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The Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday told Maine that it has frozen federal funding for the state over its failure to comply with an executive order that bans transgender people from competing in women's sports. Read More.

A Las Vegas-bound Alaska Airlines flight was forced to suddenly land and evacuate passengers in Portland, Ore. Wednesday, when a “strong odor” was detected in the plane’s cockpit, officials said. Read More.

Finland's prime minister said Tuesday the country plans to withdraw from the international treaty banning anti-personnel mines, the latest signatory moving to ditch the ban over threats from Russia. Read More.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) officially broke the record Tuesday night for the longest floor speech in the history of the United States Senate. Read More.

A federal judge dismissed the charges at the request of the Justice Department, which had argued that the case distracted from Adams' ability to enact Trump's immigration agenda. Read More.

Wisconsin already required photo ID to vote, but now the law will be enshrined into the state constitution Read More.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs already. Read More.

President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal’’ tariffs that he is expected to announce Wednesday are likely to create chaos for global businesses and conflict with America’s allies and adversaries alike. Read More.

Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids. Read More.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom torched his own political party and said Democrats have to speak to Republicans — and reject cancel culture — if they want to win. Read More.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that Tehran had rejected direct negotiations with Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump penned a letter to the regime pushing for fresh talks on a nuclear deal. Read More.

President Trump said he’s “not joking” about serving a third term in the White House — and thinks there’s a loophole to make it happen. Read More.

The Department of Health and Human Services is undergoing a dramatic overhaul, slashing its workforce and reshaping its mission in one of the most significant reorganizations in agency history. Read More.

The Trump administration will leave Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) in the House, just days before the Senate was finally ready to move on her nomination as UN ambassador. Read More.

Billionaire Elon Musk said he plans to hold a rally in Wisconsin to “personally hand over” $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race, despite a state law that prohibits giving anything of value in exchange for voting. Read More.