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The Trump administration jumped in on a viral TikTok trend on Tuesday, posting a video of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dancing with rapper Nicki Minaj to promote new investment accounts for children, known as Trump accounts. The trend features two people standing back-to-back and lip-syncing to a mashup of Minaj’s 2012 hit “Beez in the...

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran has resigned as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, the White House confirmed on Tuesday. Miran had been on unpaid leave from the White House since last fall, when President Trump nominated him to fill the remaining four months of a vacant Fed board term that expired on Jan....

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) checked himself into the hospital on Monday evening for flu-like symptoms, his office confirmed Tuesday. A spokesperson for McConnell’s office said the 83-year-old senator began experiencing symptoms this weekend and went to a local hospital “out of an abundance of caution.” “His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Bill Gates needs to answer Epstein claims, ex-wife says Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, said Tuesday that he needs to answer for the allegations made against him in a newly released...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday he gave President Trump a list of major drug "kingpins" that both countries should work on arresting around the world.  "Their capital is outside Colombia, and they must be pursued jointly through coordinated intelligence work across many sectors of the world,” Petro told reporters during a press conference at...

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D) signaled Tuesday to reporters that passing a new set of state congressional lines before November, seen as a key priority for Democrats, is likely doomed.  “We are not prioritizing that piece of legislation,” Ferguson told reporters, according to The Baltimore Sun. “We don't have a habit in the Senate of moving forward things...

President Trump on Tuesday said that it’s “really time” for the country to move on from Jeffrey Epstein following the release of nearly 3 million more documents by the Justice Department late last week. “I think it’s really time for the country to get on to something else,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office....

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story French authorities raid X's offices The French offices of Elon Musk’s X were raided Tuesday amid an investigation into the social platform, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. © Noah Berger, Associated Press The prosecutor’s office said in a post on X that its cybercrime unit had executed a search warrant at...

A federal judge seems skeptical of the Pentagon’s bid to censure Sen. Mark Kelly and lower his retirement rank in the wake of a video in which the Arizona senator and other Democrats called on service members to reject unlawful orders.   U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, heard arguments Tuesday in Kelly’s lawsuit seeking to block the effort led by Defense Secretary Pete...

The Senate Democratic primary in Texas has taken an ugly turn, with the increased infighting threatening to complicate the party’s chances of flipping the seat in November. The most notable incident came this week when former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), the Democratic nominee for Senate last cycle, ripped state Rep. James Talarico (D) for allegedly...

President Trump responded Tuesday to news of the deposition dates for former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of a House investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, calling it “a shame.”  “I think it’s a shame to be honest. I always liked him. Her? Yeah. She’s a very...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced Tuesday that his state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the second state to do so since the U.S.’s withdrawal from the organization became official last month. Officials said Illinois’s participation means the state will now be “directly connected to timely...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday urged President Trump to put more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting that the current U.S. strategy to deter attacks on Ukraine is “not working.” “Clearly the pressure we’re applying to Putin to come to the peace table and stop massive attacks against Ukraine is not working,” Graham...

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) on Tuesday published a position statement recommending that surgeons delay "gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery" until a patient is 19 years old, drawing praise from the Trump administration for "protecting children from harmful sex-rejecting procedures." The ASPS, which represents more than 11,000 physicians globally, released its position...