Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that the State Department is set to reinstate funding for a global humanitarian vaccine program after the Trump administration previously paused the program. “It is welcome news that following our recent outreach, the State Department has committed to contributing the full $600 million for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance,” Collins...
A former Trump health official on Tuesday slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci over his recently-released journal entries. “I'd like to see honesty and transparency and I'd like Tony to come clean with all the things that he's really been caught in contradictions,” Dr. Brett Giroir, a former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health...
Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) is projected to defeat businessman Toby Doeden in Tuesday's GOP primary runoff for South Dakota governor, according to Decision Desk HQ. Rhoden will now take on Democrat Dan Ahlers, a former state senator, in November. He is expected to hang on to the seat given the state’s reliably Republican leanings. Rhoden and...
New York Times opinion journalist Ross Douthat is reportedly set to join CBS News and "60 Minutes" as a correspondent. Douthat, a columnist at the Times and one of the leading voices of its opinion section, is reportedly one of a handful of new journalists who will join CBS ahead of the new season of...
A new analysis released Tuesday shows corporate boardroom diversity among S&P 500 companies has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade. The analysis from global advisory search firm Spencer Stuart found that diverse board appointments among S&P 500 companies have been on the decline since 2021 when it peaked at 72 percent....
A federal judge in Houston ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday to release a man who witnessed federal immigration officers fatally shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo earlier this month. U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison wrote that the continued detention of Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego constitutes an “unconstitutional deprivation” of his liberty. Ellison,...
Voters in Georgia's 13th Congressional District are at the polls Tuesday for a special election to fill late Rep. David Scott's (D) seat. Scott passed away in April at age 80, leaving the seat in the blue stronghold open for the first time since 2002. The late Georgia Democrat's daughter Marcye Scott is competing to...
Republican voters in South Dakota will once again head to the polls Tuesday to weigh in on a heated gubernatorial primary runoff. Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) is vying for a full term leading the Mount Rushmore State against Republican businessman Toby Doeden. Neither candidate secured over half of the vote in a June 2 primary to avoid runoff....
President Trump on Tuesday said a teen lifeguard who saved a child from roaring waves in Santa Cruz, Calif. will be given the “highest civilian honor.” “We’re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor,” Trump...
President Trump’s former teleprompter operator, who bet on his speeches, is no longer working in the federal government. A White House official confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday that Gabriel Perez was no longer employed in the government. Earlier this month, the prediction market platform Kalshi announced it flagged suspicious trades on Trump’s speeches to...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) filled in as guest host on former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s primetime show at the pro-MAGA network One America News (OAN). The Monday night broadcast featured Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), election lawyer Cleta Mitchell, comedian Rob Schneider, Citizens Alliance CEO Cliff Maloney and Christian singer and songwriter Sean Feucht. A promo...
In years’ worth of journal entries, Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote about the uncertainty surrounding the origins of COVID-19, the media attention he received during the pandemic and his “unique” relationship with President Trump. The office of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released the entries, which Fauci wrote while he led the National Institute of Allergy and...
Canadians’ trips to the U.S. declined by $3.3 billion last year as citizens remained wedged in the midst of a new economic and political arena sparked by President Trump’s second term. Our neighbors up north spent $18.8 billion on trips to the U.S. in 2025, according to a recent report from Statistics Canada. Leisure trips...
Wisconsin on Tuesday opened up early in-person voting for its primary elections, which include a chaotic five-way Democratic gubernatorial race and the party's attempt to flip the state's government to its control for the first time since 2010. Party infighting could give state Rep. Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, the edge in claiming the governor's mansion,...
Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, has widened his lead over his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in a new poll. The results of the Texas Public Opinion Research (TPOR) survey, which were shared by The Texas Tribune on Tuesday, found Talarico had a 5 percentage-point advantage among...
