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After meeting at the White House Speaker Johnson vows to push ahead on Trump’s tax bill

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING, LEAH ASKARINAM and JOEY CAPPELLETTI
May 21, 2025 9:37 am - Defying opposition within his ranks, House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted late Wednesday that Republicans would march ahead on their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package after a lengthy White House meeting with GOP holdouts refusing to back the bill.
Two of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli forces, staff say

By SARAH EL DEEB
May 21, 2025 8:51 am - Two of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals have been encircled by Israeli troops, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the facilities, hospital staff and aid groups said this week, as Israel pursued its renewed offensive into the devastated Palestinian territory.
82 are killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza as desperately needed aid fails to reach Palestinians

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN
May 21, 2025 8:48 am - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza — Israeli strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip Wednesday, despite a surge in international anger at Israel's widening offensive. The attacks kill...
‘Unquestionably in violation’: Judge says US government didn’t follow court order on deportations

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
May 21, 2025 8:28 am - The White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries with a flight linked to the chaotic African nation of South Sudan, a federal judge said Wednesday, hours after the Trump administration said it had expelled eight immigrants convicted of violent crimesbut refused to reveal where they would end up.
The Senate passed Trump’s No Tax on Tips Act. Here’s what it could mean.

Annabelle Timsit
May 21, 2025 8:24 am - The Senate unexpectedly passed the No Tax on Tips Act in a unanimous vote Tuesday, giving weight to the prospect of eliminating federal income tax for cash tips, which pi...
Trump’s Homeland Security secretary says habeas corpus lets him ‘remove people from this country’

By MEG KINNARD
May 20, 2025 8:11 pm - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the...
Arrested New Orleans jail worker says he helped inmates to escape after stabbing threat

By JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE
May 20, 2025 4:03 pm - NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a cell wall, allowing 10 men to s...
UK suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers

By BRIAN MELLEY and SYLVIE CORBET
May 20, 2025 3:49 pm - LONDON — The U.K. suspended free trade talks with Israel on Tuesday and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, less than a day after vowing “concrete actions” if Israel d...
George Wendt, who played a beloved barfly on ‘Cheers’ and found another home onstage, dies at 76

By MARK KENNEDY
May 20, 2025 3:19 pm - George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in “Art,” “Hairspray” and “Elf,” has died. He was 76.
Rubio defends Trump foreign policy as Democratic senators ask pointed questions

By MATTHEW LEE and ELLEN KNICKMEYER
May 20, 2025 2:14 pm - Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic senators sparred Tuesday over the Trump administration’s foreign policies, ranging from Ukraine and Russia to the Middle East, Latin America, the slashing of the U.S. foreign assistance budget and refugee admissions.

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