Nearly 100 House Democrats are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to restore tens of millions of dollars in federal family planning grants to more than a dozen organizations that have been frozen for more than two months. In a letter to Kennedy sent Friday and seen first by The Hill,...
The National Park Service said Friday it would temporarily close the park at the center of Washington’s historic LGBTQ neighborhood ahead of the city’s annual Pride weekend, moving forward with plans that local officials believed had been scrapped. The temporary closure of Dupont Circle Park came at the request of the U.S. Park Police (USPP),...
President Trump on Friday hailed Senate Republican committee chairmen for reaching a deal with Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) on auctioning of government-owned spectrum. Rounds and Fischer had held up Trump’s big, beautiful bill because they feared that the federal sale of spectrum to the private sector would deprive the Defense Department...
Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide made history last month by climbing to their highest seasonal peak available in historical records, a team of researchers reported. For the first time ever, these levels surpassed 430 parts per million (ppm) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which is considered the...
Two senior House Democrats are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi for the timeline of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) declassification and release of the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein’s files after tech billionaire Elon Musk accused President Trump of being named in the documents. Musk, amid a heated, public feud with Trump that...
Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said it was "deeply disturbing" that a Sikh delivered a prayer in the House chamber on Friday — after apparently mistaking him for a Muslim man. The since-deleted post Friday morning sparked immediate bipartisan criticism. “It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives...
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that he could be “on the hook” for hundreds of millions of dollars for having accepted a luxury jet from the Qatari government. In a letter sent Wednesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued that Hegseth’s formal acceptance of the Boeing 747 jetliner...
The White House on Friday was looking to turn the page on the blowup between President Trump and Elon Musk, shutting down talk of a potential call for the two men to reconcile and instead putting the focus on Trump’s agenda. Officials close to the White House did not rule out the possibility of the...
The House of Representatives has passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a comprehensive package of conservative reforms that includes tax cuts, spending reduction, border and national security investment, and the Senate now holds America's economic future in its hands to pass it to the president's desk.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to resume gutting the Education Department after a lower court judge blocked the efforts. Trump campaigned on abolishing the department, and his administration since taking office has looked to gut its workforce and operations. U.S. District Court Myong Joun last month blocked the...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk offered a small peace signal late Thursday after an all-out public feud war broke out with President Trump. It came in the form of a reply to a post on social platform X by Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman, an ally of both men who has sought to cool tensions on the right on various issues before....
