The new PBS Masterpiece series Marble Hall Murders is a sumptuously filmed “cozy” with an unthreatening structural complexity. The Viking Cruises crowd will eat it up with a Christofle spoon. Like its predecessors, Magpie Murders (2022) and Moonflower Murders (2024), the new show is based on a book by Anthony Horowitz, who returns here as […]
Dogs bark, ducks quack, and populists offer free stuff. Enrique Pena Nieto dispensed around 10 million TV sets to low-income Mexican households. Hugo Chavez gave Venezuelans steeply discounted refrigerators, air conditioning units, and, again, TV sets. In Argentina, Evita Peron would personally hand out children’s toys, sewing machines, clothes, and kitchenware. None of these (for once […]
During Donald Trump’s first run for the presidency, China, the economic behemoth that was gutting America’s manufacturing base and flexing its muscles in East Asia, was his favorite punching bag. Yet as Trump was seeking to reclaim the presidency after four years in the political wilderness, his new foreign target was much closer to home: […]
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said she believes President Trump is fixing a lack of government transparency by releasing the files related to former President Kennedy’s assassination. “This was something, as you just said, that the president had spoken about on the campaign trail, and quite frankly, for decades, there has really been no good reason...
The Associated Press said in updated guidance that it will use President Trump’s name change for Denali but not the Gulf of Mexico. In an announcement Thursday, Amanda Barrett, the AP’s vice president of standards and inclusion, said the outlet will adhere to some of the new name changes, but not all. Trump signed an...
Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth paid his sexual assault accuser $50,000 in a settlement agreement with the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, according to a source familiar with the matter. Hegseth is accused of a 2017 sexual assault by Doe, who met him at a Republican conference in October of that year at a...
Two Massachusetts Democrats sent a letter to various regulators asking them to open an investigation into President Trump's and first lady Melania Trump's recently launched meme coins. The letter, signed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), was sent to the Office of Government Ethics, the Department of the Treasury, the Securities...
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.” Ogles proposed an amendment on Thursday that says, "No person shall be elected to the office...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent tech billionaire Elon Musk 30 ideas for how the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could cut government spending. Warren's Thursday letter to Musk, President Trump’s close ally and the commission’s chair, recommended that he consider numerous progressive policy proposals, including allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, renegotiating...
Click for more from The Hill {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump: 'Big discussion' coming on FEMA's future President Trump was sharply critical of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Wednesday, suggesting at one point states should handle their own response to natural disasters but still have the...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is denying any involvement in a Republican-led committee’s decision not to subpoena Cassidy Hutchinson, after The Washington Post reported Thursday that one of his aides urged the panel against doing so out of fear of surfacing lewd texts GOP lawmakers allegedly sent to the former White House staffer. The Washington Post, citing...
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, criticized President Trump, arguing there is “nothing heroic” about him declassifying his grandfather’s assassination documents. “The truth is a lot sadder than the myth — a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme,” Schlossberg posted to social platform X....
President Trump and Republicans this week slammed a plea for "mercy" by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde during a Tuesday morning prayer service, calling it unjustified and inappropriate. But she is unfazed by their denunciations. With Trump seated in the first pew of Washington National Cathedral, alongside first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Vance and second lady Usha...
President Trump on Thursday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine, arguing he thinks the latter is ready to negotiate. A reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office if he thinks sanctions on Russia will force Putin to negotiations after the president threatened this week to impose...
