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Scenes from the capital following a tense week in America.

Senate Republicans are grappling with whether to swallow the cuts to Medicaid and clean energy incentives that are baked into House Republicans’ reconciliation package, which would effectively dismantle key parts of the last two Democratic presidents’ policy legacies.

Records show how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.