Turkish police on Thursday said they arrested 115 ISIS suspects allegedly tied to plots related to Christmas and New Year celebrations. The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office said the "ISIS Armed Terrorist Organization was planning to carry out actions targeting our country, especially non-Muslim individuals, within the scope of the upcoming Christmas and New Year events,” according...
Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, offered his first Christmas sermon as pontiff on Thursday, praying for peace from wars and freedom from economic distress. A crowd of 26,000 gathered to hear the words of the pontiff during the annual “Urbi et Orbi” address from the Central Loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. “If he...
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday endorsed his son Flavio Bolsonaro for the 2026 presidential election from a hospital bed in Brasilia after undergoing treatment for a hernia. “With the commitment of not allowing the popular will to be silenced, I make the decision to nominate Flavio Bolsonaro as a pre-candidate for the presidency...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Senate Democrats introduce bill to block Trump from putting face on dollar coin Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation Tuesday to prevent President Trump or any sitting or living former president...
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE – President Trump on Tuesday called Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s (D-Texas) entrance into the Texas Senate race a “gift to Republicans.” “She’s a low-IQ person. I can’t imagine she wins,” Trump told reporters while en route to a speech in Pennsylvania. “Maybe she’ll get the Democratic nomination, but I think it’s a gift...
. The bipartisan backers of a new bill to extend enhanced ObamaCare subsidies say it represents Congress’s last best chance to avoid a cost cliff for millions of Americans at the start of next year. The legislation introduced Tuesday, spearheaded by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), is the latest effort to break the logjam and stave off the price...
ATLANTA — The Trump administration is considering an executive order to regulate artificial intelligence that would prevent states from putting guardrails on the technology, arguing there should be only one set of rules. The move has stirred concern among child-safety advocates because it would affect how states regulate AI for minors. Still, clinical psychologist Eileen Kennedy-Moore told "Raising...
Vogue’s former Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour called out Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for urging airline passengers to “dress a little better” to encourage more civil behavior. “It was ironic to hear our Secretary of Transport urging the public to be polite the same week our president was calling a female journalist 'piggy' and 'ugly.' Maybe they...
At least one person is dead after a shooting at Kentucky State University (KSU) in Frankfort, Ky., on Tuesday afternoon, according to authorities. The Frankfort Police Department (FPD) said on Facebook that one person has died and another is in "critical condition." Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said on the social platform X that he...
President Trump will give remarks Tuesday evening from Pennsylvania about his economic agenda, which he has graded an "A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus." Since returning to the Oval Office in January, Trump has made sparingly few domestic trips to tout his agenda. But with the 2026 midterms on the horizon and Republicans struggling to sell their signature legislative accomplishment,...
Providing tax credits to caregivers to relieve them of their financial and personal burdens could benefit millions of Americans and the broader economy, advocates backing legislation to do so said Tuesday at an event hosted by The Hill. Lance Robertson, a former assistant secretary on aging with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said he’s less concerned about President Trump potentially running for a third term in office, pointing to the 79-year-old’s age and potential well-being. “I've softened, to your question, on this notion of a third Trump term because time of life and state of mind,” Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential contender,...
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Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) is calling on the U.S. to follow Australia’s lead and ban children younger than 16 from using social media. “When it comes to our adolescents, it’s either going to be adults or the algorithms. One of them is going to raise the kids,” Emanuel said in a video on...
President Trump is watching closely as Netflix and Paramount battle for control of the entertainment giant Warner Bros. Discovery. While Netflix is projecting confidence its agreement to acquire the valuable Warner Brothers studios will hold with investors and clear government regulators, the president’s cozy relationship with Paramount is being seen as a wild card that...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) expressed his enthusiasm about Democratic firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett (Texas) running for Senate. “Am I hiding my glee? I’ll try to wipe the smile off my face, I would say it’s a gift,” Cornyn told Semafor in an interview discussing former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) exiting the race and Crockett jumping...
