President Donald Trump has a constitutional obligation to check his ego at the door when it comes to military readiness. Increasingly, he is failing to do so, and it is having deleterious consequences for the Navy. Trump reacted petulantly to concerns about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. Operating in the Arabian Sea, […]
Prosecutors said on Monday that a man accused of firing gunshots at a local news station in California had notes critical of the Trump administration in his car and a reminder to “Do the Next Scary Thing” on his fridge. According to an updated criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill Monday that will require transgender Texas residents to use bathrooms in certain public spaces according to their sex assigned at birth. The law, passed by the Texas House via a 86-45 vote on Aug. 28, applies to government-owned buildings, including public schools and universities. It includes restrooms,...
The Army has identified the four soldiers who were killed in a helicopter crash near a Washington state base last Wednesday. The deceased soldiers are chief warrant officers Andrew Cully, 35, and Andrew Kraus, 39, and sergeants Donavon Scott, 24, and Jadalyn Good, 23, Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) said in a release. The four,...
President Trump on Monday gave personal suggestions on how and when parents should have children receive certain vaccines, offering advice that he said was based on his own feelings during a press event that claimed links between Tylenol, vaccinations and autism. “We want no mercury in the vaccine. We want no aluminum in the vaccine. The MMR...
President Trump on Monday signed an order designating the anti-fascist movement antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, following through on a pledge in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk to crack down on left-wing groups. The order designates antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” It gives government agencies a broad mandate to investigate any...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Supreme Court to weigh protections for agencies The Supreme Court agreed Monday to formally consider overruling its 90-year-old precedent that enables Congress to provide certain agencies with a degree of independence from the White House, a major test of...
Turning Point USA will continue the college tour its late founder Charlie Kirk began, with conservative figures set to appear on campuses across the country. The tour will re-start Monday at the University of Minnesota, the organization announced on Monday. Conservative commentator Michael Knowles will host the event. Kirk, 31, was fatally shot on Sept....
President Trump is growing more brazen in his calls to prosecute his political rivals, turning up the public pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi and others in the Justice Department to go after his opponents. Trump has in recent days ousted a U.S. attorney who would not bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia...
Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has had his share of battles with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over the years, but on Monday he said Cruz “got it right” when the Texas senator said last week that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr’s pressure on ABC to suspend late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel was...
The Trump administration is proposing to narrow the scope of safety reviews of chemicals that are already out on the market, it said Monday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in a proposed rule that when it assesses the safety of existing chemicals it would take a narrower approach. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin in a...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr accused Democrats of “distortion” regarding the agency’s role in Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from ABC. “The reality is, there’s a lot of Democrats out there that are engaged in a campaign of projection and distortion. And distortion is they’re completely misrepresenting the work of the FCC and what we’ve...
