When President Trump sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner at the White House next week, he will be flanked by the architects of America's tech economy.
“I am a Jew.” Those four words should be an ordinary declaration of identity. At a prayer vigil outside the New York mayor’s office on Sept. 18, they became a statement of resolve. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan, built his remarks around “Ivri Anochi,” עברי אנכי, drawing on the […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday said that “no one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass,” in a post on the social media platform X. The video comes after he faced backlash for meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law. The New York Times reported on Sunday that the two met...
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Monday clashed with Fox News host Jesse Watters in a wide-ranging interview, often full of crosstalk, that covered culture war topics to the candidate's faith to gas prices. El-Sayed, a progressive, appeared for roughly half an hour on "Jesse Watters Primetime," where the host played clips of past...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Back-to-school season fuels growing measles concerns With back-to-school season underway, students are returning to class amid the worst year of measles in recent U.S. history, record-high vaccine exemptions reported among kindergarteners and continuously changing immunization guidance under the Trump administration. ...
Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s junior liberal justice, excoriated her colleagues for lifting a block on President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order on Monday, saying it “needlessly injects chaos” into this year’s elections. “It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who...
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke business and tourism visas from up to 200,000 migrants who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum in the U.S. on a rolling basis — a move that would trigger the largest mass visa revocation ever, The Associated Press reported Monday. The State Department is expected to...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Monday voiced his support for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) after the congressman received blowback for meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law. A reporter asked Mamdani if he supported Jeffries were he to become Speaker if Democrats reclaim the House following the fall midterm elections....
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on Monday said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in recent weeks to create an opportunity for future discussions. “I think knowing Jared Kushner, I think he's used to keeping lines of communication open. These are some of the things that he does repeatedly,...
President Trump’s super PAC MAGA Inc. spent more than $827,000 to support Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) ahead of the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff on Tuesday, marking the group’s most significant spending in months. The filing with the Federal Election Commission, which was made public on Monday, marks the group’s first independent expenditure since March...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump bets on economic chokehold on Iran over military strikes, for now Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the Trump administration’s economic pressure on Iran is hurting the regime “the most right now,” but did not...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for a new test for Alzheimer's disease, marking the fourth time such a blood test has been approved in less than two years. Roche announced Sunday that the FDA had granted approval to its Elecsys Phospho-Tau blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. It's the fourth such...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that holding elections amid Russia's war with Ukraine would "destroy" the country. "I believe that if we want to destroy the country, then we can move towards elections during this kind of war," Zelensky told reporters. The president said that elections "in general pose major risks," noting that...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday threatened to cut the province’s power exports to the U.S. as a trade war with President Trump plays out publicly for a second time. Ford told reporters “everything is on the table” when it comes to retaliatory measures against the White House in response to failed trade talks and...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump administration lays out new $103K fee proposal for H-1B visas The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a new proposed rule for H-1B visas on Monday that would charge a $103,265 fee for all workers seeking to gain employment in the U.S. who are subject to the...
