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After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.(Image credit: Michael Zamora)

Kalshi says Santos did not cooperate with its investigation into bets he placed on his own attendance at the State of the Union. The company also fined the disgraced congressman more than $71,000.(Image credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

President Trump is touting a new deal for the U.S. to access Venezuelan oil fields. Trump says it's a major boon for the American people, but it's unclear when they'll see the benefits.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin America Energy Program at Rice University, about President Trump's claims of a Venezuelan oil agreement.

The House returns Monday for one week before heading back home. At the top of the agenda is a bill to extend government funding past the midterm elections.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.(Image credit: Keito Newman/The Canadian Press)

Real economic sanctions on Canada and economic threats to countries trading with Iran may work against Republicans in the midterm elections.

While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.(Image credit: ALAMIN_TUBE)

His family in Afghanistan had received threats from the Taliban because of the work performed by his brothers in support of the U.S. military.(Image credit: Sam Mednick)

President Trump signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America to provoke Canadian leaders. Meanwhile, the new Fed chair says inflation continues to be a problem.

The WNBA's popularity has risen in recent years, but so have threats and abuse directed at its players. One team is taking a novel approach to this, by partnering with national security specialists.(Image credit: Michael Reaves)

President Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country's untapped oil reserves, at cost.(Image credit: Mark Schiefelbein)

President Trump has signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America."

Limited public discussion of the trust fund's shortfall has experts worried that most Americans don't fully understand the problems Social Security faces — let alone be able to weigh in on solutions.(Image credit: Bryan Dozier)

As Election Day draws nearer, Democrats are preparing for a range of scenarios, intent on avoiding what they see as the failure of imagination that kept lawmakers from anticipating the Jan. 6 attack.(Image credit: Justin Sullivan)

New Trump-led proposals to change how federal grants are decided could spell trouble for blue cities and states, The Indicator reports.

King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday.(Image credit: Francisco Seco)

President Trump is under pressure internationally and domestically as the year's primary elections near an end.

NPR's A Martínez asks Chris Whipple, the Vanity Fair writer who spent time inside the Trump administration, why the president is experiencing increasing resistance to his plans.