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Senate GOP is kickstarting budget reconciliation to fund ICE. Here's how that works.

Democrats used it to pass elements of then-President Joe Biden's agenda, like the [COVID-19 relief package](https://www.npr.org/2021/02/05/964365980/senate-passes-budget-resolution-vice-president-harris-breaks-tie) and the [Inflation Reduction Act](https://www.npr.org/2022/08/07/1116190180/democrats-are-set-to-pass-a-major-climate-health-and-tax-bill-heres-whats-in-it). More recently, Congressional Republicans used

Israel starts a tense ceasefire in Lebanon. And, Trump nominates a new CDC director.

social media after he had separate phone calls with leaders of Israel and Lebanon. Hezbollah was not involved in the ceasefire discussions. Israel has vowed to [keep its forces in southern Lebanon](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5787392/iran-middle-east-updates),

A new Ebola outbreak has already killed 87 people

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are concerned about an Ebola outbreak in the country's Ituri province. There are already hundreds of suspected cases, including one that crossed the border into Uganda. The latest strain

Trump tells Merz to ‘fix his broken country’ in new attack on German chancellor

social media post. Merz should instead focus on “fixing his broken Country,” he wrote, “especially Immigration and Energy, and less time on interfering with those that are getting rid of the Iran Nuclear threat, thereby

Timeline: How Mali went from democracy beacon to instability

socialism. But his rule of the country through socialist policies of nationalisation failed to yield economic benefits. The country also experienced severe droughts, which led to poor harvests under his leadership. In November 1968, Keita

School choice is booming in Iowa. Are students better off?

socially, he said, all three are doing well and thriving at Prep. The Kaiz-Veras are now committed to the charter school – so much so that they weren't swayed after a story broke about

World Health Organization declares Ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday. However WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in [a statement](https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern) it "does not meet the criteria

U.S. and Iran exchange strikes. And, House passes ICE and Border Patrol funding

Democrats were unable to secure a mandate for immigration officers to wear body cameras, provisions on warrants needed to enter homes or limitations on face coverings. - ➡️ **ICE denies having a protester database

Trump's rift with Pope is playing out in public - it's costing him valuable support

social media attack on the first American pope, as too liberal and too "weak on crime", together with the AI image, have crystallised a shift in opinion among many Catholic conservatives since the war began

Tesla's profits beat expectations, but Elon Musk says big costs are ahead

Democrats remain more interested in purchasing electric vehicles.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1956x1955+0+763/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2b%2Fd6%2F3b02f32547558780b91b0e5e5da8%2Fgettyimages-2203996414.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325321/elon-musk-tesla-politics-republican-buyers-sales) ### [Business](https://www.npr.org/sections/business/) ### [Elon Musk is winning Republican fans. Can Tesla win them over, too?](https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325321/elon-musk-tesla-politics-republican-buyers-sales) [![Electric cars sit parked

FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Jimmy Kimmel’s Melania Trump joke

Democrat on the FCC, has decried any attempt to speed up the license renewal process for ABC – or any other television network that has been targeted by the Trump administration. “This is unprecedented, unlawful

Trump claims gala shooting gives urgency to White House ballroom plan

Social on Sunday morning. He said that the shooting incident, which caused Trump and senior administration to be hustled out of the Hilton hotel complex, and hundreds of guests to duck for cover, “would never

Canada’s Carney says Alberta is ‘essential’ as province mulls separation

democratic rights of hundreds of thousands of Albertans,” she said in a video message. A group that calls itself Stay Free Alberta says it gathered more than 300,000 signatures to trigger a separation vote

Opposition divided: battle among Iranian regime’s opponents plays out on London streets

democratic discourse and to those struggling for a free and pluralistic Iran. No one can credibly claim to stand for freedom while glorifying the symbols of authoritarian rule.” Around Finchley road, in north London

‘We don’t have another country to run to’: Kenyans fear US plan for Ebola quarantine site

Democratic Republic of the Congo are battling to contain an outbreak of the virus. The outbreak [was declared on 15 May](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/15/ebola-outbreak-drc-africa-deaths), but the virus is thought to have been circulating undetected

Republicans stall votes on partisan ICE funding amid party infighting

Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116607551580410444). "Or you'll all be looking for a job much sooner than you thought possible." But Trump's moves to rail against his own party could end up backfiring, not only

FCC orders early license renewal for ABC stations following Kimmel's first lady joke

social media post [calling for Kimmel to be fired](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116477838570626860). As the early license renewal order went out, FCC Chair Brendan Carr criticized ABC's parent company, Disney. [Speaking on a podcast hosted

Trump’s antipathy for Pope may have roots in childhood Protestant church

social media, make a good deal more sense considering Trump attended services as a young man at the Protestant Marble Collegiate church in Manhattan, which was led at the time by an anti-Catholic pastor

‘We’re Catholic first’: Sunday mass attendees weigh in on Trump’s feud with Pope Leo

Social platform after criticizing Pope Leo. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images The AI image also crossed a line for Nick Dicarlo, an operations manager in Duluth and a self-described conservative. “In terms of his depiction

Broadcasters too reliant on vox pop interviews and failing to challenge politicians, says study

Democrats, the Greens, Plaid Cymru and the SNP as “major parties”, so it is expected that they all broadly receive similar levels of coverage. The researchers found that “large chunks of airtime were dedicated