The fact that the plan came up well short of even 50 votes was an ominous sign for Republican leaders still grappling with a formula to pass final health care legislation later this week.
Senator John McCain, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, spoke to the Senate after casting his vote to begin debating legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Senator John McCain ambled into the Senate chamber less than two weeks after brain surgery to help put a health care bill over the line.
The president’s unforgiving campaign against his own attorney general opens rift with the right and leaves White House at war with the Justice Department. Another member of the White House press shop resigned as President Trump’s new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, threatened to fire the whole staff to stop leaking.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
At a news conference on Tuesday at the White House, President Trump took questions about his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. The group tried to distance itself from a speech by President Trump that was laced with political attacks and enraged many parents and former Scouts.
A Special Forces sergeant who was the only one of four Americans to escape spoke publicly for the first time about that day.
The bill limits the president’s ability to lift or suspend sanctions against Russia, North Korea and Iran.
Paul Manafort met with Intelligence Committee investigators to discuss the June 2016 meeting between a Russian lawyer and members of President Trump’s inner circle.
Using economic penalties to achieve diplomatic goals has a poor track record when the target is powerful and autocratic, and workarounds exist.
Experience Shakespeare in 360 degrees and the way the Bard intended — in the great outdoors. The deaths in El Paso came days after the authorities discovered the bodies of eight migrants packed in a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio.
A lawyer for Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis’ top advisers, said the prelate would plead not guilty to all charges. The hearing lasted six minutes.
The estimate significantly shortens the time that analysts believed it would take the regime to develop a weapon capable of reaching the continental United States.
The automaker’s second-quarter decline in profit was partially attributed to the pending sale of its Opel and Vauxhall divisions in Europe.
A Republican plan that diverted funds to the program and did not allocate additional funds for in-house V.A. care galvanized opposition groups.
Did the university move too slowly in responding to allegations of drug abuse by one of its most prominent deans?
Last week, as the White House fell into an increasingly fractious debate over Afghanistan policy, Trump aides met with a chemical executive to discuss the potential for extracting rare-earth minerals.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is perfecting the art of image while his underlings weaken the conservation measures of the Obama administration.
In “The Retreat of Western Liberalism,” Edward Luce argues that the tradition of liberty is under mortal threat.
Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, were recorded disparaging President Trump and another G.O.P. lawmaker.
Bitcoin Cash, to be available Aug. 1, sprang from a feud over how to govern a decentralized, open-source technology with no one set of leaders or owners.
Guatemalan coffee is revered at cafes around the world. Now it is gaining a devoted following not far from the farms where it is grown.
iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba robotic vacuum, is considering selling the mapping data the devices collect to a company like Google or Amazon.
United Airlines had mistakenly told travelers returning home from Comic-Con International in San Diego to remove comic books from their checked bags.
The fast-food chain is testing a program in which riders using Lyft can request a stop at a drive-through during late-night rides home.
The Pacific state updated its emergency preparedness guidelines to include information on a blast that officials say is unlikely.
At a time when audiences crave female empowerment, she is packing a punch, first in “Mad Max: Fury Road” and now in “Atomic Blonde.”
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