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Trump signs executive order setting 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower prescription drug costs

By WILL WEISSERT and AMANDA SEITZ
May 12, 2025 7:13 am - President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay.
US and China take a step back from sky-high tariffs and agree to pause for 90 days for more talks

By JAMEY KEATEN, DAVID McHUGH, ELAINE KURTENBACH and KEN MORITSUGU
May 12, 2025 7:05 am - U.S. and Chinese officials said Monday they had reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs and call a 90-day truce in their trade war for more talks on resolving their trade disputes.
Trump team mulls suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?

By WILL WEISSERT
May 10, 2025 4:00 pm - WASHINGTON — White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the ...
Newark mayor denies trespassing at immigration detention center following arrest

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, CLAUDIA LAUER and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI
May 10, 2025 3:52 pm - Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Saturday denied trespassing at a new federal immigration detention center during a confrontation that led to his arrest while the Democrat was ...
India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating ceasefire hours after reaching deal

By MUNIR AHMED, AIJAZ HUSSAIN and RAJESH ROY
May 10, 2025 8:01 am - India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.
Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies

By JANIE HAR
May 09, 2025 9:08 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — The Republican administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. Judge Susan Illston i...
‘Don’t get in my way,’ the new acting head of federal disaster agency warns in call with staff

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA and REBECCA SANTANA
May 09, 2025 7:36 pm - WASHINGTON — The new head of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country warned staff in a meeting Friday not to try to impede upcoming chan...
ICE moves detainees to Texas facility where judge declined to halt deportations

By Jeremy Roebuck and Marianne LeVine
May 09, 2025 6:33 pm - As the Trump administration battles to use a wartime law to speed deportations of alleged gang members, it has moved dozens of detained Venezuelans to the one court distr...
Trump revives, then discards, then revives again the idea of taxing the rich in big GOP bill

By LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM
May 09, 2025 6:32 pm - WASHINGTON — After musing publicly and privately with the idea of raising the top tax rate for wealthy millionaires as Republicans draft his big bill in Congress, Preside...
Even with DOGE cuts, the U.S. has spent $166 billion more than last year

By Jacob Bogage
May 09, 2025 4:16 pm - Even as President Donald Trump and the efficiency-geared U.S. DOGE Service seek to cut programs and dramatically reduce the size of the government workforce, the federal deficit increased by $196 billion so far this fiscal year, as spending on social safety-net services and defense programs continue to climb.

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