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Republican senators voted down a measure to halt the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of Venezuela that President Trump’s administration argues are smuggling drugs into the country.

Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure that would terminate the president’s legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners. By Robert Jimison Reporting from the Capitol Republicans in ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday signaled opposition to moving a stand-alone bill to pay military service members during a government shutdown, walking back his Tuesday statement saying ...

Brazil’s Congress races to approve Provisional Measure 1,303/25 before it expires at midnight. The bill aims to secure over R$17 billion in 2026 after the government dropped the IOF tax hike. Failure ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Lowe’s cat Francine, who is finally back in Richmond after she went missing across state lines for weeks, was welcomed back into her home store with a “catwalk” on the blue ...

PHOENIX – If you live in the Phoenix area, you may have seen the campaign signs or received election pamphlets for Proposition 409. But you still might be wondering exactly what Prop 409 is. If passed ...

TikTok users speak almost reverently about the how the app’s algorithm recommends videos that are so eerily aligned with their tastes, it’s hard to put the app down. The consequence of that ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Times is tallying contributions to committees supporting and opposing Proposition 50 from now until the ...

The hotel tax hike already imposed by the city of San Diego, and considered by voters more than five years ago, remains on solid legal ground, a state appellate court has determined. Friday, ...