Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his primetime slot at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas to deliver a blistering indictment of the modern Democratic Party: the same party with which his family has been synonymous for generations.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that Republicans need more time calling the shots to deal with what he described as the mess they inherited from President Biden and Democrats in Washington.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's found a way of knocking out her worries: landing blows on life's aggravations in the boxing ring. “I take boxing lessons,” Jackson said in an interview this week with The Associated Press. "And I think that helps you to really get out any frustrations," the 54-year-old liberal justice said. Boxing...
President Trump will meet with the CEO of chipmaking powerhouse Nvidia on Friday as the White House reportedly mulls tightening chip exports to China, a White House official confirmed to The Hill. The meeting with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang comes as competition between the U.S. and China heats up over artificial intelligence (AI) development amid...
President Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, is delivering an in-person message to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro that there will be consequences if detained Americans are not released and Venezuelan “criminals and gang members” deported from the U.S. are not repatriated. Grenell is expected to meet with Maduro on Friday. “He is there on...
President Trump vowed to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on countries that back a new reserve currency among the BRICS countries, a group that includes Russia and China. Trump's Truth Social post on Thursday reiterated threats he made in late November, before returning to the White House. “The idea that the BRICS Countries...
A federal appeals court ruled that a federal law banning firearms stores from selling handguns to adults between 18 years old and 20 years old is unconstitutional. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law years ago, but on Thursday found the law unconstitutional under the conservative-majority Supreme Court’s expanded interpretation of the Second...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said late Thursday he would not support Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence after she refused to condemn NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Speaking with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Warner expressed concern that Gabbard during her Thursday hearing repeatedly refused to label Snowden a...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) signaled Thursday that former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's nomination for director of national intelligence could be in jeopardy after her past defense of alleged traitors, adding to the list of skeptics. “I’m worried by what I hear from some of my Republican colleagues. I’m worried that her nomination may be in...
House Democrats want to know what the Trump administration plans to do after it rescinded a Biden-era executive order to study potential payment models for lowering prescription drug costs, looking to the acting heads of health agencies for answers. A group of 51 House Democrats led by Rep. Shontel Brown (Ohio) wrote to Dorothy Fink,...
The price of renting an apartment is on the rise, particularly in some major U.S. cities. This is according to the latest rent report from Zumper, which has found that across the nation, the price for a one-bedroom apartment is up 2.5% since this time last year.
Lawmakers of both parties should be concerned that Inspector General Ware’s firing is Trump’s attempt to avoid responsibility for his first administration’s ham-fisted delivery of pandemic relief programs.
