Live updates and the latest news as Trump addresses House Republicans about the reconciliation bill and RFK Jr. testifies to Congress about DOGE cuts and his vaccine views.

The fate of Trump's "big, beautiful bill" remains mired in uncertainty despite a last minute, in-person pitch to Republicans.

Famed director Wes Anderson made a mockery of Donald Trump at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday over the president’s proposal to impose 100% tariffs on movies made outside the United States. “Can you hold up the movie in customs?

(This May 16 story was refiled without any changes to text.) (Reuters) - A federal appeals court lifted an order on Friday that blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain over working conditions.

For now the Holy See says the idea of even hosting talks is more a hope than a concrete plan.

Film director Wes Anderson has mocked Donald Trump’s tariff plan designed to save the American movie industry. While promoting his new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, in Cannes, Anderson questioned Trump’s vision,

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Israeli authorities prevented Ayed Ayoub from escaping Gaza's hunger and war with his family for an academic fellowship in France. He finally left last month, after Israel unexpectedly eased its tight control of the border.