Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week show that despite a 1% increase in the birth rate, people are still not having enough babies to prevent the U.S. population from declining. President Donald Trump acknowledged the problem Tuesday, saying he wants to reverse the trend in a welcome change from […]
Journalists at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner offered an impassioned defense of their work at the annual event — which broke with tradition and featured neither the president nor a comedian — saying defiantly, "We are not the enemy of the state." "Our responsibility is not to align with any one party or...
The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a routine security check, officials said Saturday.
Former national security adviser John Bolton said the Saturday meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome is a “significant” step towards reestablishing a better channel of communication between the heads of state. “I think the meeting was significant. I think this is a significant step back toward sensible conversation between the...
President Trump and Vice President Vance have expressed their sympathy and support for India in the wake of a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, with the Prime Minister promising that those responsible will be brought to justice.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed reporters Tuesday afternoon after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on "Fox & Friends" to defend himself amid a new Signal chat scandal. The New York Times on Sunday reported the Pentagon chief shared information in a Signal group chat with family members and his personal lawyer, just weeks...
The longtime executive producer of "60 Minutes" is leaving the program, writing to staff on Monday he could no longer preside over the Sunday evening show objectively as it faces increasing threats and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from President Trump. "My 60 Minutes priorities have always been clear. Maybe not smart, but clear," Bill Owens, executive...
Attorney General Pam Bondi will lead the first meeting of the White House task force assigned to "eradicate anti-Christan bias," just days after the Easter holiday. The panel will address what President Trump described during February's National Prayer Breakfast as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular. The event comes after Trump moved...
Harvard Law professor and former Biden and Obama adviser Laurence Tribe is ripping President Trump’s attempted “takeover” at Harvard, calling it a move suited to a dictator such as Adolf Hitler, Viktor Orban or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Tribe joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday to discuss the Trump administration’s continued efforts to punish Harvard after...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to investigate Trump administration officials’ use of Signal and other third-party messaging applications. Schiff, a frequent critic of President Trump, urged NARA to make sure the messages sent over the encrypted messaging app by Trump officials are preserved and warned that, apart from...
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. – California Gov. Gavin Newsom is accusing the Democratic Party of not yet performing a thorough autopsy on what went wrong in its devastating loss of the White House and Senate majority in November. In an exclusive sit-down interview with The Hill on Monday, Newsom said that if the party wants to...
The Washington Post has struck a deal with OpenAI that will allow the artificial intelligence provider to use the outlet's journalism as part of its search function. As part of the deal, OpenAI's ChatGPT will display summaries, quotes and links to original reporting from the Post in response to relevant questions and prompts, the company...
A judge on Monday temporarily blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to establish an office on Rikers Island. New York State Supreme Court Justice Mary Rosado said city officials should halt any efforts “towards negotiating, signing, or implementing any Memoranda of Understanding with the federal government...
The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) told fired probationary employees it would no longer pursue complaints they were wrongfully terminated, a reversal that comes after the Trump administration fired the head of the agency. In an email to those who had filed claims with the agency, the OSC said it “plans to take no...
Veteran journalist Bob Woodward said Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “radiates unseriousness” amid controversy over a second Signal chat in which he shared sensitive military information with family members and a personal lawyer. “So, you want that position to be … filled by somebody who's very serious, very competent, very focused on that mission,...
