Republicans Face a Tough Path Ahead

Also, Kennedy tells anti-vaccine group they have a friend in the White House. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.Representative María Elvira Salazar on Capitol Hill in May.

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Kennedy Center Closure Prompts Legal Fight Over Trump-Backed Renovation

The federal judge denied a Democratic lawmaker’s request for an emergency hearing on the closure, which began on Tuesday.Matt Floca, the executive director of the Kennedy Center, has said the building has serious maintenance needs, including structural steel corroded by water infiltration.

J Julia Jacobs

G.O.P. Representative Breaks With Trump in Ad Criticizing the Immigration Crackdown

Representative María Elvira Salazar, a three-term representative from Miami, won re-election by 20 percentage points in 2024. Her ad suggests worry among some Republicans about their standing with Hispanic voters.Representative María Elvira Salazar, a Florida Republican, released a television ad on

P Patricia Mazzei, Michael Gold and Shane Goldmacher

Montana Ballot Measure Would Strike at Political ‘Dark Money’

A measure aimed at stemming the tide of corporate money in politics will be on the November ballot. Opponents say it violates a high court ruling.Montana voters will be asked whether to bar businesses, unions and nonprofit groups from donating to political candidates or parties.

N Neil Vigdor

U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says

Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians.A memorial in Tehran for the victims of an airstrike on an elementary school in Minab.

N Nick Cumming-Bruce

For a Border Tribe, Trump’s Wall Is a Betrayal: ‘They Want to Erase Us’

An escalating confrontation on Native land southwest of Tucson threatens to upend decades of uneasy cooperation between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States.“It’s like me bulldozing right through the Arlington Cemetery,” said Verlon Jose, the chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation.

R Reis Thebault and Anna Watts

S.U.V. Driver Charged With Murder in Los Angeles Bus Crash

Prosecutors said the driver was impaired by drugs and ran a red light before ramming a city bus on Tuesday. Two people died. Compounding the tragedy, a news helicopter also crashed.An S.U.V. slammed into a bus in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, on Tuesday

L Livia Albeck-Ripka