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.

Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer, a Democrat, signed a measure on Tuesday to legalize physician-assisted suicide for some terminally ill patients.

Water, gas and electricity prices all went up on 1 April along with a host of other bills, pushing inflation further above the Bank of England's target of 2%.

Maryland lawmakers introduced a bill Monday to posthumously award Henrietta Lacks a Congressional Gold Medal for her contributions to medical research through her HeLa cells.

The U.S. dollar fell on Wednesday, extending a two-day slide against major peers, as President Donald Trump failed to convince Republican holdouts to back his sweeping tax bill. Traders were also wary of U.

WASHINGTON – Workers who rely on tips moved a step closer Tuesday to seeing a significant tax break when the U.S. Senate approved a new federal tax exemption. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, authored the bill, which was approved by unanimous consent, meaning no senator objected to its passage.

Nonpartisan research groups studying the proposal have estimated that it would add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal debt—currently at an all-time high of $36.8 trillion—over the next decade. Despite those projections,

President Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill to seek support for his “big, beautiful bill" from divided House Republicans.