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The report, by a panel of leading researchers, raises questions about the administration's legal justification for looser pollution controls.

The guidelines, from California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii, mirror those of major medical organizations. They were issued a day before an advisory panel was set to meet to review potential changes to federal recommendations.

The annual festival, popular for its take-a-chance-priced tickets, opened with a show featuring work by Jamar Roberts, the tap dancer Dario Natarelli and Akram Khan.

As part of a unit known as the Bloody 100th, he flew 25 harrowing missions in his B-17 bomber over German-held territory during World War II.

The senator, Markwayne Mullin, quickly backtracked after pressing the now former director, Susan Monarez, on an exchange with the health secretary.

In different ways, the reputations of the royal family, the British government and President Trump have each been tarnished by the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Dr. Susan Monarez told senators at a committee hearing on Wednesday that the health secretary had hurled false and hurtful accusations about the nation's health agency.

The president's voters wanted to have it both ways. Reality said no.

There has been a lot of talk from Trump administration officials about punishing speech. Here is what the law says.

Brad Raffensperger, the two-term Republican secretary of state, joins a primary that also includes the state's lieutenant governor and attorney general.