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The president’s proposed budget for 2026 cuts the agency by nearly 25 percent. That would be the largest single-year cut in NASA’s history, taking it back to a level last seen in 1961.

Pepper, a feline owned by virologist John Lednicky, recently discovered orthoreovirus on a dead rodent.

The region was hit with heavy rain Monday evening, resulting in flash floods that not only impacted roads and air travel, but also the transit system.

Robin Peguero, who served as investigative counsel for the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, is launching a bid to unseat Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) in Florida.  “It’s time for us to write a new story for South Florida — one where hard-working families stop being forced to choose between…

Officials from three universities will testify before the House Education Committee Tuesday morning around accusations of rising antisemitism on college campuses. Leaders from Georgetown University in Washington, University of California, Berkeley, and the City University of New York will face questions from lawmakers over the “the role of faculty, funding and ideology” in fueling antisemitism,…

Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) will return to Capitol Hill Monday to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on China’s critical minerals supply chain and U.S. competitiveness. Manchin, who now serves on the board of critical minerals producer Ramaco Resources, retired from Congress in January. Once considered the most moderate Democrat in the upper…

Senate Republicans are scrambling to steer clear of the controversy exploding within their MAGA-aligned party’s base over allegations that the Trump administration is hiding information related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his “clients.” President Trump is facing what may be the biggest backlash he’s ever encountered from usually loyal activists, such as former…

The Democratic National Committee announced an initial $1.5 million investment in Virginia on Tuesday in an effort to help candidates up and down the ballot in November’s off-year elections.  The investment in the state is one of the largest and earliest investments the committee has made to the Virginia Democratic Coordinated Campaign during an off…

Voters are heading to the polls in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday to choose their primary picks to succeed the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who died in March.  Five Democrats are vying for the nomination to represent the blue district in Arizona, which stretches across much of the state’s southern border and includes…

The dramatic surge in funding for immigration enforcement agencies puts spending at a level that rivals foreign military forces, creating a benchmark critics fear will serve as the norm for years to come. President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” triples funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  Its $30 billion now exceeds funding levels for the militaries of Canada and…