A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that certain evidence linked to an ally of former FBI Director James Comey is off limits to the Justice Department.
A federal judge has rejected a request from the Trump administration to toss a lawsuit challenging the detention of migrants at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay.
The National Park Service in 2026 will offer free admission to U.S. residents on June 14 — or Flag Day, which also happens to be President Trump's birthday. But the Interior Department, which oversees the park service, also quietly removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth — June 19 — from its list of...
President Trump on Saturday awarded medals to the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, while hailing the renovations underway at the famed Washington arts destination months after he announced an overhaul of the center and named himself its board chair. “We are making something really special,” Trump said in the Oval Office, according to a...
President Trump announced that South Korea will construct its nuclear-powered submarine in Philadelphia shipyards as a part of the new trade deal between the two countries. “South Korea will be building its Nuclear Powered Submarine in the Philadelphia Shipyards, right here in the good ol’ U.S.A. Shipbuilding in our Country will soon be making a...
The Senate voted 50 to 46 on Wednesday to eliminate President Trump’s authority to impose steep tariffs on Canada, something he exercised again in recent days by ramping up tariffs on the country by another 10 percent because of a television ad that criticized his policies. Four Republicans voted with Democrats to repeal Trump’s tariffs...
The White House will pay members of the military on Friday, averting a missed paycheck for troops as the government shutdown drags on by tapping into three separate funding sources. An official with the Office and Management and Budget (OMB) confirmed to The Hill that the administration will cover $5.3 billion in military pay in...
The Trump administration is apparently seeking to study whether there are any health impacts of offshore wind, an energy source that has been the subject of the president’s ire. Bloomberg News reported this week that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look into...
Miles Taylor, who was a deputy chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during the first Trump administration, went after President Trump as the government shutdown endangers the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits this weekend. “I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president...
New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) is leading former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 10 points in the New York City race to succeed outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, according to a new poll. A Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters released on Wednesday shows Mamdani in first place at 43 percent, followed by Cuomo with...
Martin Kulldorff, chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in an interview Thursday he believes vaccine mandates for schools are "not necessary." In an interview with Politico, the ACIP's influence on school vaccine policy was noted and Kulldorff was asked how he wanted...
Unless something changes dramatically in the next couple days, more than 40 million Americans are preparing to have federal food assistance cut off starting Saturday.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is giving remarks Wednesday afternoon after the nation’s central bank cut interest rates for the second time this year. The committee responsible for setting borrowing costs cut the baseline interest rate to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent, a reduction of 0.25 percentage points. Powell faced months of pressure from President Trump to lower...
