Sensible New Yorkers already were having anxiety attacks about their next mayor before a series of terrifying events in America and around the world underscored what an extraordinarily bad...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Monday that "the dam is breaking” on President Trump’s influence over the Republican Party. “I think the dam is breaking. Many Republicans may not have called him out, but last week, 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to overturn one of President Trump's executive orders, which enabled him to fire...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed briefings on recent strikes on alleged drug boats, calling them “a joke.” “Were you satisfied with the answers that — you’ve gotten so far today in these classified briefings —” journalist Pablo Manríquez asked Ocasio-Cortez in a clip posted to the social platform X Tuesday. “Oh hell no,” the New...
Republicans on the House Rules Committee on Tuesday shut the door on amendments to extend the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, effectively setting the stage for a surge in health insurance premiums as Congress leaves for winter recess later this week. A group of moderate Republicans offered the amendments during a committee debate on a...
Operation Midway Blitz intensifies as Border Patrol deploys additional agents to Chicago despite local officials' opposition to federal immigration raids.
President Trump led an effort to close ranks around White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Tuesday, seeking to contain damage of Wiles’s own making. The furor was kicked off by a move that stunned Washington. Wiles — known both for a relative aversion to the spotlight and for imposing some discipline on the...
Two more Heritage Foundation board of trustees members resigned on Tuesday in the wake of the conservative think tank's president defending an interview between conservative pundit Tucker Carlson and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. "No institution that hesitates to condemn antisemitism and hatred — or that gives a platform to those who spread them — can...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Democrats are battling over publicly releasing the video of the U.S. military’s Sept. 2 attack on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, a controversial operation in which two boatwrecked survivors were killed, spurring war crime allegations. Democrats have been pressing the Pentagon for weeks to release the video of the Sept. 2...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Tuesday’s classified briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms the Trump administration has no legal or national security justification for the strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Murphy said in a...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary on Monday denied recent reports suggesting plans for his agency to add a black box warning onto COVID-19 vaccines. CNN reported last week that the FDA was considering adding a black box warning onto the COVID-19 vaccine, citing two sources familiar with agency plans. A black box...
A federal judge said Tuesday he is not inclined to temporarily halt President Trump’s White House ballroom construction project at the request of a preservationist group that sued. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, said the National Trust for Historic Preservation failed to show it would face harm...
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley said Tuesday he is cutting ties with the professional wrestling organization, citing its close relationship with the Trump administration. Foley, who’s long been critical of President Trump, said the president’s comments on the death of acclaimed actor-director Rob Reiner were the “final straw” compelling the wrestler to inform WWE...
President Trump is facing backlash from both ends of the political spectrum for his response to the killings of director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, with some critics arguing the president’s words were particularly troublesome in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. While Trump’s comments are unlikely to harm him...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday that its officials did not pull over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) son and accused her of a “PR stunt.” “[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] has absolutely ZERO record of its officers or agents pulling over Congresswoman Omar’s son. With no evidence, it is shameful that Congresswoman Omar...
The banking sector is changing fast, with policymakers, industry leaders and consumers figuring out how to grapple with the benefits and risks of an increasingly interconnected financial system. Lawmakers and banking experts joined The Hill’s “Modern Money” event, sponsored by the Bank Policy Institute, on Tuesday to discuss how to strengthen consumer protections, particularly amid...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said President Trump ramps up his attacks on immigrants and other communities when negative news about his administration runs. “When things aren’t going well for him … cue the bigotry,” the Minnesota lawmaker told The Guardian in an interview published Tuesday. “It’s the same playbook and he just goes back to...
President Trump on Tuesday said he still had confidence in White House chief of staff Susie Wiles after she generated controversy with comments to Vanity Fair about members of the Cabinet. “I didn’t read it, but I don’t read Vanity Fair — but she’s done a fantastic job,” Trump told the New York Post in...
