President Donald Trump accused members of the U.S. intelligence community Thursday night of operating a "shadow government" to allegedly conceal evidence of Chinese efforts to influence U.S. elections.
More Pennsylvania voters are saying in a new poll they are worse off financially in comparison to the previous year than a few months ago, findings in a key swing state carried by President Trump in 2024 that come as the midterms approach later this year. In the Quinnipiac University poll, 44 percent of respondents...
Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats on Thursday to stop a Trump administration pilot program for Medicare that uses artificial intelligence to approve or deny physician-ordered care. The vote on a resolution to invoke the Congressional Review Act (CRA) and end the program failed on party lines, 46 to 50. CRA votes need a...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave $1 million to Public First, a super PAC backing candidates who support stronger guardrails on AI, according to a campaign finance filing Wednesday. He was joined by several other Anthropic employees, who gave a combined $2.15 million over the last quarter, the filing showed. A Google DeepMind engineer and an...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will meet Thursday afternoon with survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, following pressure from lawmakers during hearings on Capitol Hill this week. A Department of Justice (DOJ) source familiar with the meeting told The Hill’s broadcast partner, NewsNation, that Blanche will meet with these survivors at the DOJ’s...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Thursday took procedural steps to place on the Senate calendar House-passed legislation to provide $1.3 billion in security assistance for Ukraine and expand sanctions on Russia. That bill could serve as a shell for separate legislation, negotiated by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and unveiled this week...
President Trump announced this week that he was exempting 20 more polluting facilities from Biden-era regulations, drawing condemnation from environmental advocates. Trump signed a proclamation exempting the facilities from a rule that seeks to rein in toxic chemicals. When it put the rule forward, the Biden administration said it would curb cancer cases within 31 miles of some 200...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump is on the same page as Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on resuming Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) traffic stops. "Vehicle stops are continuing. Verbal guidance has been given to all field offices across the country by the Department of Homeland Security,” Leavitt told reporters at the...
If we're asking someone to oversee 18 intelligence agencies, manage America's most closely guarded secrets, and advise the president on matters of war and national security, acknowledging basic, established facts, like who won the 2020 election, should not be optional.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the teleprompter operator accused of placing bets on President Trump’s speeches has been put on administrative leave. “The individual that was cited in that report is complying with the CFTC [Commodity Futures Trading Commission] and has been placed on administrative leave,” Leavitt told reporters at the White House...
Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff (Ga.) chastised President Trump ahead of the latter’s speech on Thursday, after CBS News reported the president will allege Chinese meddling in U.S. elections. “The world's most famous sore loser will deliver a primetime presidential sour grapes address to pursue his six-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in...
The House Budget Committee on Thursday advanced a framework for a third reconciliation bill, marking a key step for GOP leaders as they race to get the measure across the finish line before leaving for a month-long recess in August. The committee voted 20-14 to advance the budget resolution. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who had...
Every time we look at one of these races, the evidence presents itself. What was true for Graham Platner and Darializa Avila Chevalier is also true for El-Sayed.
President Trump will deliver a primetime speech Thursday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed it would, at least in part, involve elections. “I think the American people will be relieved to hear what they are hearing from the president of the United States and his commitment to transparency and focus on the integrity of elections tonight,"...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday convened officials from more than 60 countries to raise alarm over what the State Department is warning is a resurgence of far-left political violence globally. Rubio called for an “international response” to the issue at the summit, which marks an expansion of President Trump’s focus on treating left-wing...
