President Trump announced Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that eliminate an electric vehicle (EV) mandate introduced under the Biden administration. The 2024 EV mandate aimed to facilitate the transition from gas-powered to EVs by setting new pollution standards for automakers' vehicle fleets, which were intentionally difficult to meet without introducing new electric or...
Former Kennedy Center employees accused the iconic performing arts venue's leadership in a letter to Congress of halting planned waterproofing repairs earlier this year. In the Thursday letter, David Seide, an attorney representing the whistleblowers, shared internal documents which he said challenged the Kennedy Center board's claims that these leaks constituted the venue's immediate closure. ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) threw her support behind Christy Goldsmith Romero to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) after President Biden announced Thursday he would nominate Romero, a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to replace outgoing chair Martin Gruenberg. “She is exactly what the FDIC needs,” Warren told reporters on Thursday...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) hit Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for meeting with former President Trump alongside the Senate GOP on Thursday. Cheney, who left Congress after losing reelection to her seat in 2022, said the meeting shows McConnell is enabling the former president, who she called "a danger to our Republic." “Mitch...
The U.S. Navy has sent a nuclear-powered submarine to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after a fleet of Russian warships and a submarine reached the island Wednesday ahead of planned military exercises. The USS Helena, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, arrived at the waters near the U.S. base on Thursday, U.S. Southern Command (USSOCOM) said in a statement...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said Charlamagne tha God “has a point” after the radio host criticized Democrats and their messaging strategies. Axelrod joined CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” Thursday, where he argued Democrats may need to be more authentic with their voter base. Tapper played a clip of Charlamagne on “The Daily Show” in...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Thursday protested an amendment added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that bars funding for drag performances with a blown-up photo of former President Trump and Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and Trump attorney, dressed in drag. An amendment filed this week to the annual defense policy...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump teases another corporate tax cut Former President Trump floated further cuts to the corporate tax rate during a Business Roundtable event with some of the country’s most powerful executives, according to a source in attendance....
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith sought to ease government scrutiny during a House hearing Thursday by acknowledging the company's shortcomings in allowing a recent China-backed hack to take place. As the sole witness at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Smith faced pointed questions from both sides of the aisle about a hack...
House Republicans nixed text aimed at protecting banks from cannabis crackdowns from a government funding bill after blowback from fellow GOP lawmakers. The measure was included in the party’s initial version of its annual financial services and general government bill, one of the 12 annual funding bills Republicans are hoping to pass before fall. The...
We can only hope that before he speaks before Congress, Mr. Netanyahu will be as candid and specific on the nuclear portion of the Biden deal as he has been about the rest of it.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken refused to say Thursday whether the U.S. could pursue its own separate deal with Hamas to free American citizens still held hostage by the terrorist organization in Gaza, as negotiations with Israel over a potential cease-fire continue. Hamas negotiators have accepted only in part a U.S.-led proposal that would see...
Former President Trump made a trip to Washington, D.C., Thursday to meet with members of the House and Senate — striking a unified tone with Republican lawmakers as the November election inches closer. Following the two closed-door meetings, he spoke briefly to the press, saying the GOP is in agreement on "just about everything." The...
Former President Donald Trump doesn't think Milwaukee itself is "horrible," but that the crime in the city is, his campaign clarified Thursday, after reports circulated that he had dissed the site of the upcoming Republican National Convention. Dylan Johnson, a Trump campaign spokesperson, called the situation "a desperate attempt to get likes" on social media...
