The Justice Department's antitrust division was directed to pause all cooperation with Canada amid the escalating U.S.-Canada trade war, according to a report.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) announced Monday that he will step out of the top Democratic seat on the powerful Oversight and Government Reform Committee, citing the return of the esophagus cancer he’s been battling since late last year. Connolly said he will also be leaving Congress at the end of the term, his ninth serving...
Two Democratic board members at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) sued President Trump on Monday for firing them. The lawsuit marks the latest challenge to Trump’s terminations of independent agency leaders across the federal bureaucracy, testing the bounds of presidential power. Earlier this month, Trump fired Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka, the two Democrats on NCUA’s...
President Trump shared his thoughts on how his two terms as president have differed, saying in a new interview with The Atlantic that this time around he's leading "the country and the world." “The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” Trump...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday thanked North Korea for deploying troops to aid in the Kremlin’s recent military operation against Ukraine. "Our North Korean friends’ move was guided by a sense of solidarity, justice and genuine comradery," Putin said in a statement, reported by the state-run news organization TASS. "We highly appreciate this and...
Trump has set the stage for American families to become sicker, poorer and less safe while destroying the public health and disaster response programs that could help them.
President Trump tore into a number of leading news organizations over polling conducted in recent days showing his favorability with voters dipping. "These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD," Trump wrote, mentioning polling from The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC and Fox News in a post on his Truth Social website. "They...
President Trump is kicking off a media blitz this week to mark the first 100 days of his second term in the White House. Trump is expected to take a victory lap with a speech Tuesday in Michigan, touting his administration’s work on the southern border and inflation in the battleground state he flipped red...
More Americans are now critical of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration than were earlier this year, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. When asked if they “approve or disapprove of the way Elon Musk is handling his job in the Trump administration,” 57 percent said they disapproved "somewhat" or "strongly." That...
Former Vice President Harris will jab at President Trump in the keynote address at the Emerge gala on Wednesday, marking her first public remarks since leaving office in January, a source told The Hill. In her remarks, the former vice president, who lost to President Trump in November, is expected to offer pointed criticism of...
President Trump’s approval rating slipped to 41 percent in the latest CNN poll, conducted just ahead of the 100-day benchmark of the president’s second term. In the mid-April poll, released Sunday, 41 percent of respondents say they approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 59 percent disapprove. That’s down four points from...
The Supreme Court’s recent reversal of the Chevron doctrine means every new regulation is now living on borrowed time — and the FDA’s food dye ban may be its first casualty.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is endorsing Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton (D) in the Democratic primary next year as she vies for retiring Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) seat. “Juliana has not only proven to be an experienced and effective Lieutenant Governor—she’s demonstrated time and again that she truly understands and cares for working people,” Duckworth...
