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The State Department is restarting the processing of visa applications from students and visiting scholars, but is screening for “hostility” toward the United States.

The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to defang and downsize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

As President Trump ponders swift military action in Iran, there were similar expectations that the war in Iraq would be quick and triumphant.

In 2020, the justices ruled 6-3 that gay and transgender workers were shielded from employment discrimination nationwide.

Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said.

The bill was a significant step toward giving the cryptocurrency industry the credibility and legitimacy it has sought, without limitations it has worked to head off.

A Capitol security official briefed senators on enhanced security precautions, and lawmakers in both parties said more funding was needed to protect themselves.

President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.

The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too.