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Resurfaced video of resident rejecting Fauci’s door-to-door vaccine sales pitch goes viral

A D.C. resident confronted Anthony Fauci at his door over vaccine safety concerns during the 2021 Anacostia door-to-door campaign with Muriel Bowser.

Fauci’s Fifth Amendment plea shows Biden autopen pardon on ‘legally questionable’ ground, Comer says

James Comer says Anthony Fauci's autopen pardon is on legally questionable grounds after the former health official pleaded the Fifth more than 100 times.

Rand Paul seeks contempt charges after Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment more than 100 times

Rand Paul announced he will seek contempt charges after Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right over 100 times during the hearing.

Yes, please, shame adults for getting into fights at youth sports games

Let's skip the silly kids’ games and go straight to the main event: out...

An Opportunity for the Court to Sober Up Its Commerce Clause Jurisprudence

The Court has not flinched from overruling other egregiously wrong precedents in recent terms....

Fiery Michigan Senate primary reaches final stretch: Takeaways from El-Sayed, Stevens debate

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) and former Wayne County health director Abdul El-Sayed squared off in their second one-on-one debate to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) — just one week out from the Aug. 4 Democratic Senate primary. The duo clashed once again over corporate influence and support for Israel, with El-Sayed hammering Stevens over the tens of millions of dollars pouring into the...

Minnesota prediction market ban paused by federal judge days before rollout

A federal judge on Monday halted a prediction market ban in Minnesota days before it was set to roll out.  District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote that the Trump administration, Kalshi and Polymarket are “likely to succeed on the merits” in the case arguing that the state ban is pre-empted by federal law.  “Specifically, it appears...

Academics call on Congress to restore agency independence after Trump v. Slaughter

A group of more than 50 academics on Monday wrote a letter to congressional leaders urging them to restore agency independence following last month’s Supreme Court ruling, which granted President Trump the authority to fire commissioners of independent agencies without cause.  The professors argue that the ruling stalled business for the Consumer Product Safety Commission,...

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong urge UK to take action against Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong wrote an op-ed Monday citing the dangers to industry competition, jobs and a concentration of power if Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merge. “We have watched, with growing alarm, what consolidation does to the breadth and depth of the work we produce: independent film acquisitions at the...

Pentagon mum as US casualties in Iran war rise

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Pentagon mum as US casualties in Iran war rise The Pentagon’s Iran war casualty count topped 600 over the weekend, following a quiet update as the department faces questions about the absence of transparency. © AP...

Senate tees up final vote on Jay Clayton intel chief nomination

The Senate cleared a final procedural hurdle Monday night on President Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), teeing up Jay Clayton for a final vote this week. The 51-43 vote to advance the nomination means the Senate could confirm Clayton as early as Tuesday night to be the...

EPA: Data center power not subject to acid rain restrictions

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story EPA exempts data center plants from acid rain rules The Trump administration announced Monday that it is excluding power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain. © AP...

Paul releases Fauci’s diary entries ahead of hearing

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Health Care   The Big Story Paul releases Fauci's diary entries ahead of hearing Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci will appear before the Senate this week for a hearing. Leading up to his appearance, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released thousands of pages...

Canada tariff fight hands Democrats cudgel in Michigan midterm races

Escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada could play into Democratic messaging around the economy, particularly in the battleground state of Michigan, which has some of the highest cross-border trade of any state. Trump slapped an additional 50 percent tariffs on Canada, accusing the country of “discriminatory” trade practices last week. The president has...

40 percent report buying less produce amid cyclospora outbreak: Poll

A poll released Sunday shows that 40 percent of U.S. adults are buying or eating less produce after the cyclospora outbreak.  Comparatively, according to survey results from CBS/YouGov, 4 percent of people said they are eating more produce. Among respondents, 56 percent said there has been no change in their diet.  Earlier this month, the...

Federal panel votes to propose changes to historic preservation rules that Trump administration says holds up projects

A federal panel on Friday voted to advance a revamp of the nation’s historic preservation rules that Trump administration officials say slow down projects. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, which is made up primarily of Trump appointees, voted to propose to rewrite requirements to consult with the public if a project may impact historic...

Companies rally behind open-source tech 

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Nvidia launches new open-source AI security alliance Nvidia is launching a new alliance focused on building and sharing open-source AI tools to boost cybersecurity defenses, as the push for open-source technologies ramps up in the U.S. © AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Nvidia announced Monday that the Open Secure AI Alliance will use open-source...

Top Democrat calls on Taylor Farms to provide information on Trump administration cyclospora communications

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Monday called on Taylor Farms to provide information about its connections with the White House amid a parasitic outbreak potentially linked to the company's lettuce supply. Garcia wrote a letter to Taylor Farms CEO Bruce Taylor questioning whether the...

Saudi Arabia stares down Trump whiplash on nuclear deal

Saudi Arabia is sending no signals it will accept President Trump’s after-the-fact condition that Riyadh establish ties with Israel as part of a nuclear energy deal with the United States. In fact, its leaders haven’t even conceded that the deal signed last week is off.  Normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia was long a central...

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