President Trump said Thursday he supports the effort to allow for proxy voting for new parents in Congress, while the standoff between House GOP leadership and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) hardens over the issue. “I don’t know why it’s controversial,” Trump said. "I’m gonna let the Speaker make the decision, but I like the...
U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg hinted at possible contempt proceedings as he grilled a government lawyer Thursday about whether the Trump administration violated his court order by failing to turn around planes carrying migrants to a Salvadoran prison. Boasberg made no decisions following a court hearing even as he otherwise pushed the administration to...
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Thursday that stops the Trump administration from pulling back more than $11 billion in public health funding from state and local health departments. Judge Mary McElroy of the federal district court in Rhode Island granted a 14-day restraining order to a group of 23 states and the...
The Senate has confirmed Mehmet Oz as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), making him the head of Medicaid at a time where its funding is at risk of being severely cut. The Senate voted 53-45 along party lines to confirm Oz. The heart-surgeon-turned-celebrity-physician faced intense questioning by Democrats in the...
House Democrats led by Rep. Brad Schneider (Ill.) pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on mass layoffs at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a Wednesday letter requesting the Trump administration’s plan for slated reductions and their potential impact on taxpayer services. “The Administration has already fired 7,400 probationary employees — or seven percent of all...
The stock market cratered Thursday as fears of global economic slowdown driven by President Trump's new tariffs spurred Wall Street's worst day of losses since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1,679 points Thursday, closing with a loss of 4 percent. The S&P 500 index plunged 4.8...
Automotive giant Ford announced that it will be offering employee pricing to all of their shoppers in the wake of President Trump’s new sweeping tariff package. Ford is kicking off its “From America, For America” campaign on Thursday. The effort, which Ford calls the “handshake deal with every American,” will be advertised on social media,...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Thursday his country will impose 25-percent tariffs on U.S. auto imports that do not comply with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on free trade. Carney said the tariffs are a direct response to President Trump’s 25-percent auto tariffs, which took effect Thursday. “As I told President Trump during our...
Staff members who fought childhood lead exposure and those who worked on cancer clusters were among those fired from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a now former employee told The Hill. The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was cut, according to one person who was...
Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases and sentences, according to findings published on Thursday in the journal Science. The pygmy chimpanzees “seem to combine calls to convey meaning that...
Former Vice President Mike Pence warned about the economic and political risks of the Trump administration’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs on other nations, calling them the “largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history.” Pence, who served alongside President Trump during his first term, posted on the social platform X following Wednesday’s announcement that the tariffs “are...
Donald Trump may attempt to run for a third term in 2028 by endorsing a loyalist GOP ticket for president and vice president, winning back the House, and becoming Speaker, or by refusing to accept electoral defeat and imposing martial law or a military coup.
