Guantánamo Bay is still open. This week, pressure ramped up to close it

This week, a group of nearly 100 advocacy organizations sent a letter to President Biden urging him to finally close the facility.
This week, a group of nearly 100 advocacy organizations sent a letter to President Biden urging him to finally close the facility.
President Trump signed a series of executive actions that would limit transgender and nonbinary people's rights by focusing on "gender ideology." But the term is loaded, without a universal definition.
An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.
An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.
Trump has long felt that Japan and other wealthy allies take advantage of the U.S., racking up big trade surpluses, while paying too little for the cost of American military protection.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is working with House Republicans to advance a budget bill that would allow Republicans to pass many of Trump's top policy priorities without threat of a Senate filibuster.
An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.
Two letters from different groups of senators call for answers from the Trump administration about pauses in scientific communications and funding.
Marko Elez had recently been given special access by a federal judge to highly sensitive payment systems in the Department of Treasury.
Congress holds the power of the purse. But President Trump and Elon Musk are swiftly using executive actions to dismantle federal programs funded and approved by Congress.