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NPR's A Martinez asks Republican strategist Brendan Buck about GOP leadership efforts to move a massive tax cut and spending package through the House and to the president's desk.

House Republicans cleared a final procedural hurdle early Thursday and are now one vote away from passing President Trump's sweeping tax cut and spending bill before a self-imposed July 4 deadline.

Latest on the GOP megabill now before the House, forecasters say tax cut and spending bill would add trillions to U.S. debt, Sean Combs found guilty on 2 counts but acquitted on most serious charges.

NPR speaks with Palestinian American author and poet Hala Alyan {HAHL-uh ahl-YAHN} about her new memoir, "I'll Tell You When I'm Home," in which she shares the experience of motherhood via surrogacy.

Iran's government is detaining anyone they believe gathered and shared intelligence with Israel used to strike key military sites and kill top generals and nuclear scientists during last month's war.

Canadians on Campobello Island can't get to the rest of their country without going through the U.S. It's been that way for decades. New political tensions have some in the small community worried.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Linda Jones, co-founder of Alabama Childhood Food Solutions, about the potential impact of President Trump's tax and spending bill on her food bank and community.

In March, the Supreme Court upheld Biden-era restrictions on build-it-yourself gun kits. But gun rights groups are still hoping the regulation will be swept away.

Budget analysts say the GOP tax cut and spending bill would add trillions to the government's debt over the next 10 years. Interest on the debt already costs taxpayers about $1 trillion per year.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Penn., about the budget and tax reconciliation process in the House and how Democrats might capitalize on it.

The Trump administration says it plans to appeal a federal court ruling blocking the president's attempt to stop asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying Trump had overstepped his authority.

Sean Combs was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, but on the more serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking the jury found him not guilty.