House adopts $95 billion budget proposal to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities

By The Associated Press
July 22, 2026 | 5:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — House adopts $95 billion budget proposal to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities.

California couple and their surrogate testify in Texas court as dispute over newborn escalates

By The Associated Press
August 25, 2026 | 7:59 PM

DALLAS (AP) — A California couple in an escalating fight with their surrogate over a newborn with a life-threatening heart defect told a Texas court Tuesday that the child's condition has worsened and they are anguished by attempts to deny them parental rights because they previously wanted an abortion. “He's our child,” Nausheen Gilkar said, wiping away tears on the witness stand. “She's unstable,” Gilkar said of surrogate McKenna West, who was sitting across from her in the Dallas courtroom. “She's trying to take him from us.” The hearing offered the fullest public airing to date of a deepening and high-profile dispute over surrogacy and abortion that has rushed right-to-life groups and GOP officeholders to the side of West, a nurse who flew from Alaska to have the baby on Aug. 12 in Texas, where most abortions are banned.

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