President Trump on Monday celebrated the biggest trophy yet for his tariff agenda: a Minnesota company's plans to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa, where midterm voters are being promised the first new steel plant built in the U.S. in 57 years.
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Don’t drink raw milk, especially during a bird flu outbreak, experts say Apart from being a federally illicit good, raw milk is a vector for numerous pathogens, including the H5N1 bird flu that’s infecting dairy cows across countries....
Lawyers for former President Trump have sent a cease-and-desist letter to filmmakers behind the new biopic “The Apprentice" after its debut at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this week, according to multiple Friday reports. According to Variety, which first reported on the letter, Trump's team is seeking to block release of "The Apprentice" and warns...
A ban on intoxicating hemp products has made it into the House version of the farm bill. If the amendment makes it through a polarized House and divided Congress, it would end America's brief experiment with nationally legal cannabis. The language added to the House version of the farm bill by Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) in effect repeals a sweeping legal change...
Four families of Marines who died in a 2022 V-22 Osprey crash in California have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the manufacturers of the military aircraft, accusing the companies of not disclosing known safety issues to the Pentagon. The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday against Boeing, Bell Textron and Rolls-Royce in California, alleges that the makers...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joked about his “brain worm” while speaking to attendees at the Libertarian National Convention on Friday, a comment that came after The New York Times reported earlier this month that he once claimed a parasite ate part of his brain. The quip came as he was listing examples of what...
Experts are warning that more and more people younger than 40 years are being diagnosed with colon cancer, saying they could be missing the early signs. A study released Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open said the most common warning sign for the cancer is passing blood in the stool. Abdominal pain, changes...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will transfer his powers to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks temporarily, as he undergoes a medical procedure, the Pentagon announced Friday. The nonsurgical procedure on his bladder is “scheduled, elective, and minimally invasive” and will be performed at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Pentagon spokesperson Major Gen. Patrick Ryder...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) slammed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Thursday. While at the the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute’s Reagan Institute Summit on Education (RISE) Thursday, Sununu noted mostly friendly relations among state governors but said in his eight years in his current...
Key Democratic senators, both sitting on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are seeking to meet with Chief Justice John Roberts over recent reports of controversial flags being displayed at Justice Samuel Alito’s homes. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) demanded to meet with Roberts “as soon as possible” to talk about the Supreme Court’s...
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government is pushing forward on intensifying military operations against Hamas in Rafah, despite increasing international isolation, deepening tensions with President Biden and pressure from Israeli society critical of efforts to free hostages held in Gaza. Israel describes the southern Gazan city of Rafah as the stronghold of the last pieces of Hamas’s...
