Democrats eyeing majorities in the House and Senate are plotting how they will police Supreme Court justices they say are influenced by right-wing, dark money groups.
President Trump said Wednesday he knows it is not easy for the Iranian people to rise against their hardline leaders, but he thinks the Islamic regime will get "weaker by the day" and become vulnerable to overthrow.
Republican strategist Karl Rove said in a Wednesday opinion piece that President Trump’s tariff rhetoric could cost the GOP its majorities in Congress. In the Wall Street Journal piece, Rove said the Trump administration’s “messaging” around trade “is a muddled mess.” “Republicans should hope the president really believes in reciprocity—the policy that if countries lower...
President Trump will hold a press conference on Friday at the White House alongside Elon Musk, who is departing his role as a special government employee. "This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way. Elon is terrific! See you tomorrow at the White...
Two additional Democrats, Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), on Thursday launched their bids for the top Democratic spot on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Mfume, in a letter announcing his candidacy, stated he was "prepared to meet that moment; as my lifelong friend, successor, and predecessor Elijah Cummings did when he...
A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch Glacier, located above Blatten, collapsed, causing a gigantic landslide,” the government of the canton of Valais said in a Thursday press release translated from French. “At the bottom of the valley, a huge deposit of ice...
Sens. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) announced Thursday they will hold a hearing next month on what they’re calling President Biden’s “cognitive decline while in office and the mainstream media’s subsequent coverup.” It will be the first full congressional committee hearing on the topic. “For four years, when the American people saw Joe...
Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare — A key anti-abortion group is pressuring a group of Senate Republicans to back a measure aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood. {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Group pressures GOP senators to defund Planned Parenthood The House-passed bill to advance President Trump’s agenda includes...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Conservatives ramp up DOGE push There’s been a growing chorus of complaints made by fiscal hawks in Congress and prominent conservatives outside Capitol Hill in the days since the House’s passage of President Trump’s “one big,...
President Trump could have his political fortunes buoyed by two developments that are not of his own choosing. Within hours on Wednesday night, Elon Musk announced he was departing from his political role, and the Court of International Trade blocked many of the tariffs that Trump had sought to impose in early April. On the...
Comedian Nathan Fielder took a swing at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday over a statement in which the agency pushed back on claims from his HBO show, “The Rehearsal.” During a recent episode of “The Rehearsal,” Fielder points to communication issues between an aircraft’s captain and first officer as appearing “to be the...
🔵 Plus: Democratic generational battle takes shape {beacon} THE WHITE HOUSE ON THURSDAY raged against two federal courts that blocked most of President Trump’s tariffs, urging the Supreme Court to intervene and promising to overturn a decision the administration described as “judicial overreach.” Press secretary Karoline Leavitt read from a lengthy opening statement at...
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat is blasting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his decision this week to appoint a new director of the Pentagon’s operational test enterprise and rapidly cut its staff by more than half. Hegseth said his directed reorganization, which would reduce the staff, budget and resources at the Office of...
The New York Times announced Thursday it would partner with Amazon and allow the company to use its content as part of its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The multiyear licensing agreement will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences and "broadens the companies' existing relationship, and will bring additional value to...
