LeVar Burton used an appearance on ABC's "The View" this week to slam federal cuts to public broadcasting and what he called a national "problem with the truth," weaving pointed political commentary into a wide-ranging conversation about his decades in television.
House and Senate Republicans delayed key procedural votes Tuesday to advance an extension of the federal foreign surveillance law that expires in two days.
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Republicans fear string of shutdowns under Trump Senate Republicans who are scrambling to end the two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fear that Democrats will trigger an even bigger government shutdown in October...
President Trump has moved into an apparent holding pattern after his latest diplomatic retreat in the stalemate with Iran, trying to find an off-ramp to the war that would allow him to claim victory. Trump unilaterally extended a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, after backing down from his threats to bomb Iran’s civilization into oblivion earlier...
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) on Wednesday said he will appeal an injunction on the state's redistricting referendum approved by voters. "As I said last night, Virginia voters have spoken, and an activist judge should not have veto power over the People's vote," Jones said in a statement shared on the social platform X....
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) sent a Wednesday letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) strongly opposing the possibility of a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime partner and accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I am writing to express my disgust at the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) reported willingness to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell,” Krishnamoorthi...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Ceasefire in question after Iran seizes ships Iran has attacked multiple ships in the Strait of Hormuz less than a day after President Trump extended the ceasefire indefinitely until Tehran agrees to negotiate a new deal....
Navy Secretary John Phelan is departing the administration after serving in the role for just over a year, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday. “On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy,” Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief...
Podcaster Joe Rogan on Tuesday said President Trump "called me a liberal" while at a White House event last week to hasten research on psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine. "The Joe Rogan Experience" guest Luis J. Gomez told Rogan that "people are pissed" about remarks Trump made during the event, where Trump signed an executive order...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking into a close call between two planes at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the agency said in a statement. According to the FAA statement, Republic Airways flight 4464 halted its landing at JFK on Monday afternoon “after missing the intended approach path and flying too close to Jazz...
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday apologized for past comments he made about Black children being "re-parented," while maintaining that he didn't make those remarks despite there being a recording of him doing so. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) asked Kennedy whether he could admit to saying that he had...
The German airline Lufthansa said it would cut 20,000 flights in the coming months to accommodate rising jet fuel costs amid the ongoing war with Iran. The schedule adjustments will affect “unprofitable short-haul flights” in Europe through the end of October, the Lufthansa Group said in a press release Tuesday. Flight changes through the end...
Kalshi has suspended three political candidates for betting on their own races, the prediction market platform announced Wednesday. Minnesota congressional candidate and state Sen. Matt Klein (D) and former Texas congressional candidate Ezekiel Enriquez (R) both settled and paid small fines over the trades, while Virginia Senate candidate Mark Moran (I) declined to settle and...
Dozens of Senate Democrats are calling on the U.S. Postal Service not to comply with President Trump’s executive order that restricts mail-in voting. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) demanded in a Monday letter to the Postal Service that it “follow the law...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said Republicans “wasted” the money spent funding his opponent and attack ads against him in the upcoming Kentucky Republican primary race. “They’ve wasted $10 million in my race already. Imagine if they had used that in Virginia,” Massie wrote on the social platform X, referencing Democrats’ Tuesday redistricting win in the...
The Marine Corps has upgraded the valor awards given to Marines who guarded Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021 — the day a suicide bomber struck the gate and killed 13 service members and 170 Afghans, the Pentagon said Wednesday. “After reviewing the original awards and determining that several...
