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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will face questioning by Senators from both parties on Wednesday and Thursday, in one of the most anticipated confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s Administration. If confirmed by the Senate, Kennedy would head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees many of the country’s health agencies, from the…

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a tech tool owned by a foreign adversary is thrusting its tentacles into the devices in tens of millions of Americans’ pockets, giving its owners…

Parents enrolling children in Oklahoma public schools would be required to provide proof of their child’s U.S. citizenship or legal immigration status under a proposal aimed at helping President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The proposed rules, which Oklahoma’s education board was set to vote on Tuesday, are in the early stages and would…

WASHINGTON — At least 56 senior officials in the top U.S. aid and development agency were placed on leave Monday amid an investigation into an alleged effort to thwart President Donald Trump’s orders. A current official and a former official at the U.S. Agency for International Development confirmed the reason given for the move Monday.…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent on Monday to serve as President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, giving him the delicate balancing act of cutting taxes and curbing deficits while putting forward a plan on tariffs that doesn’t jeopardize growth. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] He was confirmed on a 68-to-29 vote, with 16 Democrats…

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signaling an early willingness to take action favorable to the President’s personal interests. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The abrupt termination…

NEW YORK — U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately…

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed a raft of executive orders, including one proclaiming that the United States will only recognize “two sexes, male and female”—a move that could have significant practical and psychological implications for trans and nonbinary people. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The order accuses “ideologues” of denying “the biological reality…

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Visa appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia were canceled Monday following a dispute over deportation flights from the U.S. that nearly turned into a costly trade war between the two countries. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Dozens of Colombians showed up outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogota and were handed letters by local staff…

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Mitch McConnell’s Unburdened Era has begun. The Kentucky Republican, who stepped down from his role as longest-serving party leader in history this month, has been signaling that he would be neither a…