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AQABA, Jordan — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that American officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that spearheaded the overthrow of President Bashar Assad’s government but is designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and others. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Blinken is the first U.S. official to…

Michael Haller, a professor and chief of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Florida, has experience in working around threats to gender-affirming health care. He has been advocating for trans youth as Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people under 18 and its new restrictions for adults makes its way through litigation. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]…

SALT LAKE CITY — With Mitt Romney set to exit the U.S. Senate, Washington will be without one of its strongest conservative critics of Donald Trump when the president retakes the White House in the new year. The retiring senator will reflect on his two-decade political career, which included the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a…

Five days before Joe Biden was sworn in as President and effectively stopped federal executions, the Trump Administration executed its 13th federal inmate, Dustin Higgs. Higgs was sentenced to die by lethal injection for kidnapping and ordering the killings of three women in Maryland in 1996. Before Donald Trump’s first term, there hadn’t been a…

(WASHINGTON) — The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot even though the bureau did prepare for the possibility of violence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a watchdog report Thursday. It also said no undercover FBI employees were present that day and none of the bureau’s informants was authorized…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The commutations announced Thursday are for…

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. President-elect Donald Trump tells TIME in his Person of the Year interview that he may reject spending bills sent to him from Congress if they do not match the cuts prescribed by…

President-elect Donald Trump reacted Thursday morning to being named TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year  and championed the potential for America’s economic growth in his second term. Trump said that coming into office in January he is better prepared in understanding how to staff his administration and utilize his power. “’Now we have experience we…

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s picking Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat to head the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides independent news reporting around the world. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Lake, an immigration hard-liner, was a television…

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. At times, the conversation sounded an awful lot like hostages recounting their monthslong trauma. Their opinions were unlikely to be heeded, and rarely solicited. There was little they could do to change…