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If the suspect in the recent D.C. case planned to kill people because of their Jewish faith, this would represent a major anomaly in lethal, antisemitic violence. (Image credit: Anna Moneymaker)

The goal of the changes, which head to the Senate next week, is to save money and send a signal that Republicans are tough on immigration. (Image credit: Spencer Platt)

The Atlantic writer George Packer calls JD Vance the most interesting figure in the Trump administration: “He’s capable of complex thought, and I also think he may be the future of the MAGA movement.”

When President Trump talks about his foreign policy, he often frames it as a business deal. He says much less about conventional diplomacy, like ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. (Image credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI)

A judge has denied a request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging Elon Musk and DOGE are wielding unconstitutional power within the government. Separately, Musk also criticized a Trump-backed spending bill. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)

Todd and Julie Chrisley, who rose to fame in a reality show highlighting their lavish lifestyle, had been serving yearslong prison sentences after 2022 convictions on bank and tax fraud offenses. (Image credit: Jordan Strauss)

Medicaid plays a vital role in many rural communities that favored President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But residents still seem open to Republican plans to cut perceived waste in the program. (Image credit: Linda Gross for KFF Health News)

The State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students while it prepares to expand the screening of their activity on social media, officials said. (Image credit: Mark Schiefelbein)

In an Arizona county that voted for Trump 2-to-1, many people rely on Medicaid, would hate to lose it, and are persuaded that there is fraud that can be cut from the program.

A letter from the U.S. General Services Administration, which is dated Tuesday, tells agencies to submit a list of contracts they have terminated with the university by June 6. (Image credit: Zhu Ziyu)

NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president’s executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS. (Image credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

More than half of American workers don’t have a college degree. Is manufacturing a ticket for them to the middle class?

“I just didn’t think it would take this long,” one veteran head of diversity, who’s been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR. (Image credit: Cornell Watson for NPR)

Cutting off research funding for Harvard University might hurt the school, its president Alan Garber told NPR, but it also potentially sets back important work that benefits the public. (Image credit: Jay Shaylor)

President Trump delivered a speech on Memorial Day to commemorate the deaths of military service members. On social media, he veered from that presidential tone. Hear more news from the long weekend.

It’s a classic Washington power move — the late-on-Friday news dump. This past Friday, at 4:30pm, start of a long holiday weekend, about half the staff of the National Security Council got emails asking them to leave by 5pm. Dozens of people abruptly dismissed. The restructuring of the NSC as Secretary of State and National […]

The king’s visit is being seen in Canada as an opportunity for the nation to bolster its sovereignty amid threats by President Trump to turn the United States’ northern neighbor into the 51st state. (Image credit: Ben Stansall)

Trump’s remarks were a rare rebuke of the Russian president and followed a storm of drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities on Sunday evening. (Image credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta)

President Trump has ordered a Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles to house 6,000 homeless vets by 2028, but details are elusive. (Image credit: Quil Lawrence)

NPR’s Michel Martin talks with Republican strategist Alex Conant about what to expect as the House budget bill with Trump’s domestic agenda, which passed by one vote, heads to the Senate.