. They advanced with quarterfinal victories Tuesday.

▶ Follow live updates onWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s big bill

would unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance, raising the political stakes for the GOP’s signature domestic priority.Republican leaders in Congress, determined to muscle the sweeping package forward, had little to say after the analysis released Wednesday by. GOP senators spent more than an hour at the White House in what they called a robust afternoon discussion with Trump.

“We’re committed to making a law that will make the lives of the American people better,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota said afterward. He vowed to “get this done one way or another.”But Democrats angling to halt the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, named after the president’s own catchphrase, piled on with relentless opposition.

“In the words of Elon Musk, this bill is a ‘disgusting abomination,’” said Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, reviving

The analysis comes at a crucial moment asNEW YORK (AP) — Final results from a long-running

announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely -- but that’s still good news for the“This experiment is a huge feat in precision,” said Tova Holmes, an experimental physicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who is not part of the collaboration.

The mysterious particles called muons are considered heavier cousins to electrons. They wobble like a top when inside a magnetic field, and scientists are studying that motion to see if it lines up with the foundational rulebook of physics called the Standard Model.Experiments in the 1960s and 1970s seemed to indicate all was well. But tests at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the late 1990s and early 2000s produced something unexpected: the muons weren’t behaving like they should.