DOJ defends Epstein files delay citing need to review over one million pages. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says "well-settled law" supports missing deadline for victim protection.
Trump administration announces $2 billion U.N. humanitarian funding that officials say will save taxpayers $1.9 billion through consolidated operations.
President Trump said Tuesday he would designate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's regime a foreign terrorist organization and direct the blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela. Trump posted on Truth Social that he was ordering a "total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, Venezuela," further...
Democrat Gary Clemons has won a special election to a fill a Kentucky state Senate seat, according to Decision Desk HQ. Clemons, president of United Steelworkers Local 1693 and an Army veteran, beat back challenges from Republican Calvin Leach, an Army veteran and former state Senate candidate, and Libertarian candidate Wendy Higdon, who founded the Louisville Tea Party...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins sent a letter on Tuesday to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) requiring him to conduct recertifications for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients in four counties. “As part of the recertification process, ensure SNAP households in Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington, and Wright counties meet all eligibility requirements for SNAP, including by accounting...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Republicans ready to jump off ObamaCare cliff Republicans are gearing up to let enhanced ObamaCare subsidies expire at the end of the month. The deadline was Monday for people on Affordable Care Act plans who want to enroll in coverage...
President Trump will participate in a Hanukkah celebration at the White House Tuesday evening. The event comes as Jewish groups in the U.S. have urged their counterparts to increase security precautions after an attack during a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, over the weekend. It was also recently revealed that a history-making menorah —...
Former President Biden, during a Monday meet-and-greet event for his presidential library, urged the United States to press ahead as a world leader. “If we don't lead, who leads the world? Russia? China?” Biden asked. “We have to. We owe it to our own families, we owe it to the world and we can get...
Presented by the Bank Policy Institute — {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy PRESENTED BY THE BANK POLICY INSTITUTE The Big Story Bank experts tackle changes facing industry, consumers The banking sector is changing fast, with policymakers, industry leaders and consumers figuring out how to grapple with the benefits and risks of an...
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is grappling with a controversy of her own making after she made a number of startling admissions in a series of interviews with Vanity Fair. In an article published Tuesday that drew on 11 interviews with Wiles over the past year, the chief of staff offered blunt assessments...
Republican tensions boiled over on Tuesday in the Capitol over the fate of expiring ObamaCare subsidies that could play an outsized role in the race for the House next year. Republican moderates lashed out at House GOP leadership just hours after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) backtracked on his plan to vote this week to extend...
President Trump led an effort to close ranks around White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Tuesday, seeking to contain damage of Wiles’s own making. The furor was kicked off by a move that stunned Washington. Wiles — known both for a relative aversion to the spotlight and for imposing some discipline on the...
Two more Heritage Foundation board of trustees members resigned on Tuesday in the wake of the conservative think tank's president defending an interview between conservative pundit Tucker Carlson and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. "No institution that hesitates to condemn antisemitism and hatred — or that gives a platform to those who spread them — can...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Democrats are battling over publicly releasing the video of the U.S. military’s Sept. 2 attack on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, a controversial operation in which two boatwrecked survivors were killed, spurring war crime allegations. Democrats have been pressing the Pentagon for weeks to release the video of the Sept. 2...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Tuesday’s classified briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms the Trump administration has no legal or national security justification for the strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Murphy said in a...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary on Monday denied recent reports suggesting plans for his agency to add a black box warning onto COVID-19 vaccines. CNN reported last week that the FDA was considering adding a black box warning onto the COVID-19 vaccine, citing two sources familiar with agency plans. A black box...
