Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday succeeded in a high-stakes House vote to pass President Donald Trump’s plan to fund the government into the fall, overcoming far-right opposition as the GOP scrambles to avert a government shutdown Friday at midnight.
An announcement could come as soon as Tuesday, according to people familiar with the situation, and could portend a move by the Trump administration to essentially dismantle the department.
Also, Trump walked back a plan to double metal tariffs on Canada. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended that helicopter traffic be banned from a four-mile stretch over the Potomac River when flights are landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Plus, a tale of two Rwandas.
Federal crash investigators have said a helicopter route used by an Army Black Hawk for training when it crashed midair with a passenger aircraft over Washington, D.C., in late January, killing all aboard, poses a major aviation risk and called for immediate changes.
As another government shutdown looms, Congress has a choice: act to restrain spending or face the irony that inaction remains the only obstacle to runaway government
French President Emmanuel Macron led a gathering of Europe’s defense chiefs as the continent has moved to step up its own defense and meet NATO spending requirements.
Federal investigators probing the deadly January crash between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter over the Potomac River are calling for a ban on certain helicopter flights, saying the current rules are too dangerous.