A federal judge on Friday paused the Trump administration's $10 billion social safety net funding freeze, temporarily restoring grants to five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had said earlier in the week that the freeze — impacting child care and family assistance funding in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New...
President Trump on Friday night called on credit card companies to cap interest rates at 10 percent. “Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe...
The Kennedy Center on Friday confirmed the Washington National Opera (WNO) will leave the renowned venue. “After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with the WNO due to a financially challenging relationship,” a Kennedy Center spokesperson told NewsNation. “We believe this represents the best path forward for both organizations and...
Minnesota, California, New York, Colorado and Illinois won a temporary victory Friday in a lawsuit over a federal funding freeze related to fraud concerns.
California Rep. Eric Swalwell (D) and former Rep. Katie Porter (D) are the two leading Democratic candidates for governor of the Golden State, according to a new poll. The new survey from Emerson College Polling and Inside California Politics found Swalwell, who entered the race only recently, neck and neck with Porter among Democrats in...
The redistricting wars show no signs of waning as several more states move toward rewriting their congressional lines. Florida, Indiana and Virginia are among the states taking steps to redraw their maps ahead of the 2026 midterms, the latest phase in an ongoing redistricting battle across the country. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of covering up lethal strikes carried out on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and placing the lives of U.S. service members at risk. "You know, when the president chooses a Fox News commentator to run the most important, most complicated, most...
A dozen former leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday slammed the Trump administration over its changes to vaccine policy, calling these changes a threat to public safety. “We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions about vaccine safety and proposals that would undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been rocked by recent changes to several leadership roles while it has grappled with how to handle new vaccine guidance. The agency has changed — five times this year — its director for The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and has seen another recent leadership...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing heat over a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, said in 2016 that he believed in “consequences for abject war crimes.” “I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes. If you're doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth in hot water again for endangering troops with Signal messages A highly critical inspector general report found Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized troop safety and violated department policy by using the Signal app on his...
Senate Democrats, along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), on Wednesday filed a war powers resolution to prevent the United States from using the U.S. armed forces from engaging in hostilities with Venezuela without congressional approval. The resolution, filed by Paul and Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.),...
President Trump’s pick to lead NASA, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, refused on Wednesday to say if Elon Musk was in the room when Trump first offered him the job. Isaacman — who was renominated last month after Trump pulled the nomination in May — appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Bipartisan Obamacare deal remains out-of-reach in Senate hearing The clock is ticking on Congress to extend expiring ObamaCare enhanced subsidies. Senators in both parties Wednesday acknowledged the need for a bipartisan deal; it just doesn’t seem like they...
A vomiting disorder linked to frequent marijuana use is on the rise, prompting global health officials to allow researchers to track the condition and study it. Dubbed on social media as "scromiting," short for screaming and vomiting, cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) cases saw a jump in emergency department visits between 2016 and 2022, according to...
President Trump defended his decision to pardon Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) when asked whether the move would help the Democratic congressman get reelected in next year's midterms. “It didn’t matter,” Trump told The Hill during an Oval Office event on Wednesday. “He was a respected person. He was treated very badly because he said that...
The Tennessee special election is reviving a long-simmering debate between the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party over what kind of candidates to nominate. Democrat Aftyn Behn fell short of flipping the seat in the deep-red 7th Congressional District on Tuesday night after running largely on the issue of affordability. She was attacked...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Republicans have “a real problem” after the party eked out a narrow victory in a ruby red Tennessee district in Tuesday’s special election. “I'm always concerned, to be honest,” Burchett told CNN’s Manu Raju when asked about the race, which was more competitive than in recent years. “We got a...
