Iran is burning as its people rise up against the Islamic Republic to demand improved living standards. In response, the theocratic regime has clamped down aggressively. The death toll remains unclear, with some reports suggesting that thousands of protesters have been killed. Regardless, the death toll is clearly heavy. Protesters have been chanting one name, […]
I use ChatGPT every single day, and my children know it. When we were abroad recently, I held my phone up to street signs and menus and translated them in real time. We used artificial intelligence to help build our complicated, multi-country itinerary. At home, I use it in our homeschool to optimize schedules, summarize […]
President Donald Trump warned Iran on Jan. 2 that if it moved to crush ongoing protests violently, the United States would respond militarily. These protests are motivated by fury over collapsing living standards. Since Jan. 2, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s regime has only escalated its violent repression. Although he would be wise to do so in […]
The “Make America Healthy Again” movement is a major focus of President Donald Trump‘s second term. As Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the push to reduce the rates of obesity and chronic illness, among other things. Improving the lives of Americans in the present and paving the way for […]
For decades, women have been encouraged to shatter glass ceilings, make history, win world records, and compete on equal footing in arenas once closed off to them. Sports became one of the clearest symbols of that progress after the implementation of Title IX. Female athletes were told that if they worked hard enough, sacrificed enough, […]
The Trump administration has designated three chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, which it says threaten U.S. interests, as terrorist organizations in an attempt to curtail their financial support. The State Department announced on Tuesday that the label was given to the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group founded in Egypt...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Will US strike Iran? All eyes on Washington as Trump mulls options Concerns that the U.S. may strike Iran hit a new peak Tuesday after President Trump pledged that “HELP IS ON ITS WAY” to the...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell could result in increased inflation and interest rates. Speaking to reporters on the call for his company’s fourth-quarter results, Dimon said “anything that chips away” at the independence of the central bank “is probably not a good...
Some House Republicans have joined in criticizing the Department of Justice’s probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, arguing it could undermine the regulator’s independence. Those GOP members join a chorus of Democrats and some Republican senators who have criticized the investigation, arguing it's an abuse of the Justice Department’s authority designed to pressure Powell, who...
The timeline is slipping for a bipartisan group of senators to release a compromise to revive the expired enhanced ObamaCare subsidies, according to one of the lead negotiators. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) told reporters Tuesday that lawmakers are looking at a deadline of the end of January to have a legislative framework ready. Moreno had previously said lawmakers would have text of a bipartisan deal as early as this...
Lindsey Halligan, the loyalist top prosecutor hand-picked by President Trump in the Eastern District of Virginia, told a federal judge Tuesday she's entitled to continue calling herself the U.S. attorney after different judge found she was unlawfully installed to the post. The contention came in sharp-tongued court filings responding to U.S. District Judge David Novak's order last...
GOP Rep. Don Bacon (R) joined House Democrats to introduce legislation seeking to preemptively block President Trump from using military force to acquire Greenland — a prospect the president has declined to rule out amid renewed interest in the Danish territory. The “No Funds for NATO Invasion Act,” introduced Monday, would prohibit the use of...
A new Economist/YouGov poll found that 46 percent of respondents support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with 43 percent opposed to getting rid of the agency. The poll, released Tuesday, found that 35 percent of respondents strongly support eliminating the agency, while 1 in 10 somewhat support such a move. Just over 30 percent...
