saying “the problem is really with Boeing.” “Boeing had a responsibility to provide a new Air Force One now. They didn’t do the job,” McCarthy said on “CBS Mornings Plus.” Mr. Trump arrived Wednesday…
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to be reckoning with another health care crisis. In March, as President Trump and congressional Republicans escalated a nationwide debate over whether to slash health care for poor and disabled Americans, the Democratic governor had to tell state lawmakers that California’s health care costs had spiraled out of…
The head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a handful of teams at the agency had their layoff notices rescinded Tuesday, multiple officials say, and several worker safety programs that had been eliminated by layoffs last month are being restored. Letters reversing the layoffs arrived in the inboxes of some NIOSH…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers have passed legislation that would make it a felony to knowingly bring someone into the state who is in the U.S. illegally, echoing similar bills nationwide that could restrict domestic travel for some immigrants. The legislation given final approval Wednesday protects “not only the citizens of Alabama but also the…
Alexandria, Virginia — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of a Georgetown University researcher who was detained by immigration authorities in March as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered the release of Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral…
Washington — Senate Democrats will hold hearings next week on the dramatic overhaul at the Department of Health and Human Services amid widespread terminations that have drawn questions about the functioning of key health programs. The hearings, led by Democratic Sens. Peter Welch of Vermont and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, will center on the impact…
Washington — Legal challenges to President Trump’s tariffs could put the president on a collision course with a Supreme Court that he shaped, as his use of emergency power to unilaterally impose the levies could run into legal doctrines championed by the conservative justices to limit executive authority. Several things have to happen before the…
Senate Democrats and the Biden administration dropped plans to set drug price caps based on the amount paid in other high-income countries, during talks years ago to push through the law that empowered Medicare to negotiate down the cost of prescription medications. A version of the idea was revived by President Trump in the executive…