Labor Department deploys specialized "strike team" to California over alleged unemployment fraud and $21 billion in improper payments during the pandemic.
President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration for Washington, D.C., allowing FEMA to coordinate emergency relief efforts over the Potomac River sewage crisis.
Elon Musk is touting the Department of Government Efficiency’s release of open-source Medicaid data as a transparency breakthrough. But prosecutors and privacy experts say converting online tips into courtroom convictions could prove far more complicated.
Months before a mass school shooting in British Columbia, OpenAI employees raised alarm about the shooter's violent chatbot prompts and debated calling police, but ultimately opted not to, according to a new report.
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Supreme Court strikes blow to Trump’s tariffs President Trump suffered a major loss as the Supreme Court on Friday struck down his use of an emergency statute to execute the strategy core to his economic agenda. ...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) applauded a Supreme Court ruling Friday that struck down much of President Trump’s tariff agenda, casting the decision as a “firm reminder” of the limits to presidential power. “The Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs is a clear rebuke and firm reminder that presidential power is not unlimited,” Murkowski wrote on the...
Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo called the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling that struck down the bulk of President Trump’s tariffs a “blessing in disguise” for the president ahead of the 2026 midterms. Yoo said that if it forces the president to put off the tariffs, it could boost the economy ahead of...
Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) on Friday said they will oppose any war powers resolution that would require congressional approval for a military strike against Iran. "So long as 'Death to America' remains the rallying cry of the Iranian regime, Iran will remain a persistent and serious threat to our men and...
Three former engineers were charged Thursday with stealing trade secrets from Google and other tech companies and sending the information to Iran. Two sisters, 41-year-old Samaneh Ghandali and 32-year-old Soroor Ghandali, and 40-year-old Mohammadjavad Khosravi were indicted by a federal grand jury, according to the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California. While working...
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) penned a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asking for a “detailed explanation” of how the Department of the Treasury will dole out tariff refunds in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling Friday that said the president was working outside of his authority in imposing some tariffs. “Given this Administration...
President Trump suffered a striking blow to his bid to refashion global trade with sweeping tariffs as the Supreme Court on Friday struck down his use of an emergency statute to execute the strategy core to his economic agenda. Trump was the first president in history to attempt to use the International Emergency Economic Powers...
More than half of Americans surveyed in a new poll disapprove of President Trump’s sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration. The joint survey from The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos found that 58 percent of respondents said they believe the Trump administration has gone too far in its efforts to deport immigrants living in the...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump admin goes back on core pillar of MAHA agenda President Trump issued an executive order this week boosting access to a common herbicide that supporters of the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda have railed against, putting business before...
Vice President Vance condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a majority of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Friday. “Today, the Supreme Court decided that Congress, despite giving the president the ability to ‘regulate imports’, didn't actually mean it,” Vance posted on the social platform X. “This is lawlessness from the Court, plain and...
More than $175 billion in U.S. tariff revenue could be refunded after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump's sweeping emergency tariffs Friday, according to economists with the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), a fiscal research group at the University of Pennsylvania. The economists' findings, which were first reported in Reuters, note that the...
