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Freedom Caucus member Anna Paulina Luna joins AOC to push 10% credit card interest rate cap

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida joins with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to push a proposal to cap credit card interest rates at 10%

National Review founder, conservative icon Bill Buckley honored on new US Postal Service stamps

William F. Buckley, a leading voice for the modern conservative movement, founded National Review in 1955 to publish conservative commentary and analysis.

Social media explodes at Sanders for hosting trans musician who sang ‘pure evil’ song at anti-Trump rally

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is under fire from conservatives and critics for hosting a trans musician who performed what they say was a "pure evil" anti-God song during a rally.

Trump calls former Australian PM ‘weak and ineffective’

President Trump slammed former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who suggested the second Trump administration will be good for China.

Trump’s call to repeal Biden-era CHIPS Act rebuffed by Senate Republicans

Senate Republicans who supported a 2022 law designed to spur domestic semiconductor manufacturing are resisting President Trump's call to repeal it but told The Washington Times they're open to making adjustments.

Democracy group sues over stripping of funds by Trump administration

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has sued the Trump administration for cutting off funds for its democracy building overseas — the latest suit from a target of Elon Musk. The lawsuit states the Treasury Department has locked out the endowment from $167 million in congressionally appropriated funds for over a month, claiming it unconstitutionally...

Federal judge presses pause on NIH funding cuts

A federal judge on Wednesday issued an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from imposing a 15 percent cap on research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), finding that plaintiffs had a high likelihood of succeeding on the merits of their argument. U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley granted a nationwide preliminary injunction...

5 takeaways as Trump’s contrarian NIH pick faces senators

President Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faced questions from senators Wednesday on his plans for vaccine research, ideas for pushing down drug prices, and response to recent firings and funding cuts at the agency. Jay Bhattacharya appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing,...

Trump pick says US needs to ‘adapt’ to climate change

Click for more from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump pick says US needs to 'adapt' to climate change President Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office in charge of climate change and air pollution said Wednesday that the U.S. should “adapt to” rather...

Trump delays tariffs on North American cars

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story  Trump exempts autos from new Canada, Mexico tariffs Trump spoke with the leaders of Ford, General Motors and Stellantis on the heels of imposing 25 percent tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada on Tuesday. ©...

Trump says Hamas will be ‘over’ unless they release all hostages

President Trump on Wednesday issued a warning to Hamas to release its remaining hostages after the White House held direct talks with the designated terrorist organization. “’Shalom Hamas’ means Hello and Goodbye - You can choose. Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered,...

Johnson chief of staff arrested on DUI charge after Trump address

Capitol Police arrested House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) chief of staff on DUI charges Tuesday after President Trump’s first address to Congress concluded. Authorities say Hayden Haynes “backed into a parked vehicle” around 11:40 p.m. Johnson’s office said they are aware of the incident and still confident in Haynes’ ability to lead the office team....

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, leans into ‘family name’

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is now using Prince Harry's "family name" as her surname as she promotes her new Netflix series. "This is the Fast Five with Meghan Sussex," Drew Barrymore said as she introduced a segment with Meghan on her eponymous daytime talk show on Wednesday. The move to call the British royal...

Kennedy’s push for vitamins in response to measles outbreak worries physicians

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric on Texas’s measles outbreak is concerning physicians, who fear his public guidance is misguided and verges on being dangerous as he promotes vitamins and steroids as ways of treating infections.  The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) says 159 measles cases have been...

House tees up final vote to censure Al Green for protest at Trump speech

The House on Wednesday teed up a final vote on a resolution to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for disrupting President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. The chamber voted 209-211-1 on a Democratic-led motion to table the censure resolution, falling short of the majority vote needed to block the measure from advancing....

GOP lawmaker says she will criminally refer four Democratic mayors to DOJ

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told four Democratic mayors before the Oversight Committee that she would criminally refer them to the Department of Justice for upholding sanctuary city policies on Wednesday.  "To me after this line of questioning, it's very clear that these policies that you have all implicated are active and alive and well...

Democratic senator recants praise for Trump border ‘progress’

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has retracted his praise for President Trump's progress on illegal immigration but says the drop in illegal border crossings is "good news" for the country.

Trump, Vance and Zelensky: Who should be thanking whom? 

Trump and Vance's insistence that Zelensky should thank them for American support of Ukraine is not based on gratitude but on American security interests, and reducing or ending American assistance to Ukraine would hurt American and Ukrainian security interests.

‘This is not normal’: Who held up the protest sign before Trump’s speech?

Just over the president's shoulder you may have spotted a small, handwritten sign. It read, "This is NOT Normal," in black ink.

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