Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding as leaders work to enact many of his campaign promises. House committees have been laboring for months to draft the legislation, which Republicans have labeled “THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,’’ a nod to Trump himself. Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing to approve the package and send it to the Senate by Memorial Day.

U.S. health regulators announced an effort Tuesday to phase out ingestible fluoride supplements sometimes used to strengthen children’s teeth, opening a new front in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort against a mainstay of dental care. The Food and Drug Administration said it will conduct a scientific review of the children’s products by late October with the aim of removing them from the market. Formally withdrawing medical products requires a lengthy rulemaking process that can take years. Instead, the FDA will ask manufacturers to voluntarily pull their products, according to an administration official.

U.S. officials unveiled an indictment Tuesday against two alleged Mexican drug cartel leaders on narco-terrorism charges. The indictment comes after the Trump administration in February designated the Sinaloa Cartel and seven other Latin American crime organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” upping its pressure on cartels operating in the U.S. and on anyone aiding them. President Donald Trump called for the designation in an executive order on Jan. 20, the day he took office in his second term. The “foreign terrorist organization” label is unusual because it deploys a terrorist designation normally reserved for groups like al-Qaida or the Islamic State group that use violence for political ends — not for money-focused crime rings such as the Latin American cartels.

Texas confirmed eight more measles cases over the span of four days, continuing a short streak of shrinking increases in a state that has been dealing with a large outbreak for nearly four months. The U.S. surpassed 1,000 measles cases Friday, and Texas still accounts for the vast majority of cases in an outbreak that also spread measles to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas.Two unvaccinated elementary school-aged children died from measles-related illnesses in the epicenter in West Texas, and an adult in New Mexico who was not vaccinated died of a measles-related illness. Other states with active outbreaks — which the CDC defines as three or more related cases — include Indiana, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

In a historic event, US President Donald Trump met on Wednesday morning with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the first meeting between a US and Syrian president in 25 years. The meeting took place in Saudi Arabia, where Trump is finishing his visit before heading to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates as part of his trip to the Middle East. Trump agreed to meet with Shaara after being pressured “to say hello” to him by the Saudi Crown Prince and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Sharaa is in Riyadh for a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The minutes, which lasted for about 33 minutes, took place a day after Trump made a surprise announcement on Tuesday evening that he was lifting all sanctions on Syria.

The Houthis launched a ballistic missile at Israel on Wednesday morning, triggering sirens in central Israel,  the Jerusalem area, and the Dead Sea area. The missile was intercepted outside Israel by air defense systems. The attack was the third Houthi missile launch at Israel in 24 hours. Following the attack, the IDF spokesperson in Arabic Avichay Adraee repeated a warning he previously issued on Sunday for Yemenis to evacuate three seaports. “An important second warning to all those present in the seaports controlled by the terrorist Houthi regime, the Ras Isa, Hodeidah, and Al-Salif ports,” he wrote.

POTUS: “Iran was broke because I placed secondary sanctions… They didn’t have money for Hamas, they didn’t have money for Hezbollah… When Biden came in, he took off the sanctions and he let them get very rich… Biden freed them up from what I did.”

POTUS: “You see Saudi Arabia and you see UAE and you see Qatar and they have these brand new Boeing 747s — and you see ours next to it…We’re the United States of America. I believe we should have the most impressive plane.”

Sean Hannity: This is an amazing week so far. You get a deal with China. India and Pakistan. You slashed prescription drug prices. The last American hostage has been released. POTUS: “I’ve been busy but I’ve enjoyed it because we’re getting things accomplished.”

Florida Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds visited Lubavitch Educational Center on Monday and met with fifty rabbis, community activists, and representatives of the South Florida Jewish community and its local Jewish schools. The congressman was joined by his wife, Erika Donalds, who works for the US Secretary of Education, Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, and community activist Barbara Feingold. “As the largest Jewish school in the US outside New York, Congressman Donalds’s visit here is a powerful affirmation of the shared values that bind our community to his vision for Florida’s future,” said Rabbi Benjy Korf, LEC’s head of school.