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How Trump is righting the economic ship after the SS Biden disaster

In just one year, the administration’s economic strategy has been astonishingly successful and completely course-corrected after Biden and the radical left's failures.

Pentagon allegedly used Claude AI in raid to capture Nicolas Maduro

The U.S. military reportedly used Anthropic's AI tool Claude in its operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Obama pushes back on White House rhetoric, ape video: Decorum has ‘been lost’

Former President Obama argued in an interview published Saturday that American politics has become a “clown show” under the second Trump administration, suggesting that many Americans dislike the rhetoric coming out of the White House in recent months. Obama made the comparison while addressing a controversial video posted on President Trump’s Truth Social account earlier...

Crowded California governor’s race creates opening for Republicans

The crowded field of Democratic candidates running for governor in California could give Republicans a rare opening in the deep blue stronghold. More than a half-dozen Democrats seen as serious contenders are competing in the Golden State’s June 2 primary, where all candidates will appear on the same ballot and the top two vote-getters will...

Trump lambasts Maher rhetoric as ‘very boring, anti-Trump’

President Trump on Saturday lashed out at comedian Bill Maher over his criticism of the commander in chief from the day before, with the president referring back to his dinner with Maher at the White House last year. The president in a lengthy Truth Social post praised how Maher was "a nice guy" who was...

Trump’s bond buy

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Trump orders $200 billion mortgage bond purchase President Trump said Thursday he ordered the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds with the goal of easing housing costs through lower interest rates. © AP In a...

‘Vast wealth Trump imagines’ from Venezuelan oil doesn’t exist: Krugman

Economist Paul Krugman on Wednesday said there's no wealth to be gained after President Trump said that U.S. oil companies would take control of Venezuela's oil production following the ousting of the country's president, Nicolás Maduro. "Donald Trump’s Venezuela venture is a very different story," Krugman wrote on his Substack. "During his triumphalist press conference after the...

Walz puts Minnesota National Guard on alert amid protests over ICE shooting

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) authorized his state’s National Guard to be “staged and ready” Thursday, amid protests after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis. Citing “potential capacity concerns from local leaders” in response to demonstrations against the shooting and the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the city,...

Trump orders withdrawal from 1992 climate treaty

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump orders withdrawal from 1992 climate treaty The U.S. is exiting a landmark 1992 climate treaty, President Trump announced this week. © AP Photo/Alex Brandon Trump said in a presidential memorandum that the U.S. would pull out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

Here are the 17 Republicans who voted for the ObamaCare subsidies bill

More than a dozen House Republicans joined Democrats in voting for a three-year extension of just-lapsed ObamaCare tax subsidies Thursday. The 17 GOP members voting in favor marked an uptick in support for the extension compared with the previous day, when nine Republicans supported a procedural vote to advance the bill — a vote seen...

Crypto ramps up Senate lobbying ahead of key votes

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Crypto ramps up Senate lobbying ahead of key votes The cryptocurrency industry is ramping up efforts to get market structure legislation past a key hurdle, as two Senate committees are prepared to vote on the bill next week. © Greg Nash Both the Senate Banking and Senate Agriculture...

House passes extension of ObamaCare subsidies as moderates seek compromise

The House on Thursday passed legislation to revive and extend expired ObamaCare tax credits in a bipartisan vote that is boosting hopes of centrist Republicans for a bipartisan deal to revive the tax credits. The tally, 230 to 196, highlighted the tenuous grip Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has over his restive GOP conference. Seventeen centrist Republicans crossed the aisle...

Federal prosecutor disqualified in Letitia James investigation

A federal judge on Thursday disqualified the top federal prosecutor in upstate New York and blocked subpoenas his office issued to state Attorney General Letitia James (D). John Sarcone III's service as acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York "was and is unlawful" because the Justice Department maneuvered to keep him in...

GSA drops hotel accused of refusing to accommodate ICE from approved sites list

A Minnesota hotel accused by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of refusing service to federal immigration officers will no longer participate in a government program that offers federal employees and military officers discounted room rates, according to the General Services Administration. The agency said it has removed the independently operated hotel, once part of...

Bondi warns Minneapolis protesters not to cross ‘red line’

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a warning to Minnesotans protesting the federal immigration crackdown in the state, telling them not to “cross that red line.” "MINNESOTA: Peacefully protesting is a sacred American right protected by the First Amendment," Bondi wrote in a post on the social media platform X. "Obstructing, impeding, or attacking federal law...

Google, chatbot start-up to settle teen suicide, self-harm lawsuits

Google and Character.AI plan to settle several lawsuits with families alleging that their products drove their children to self-harm or suicide, according to recent court documents.  The companies have reached settlement agreements “in principle” in five cases, they said in filings Tuesday and Wednesday. That includes lawsuits brought by the families of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III and 13-year-old Juliana Peralta,...

Trump administration finalizes plan to roll back federal environmental guidelines under bedrock law

The Trump administration this week finalized an effort to ax federal environmental rules governing how the U.S. builds infrastructure projects. In a final rule published Thursday, the administration formally adopted its earlier effort to rescind White House regulations related to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA is one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. It requires the federal...

Warren: ‘No indication’ woman shot by ICE was protester

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pushed back on the Trump administration’s claims about the woman who was fatally shot Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. “There’s no indication she’s a protester, there’s nothing that at least you can see on the video, and therefore nothing that the officers on the ground could see...

Watch live: White House holds briefing in wake of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis

Vice President Vance and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Thursday afternoon, a day after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis. The Trump administration has sought to justify the deadly shooting as an act of self-defense. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday...

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