President Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump changing marijuana’s classification would be ill-advised. “I think rescheduling marijuana is wrong. The fact is, marijuana is a gateway drug. Most of the people who end up using hard substances start out on marijuana,” Lawler told host Blake Burman on “The Hill.” The president said...
The Pentagon is escalating its preliminary review into Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) over his participation in a video where he and other Democrats told U.S. service members to disobey “illegal orders.” A Pentagon official told The Hill on Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office, along with the Defense Department’s Office of General Counsel, are...
The U.S. military continued its campaign against alleged drug-trafficking boats, blowing up three vessels in the eastern Pacific on Monday and killing eight “narcoterrorists” in total. All three vessels were operated by designated terrorist organizations and were targeted in international waters. It is unclear which terrorist groups the U.S. military was referring to. Three people...
MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Tuesday questioned "what happened" to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after a handful of Senators who caucus with Democrats bucked the party and voted to reopen the government. Seven Democrats and Independent Sen. Angus King (Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, voted with Republicans in the upper chamber Monday to...
Two men were among the thousands of U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War, yet their names were left off the war memorial. Their families are fighting to change that.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy, is running to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in the Empire State’s 12th congressional district. In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Schlossberg said the country “is at a turning point” and in the midst of a cost of living, corruption and constitutional crisis under...
The House on Wednesday is returning to Washington after nearly two months out of session for a vote that could reopen the federal government and end the record-long shutdown. Most Democrats are firmly against the funding package, while Republicans are largely supportive. The bill appears poised to cross the finish line. Here are the key...
The broad language in President Trump’s pardons for dozens of allies who helped challenge his 2020 presidential election loss could hand unexpected beneficiaries a blank check. The president granted unconditional pardons to more than 70 lawyers, aides and so-called “fake electors” for efforts to provide an alternate slate of Electoral College votes in his...
What the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attempted to do with a sledgehammer, Congress succeeded in doing with gridlock and an unwillingness to compromise.
We also found that states that legalized recreational marijuana earliest (for example, in the early 2000s) experience larger decreases in opioid deaths.
The House is set to vote on a bill to end the government shutdown, while Democrats are in a stronger position to respond to Republican redistricting efforts.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Tuesday that “no one really knows” who’s heading up his party in both chambers of Congress as tensions flare among Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown. “Who is running the show now in the Democratic Party, in the Senate, in the House?” Fox News’s Lawrence Jones asked Fetterman on “Fox...
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee slammed a Senate-approved plan to reopen the government that would also pave the way for eight GOP senators to earn significant sums from litigation challenging the search of their phone records related to Jan. 6. Tucked into the GOP proposal, which eight Democratic senators also approved, the...
A proposal to reopen the U.S. government that passed the Senate on Monday contains language that would outlaw the sale of intoxicating hemp products across the nation.
