Just one day after opening the Seine River to swimming for the first time in more than a century, French officials shut down the river due to concerns about pollution following heavy rainfall. Swimming in the Seine has largely been illegal since 1923 due to pollution and other safety risks. The river was opened for...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday presented President Trump with a letter nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize after Trump pushed for a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Netanyahu visited the White House on Monday, marking the first face-to-face meeting with Trump since the president ordered U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, a decision made in coordination...
President Trump is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for White House talks on Monday. The two leaders were expected to discuss the recent military strikes against Iran and a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. It is Trump's third face-to-face encounter with Netanyahu since returning to office for a second turn in January. Watch...
Fox News host Will Cain is the latest media figure on the right to be disappointed by a Trump administration memo debunking several widely circulated conspiracy theories about the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m looking at this memo. It says there’s no client list. Well, I don’t know what that means,” Cain said. “There’s no...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump slaps 25 percent tariffs on Japan, South Korea President Trump announced Monday his administration would impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from South Korea and Japan beginning Aug. 1 as part of a batch...
A federal judge on Monday granted Planned Parenthood’s request to temporarily halt Medicaid funding cuts to the group’s health centers under a provision of Republicans’ new tax and spending package. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling marks the first known instance of a federal judge limiting enforcement of any part of the “big, beautiful” bill, which President Trump...
Right-wing influencers who have long promoted conspiracy theories about convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are turning their ire on the Trump administration over a new Department of Justice memo seeking to debunk those theories. The memo released Monday said there was no evidence Epstein kept a "client list," nor that he sought to blackmail powerful...
President Trump signed his sweeping tax cut and spending package known as the "big, beautiful bill" into law during a Fourth of July celebration on Friday. The measure boosts defense and border wall funding and makes Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, offsetting some of those costs with deep cuts to Medicaid, food assistance programs, student...
AUSTIN, Texas — Local, state and federal officials are all pointing fingers in the wake of the deadly Texas flooding, but one thing is certain: The warnings weren't heard by the people who needed them. After the catastrophic Independence Day floods that killed at least 90 across Central Texas, state and county officials told reporters...
The weekend’s fatal floods in Texas have sparked immediate clashes in Congress over the federal government's role in preventing, or at least minimizing, the human toll of natural disasters. On one side are Democrats pointing to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) as a potential reason the flood victims were not...
A group of medical organizations is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other health leaders in the Trump administration over the decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccines to healthy children and pregnant women. The lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts and alleges the removal of healthy children and pregnant women from the recommendation to...
The artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic laid out a "targeted" framework on Monday, proposing a series of transparency rules for the development of frontier AI models. The framework seeks to establish “clear disclosure requirements for safety practices” while remaining “lightweight and flexible,” the company underscored in a news release. “AI is advancing rapidly,” it wrote....
President Trump rallied in defense of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial in Brazil's Supreme Court on charges that he plotted a coup in 2022 after losing the election to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “I’ll be watching the WITCH HUNT of Jair Bolsonaro, his family, and thousands of his supporters,...
The Trump administration warned Monday that the risk of blackouts could be 100 times greater by the end of the decade, as the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) and the push to reshore manufacturing strain the electrical grid. In a new report, the Department of Energy noted that 104 gigawatts of power capacity are set...
