If Xi Jinping's rule of China is so fragile that he feels mortally threatened by independent religious institutions, it's hard to see how any Western nation can trust his...
White House officials on Tuesday sent to Congress an 18-page list of demands they want included in the funding deal that needs to pass by Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown. Surprisingly, the administration is proposing language to lift a spending cap that Congress imposed on the District of Columbia in March when it...
President Trump and the Iraqi government on Tuesday announced that Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian citizen, U.S. permanent resident and Princeton graduate student, was released after being held captive for over 900 days by the terrorist group Khataib Hezbollah in Iraq. Trump said in a Truth Social post that Tsurkov is in the American Embassy in Iraq. Iraqi Prime...
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, rejected charges by two Senate Democrats that Israel is engaged in “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians, ahead of a major Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and increasing violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank. Leiter, in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday, took exception...
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story MAHA report sidesteps chemical, pesticide regs The Trump administration released a new strategy report for how it plans to implement its efforts to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), seeking to make changes to vaccines but sidestepping calls to further regulate pesticides and toxic chemicals....
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) on Tuesday said the Israeli strike on Hamas will limit prospects of returning hostages and future peace in the region. “Well this certainly diminishes the prospects of returning the hostages and particularly those who are still alive, because what Hamas is saying right now is that the United States lured these...
A bipartisan House delegation will visit China later this month, per NBC News. The trip is being organized by Rep. Adam Smith (D-Calif.), who told NBC News the trip is “fairly significant.” Smith is the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee. “It’s part of wanting to try to open up a dialogue between...
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily allowed the Trump administration to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid as the Supreme Court considers the president's emergency appeal. The temporary, administrative stay puts on hold a lower court's ruling directing the administration to spend some $4 billion in funds Congress approved for aid programs worldwide by the end...
A Republic Airways flight was told to abort a landing at Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday “because maintenance crews were inspecting the runway,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “An air traffic controller instructed Republic Airways Flight 4528 to perform a go-around at Reagan Washington National Airport because maintenance crews were inspecting the...
Naomi Osaka's remarks about racism at the U.S. Open sparked a debate about how Americans view racism, with many feeling that people are too quick to accuse others of racism and that the Democrats need to recognize this in order to win elections.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that President Trump was not an FBI informant in the Jeffrey Epstein case, after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) last week suggested he may have been. “I can affirm that is not true," Leavitt said in response to a question about Johnson's comments. "I think the Speaker was referring...
The Department of Health and Human Services's Make America Healthy Again Commission released its strategy aimed at the nation's children on Tuesday afternoon. The highly anticipated report lays out the Trump administration’s planned health strategy around priorities including vaccines, childhood nutrition, water fluoridation and exposure to chemicals. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Tuesday...
Charges against 15 defendants in Michigan were dismissed on Tuesday after a judge determined they did not act unlawfully by signing papers falsifying their status as electors. District Court Judge Kristen D. Simmons said the individuals indicted “believe they were executing their constitutional right to seek redress” after attempting to overturn former President Biden’s 2020...
The White House on Tuesday said President Trump “feels very bad” about the location of Israel’s Tuesday strike in Qatar that targeted Palestinian militant group Hamas’s senior officials in Doha. “Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a sovereign nation and close ally of the United States that is working very hard and greatly taking risks with us...
