Texas A&M University’s president Mark Welsh will step down on Friday after turmoil ignited over a gender identity lesson, the Texas A&M University System said on Thursday. Welsh, a former Air Force pilot and Joint Chiefs of Staff member, has received blowback from Republican lawmakers in recent days over a viral video where a student...
A group of Senate Democrats are calling on the United States government to recognize a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside a secure state of Israel. The nonbinding resolution was introduced Thursday by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the first of its kind in the Senate, as the pressure rises on Israel over its nearly two-year military siege...
Four members of Congress called attention to the bipartisan work their staffers put in on Thursday. The lawmakers, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Reps. James Comer (D-Ky.), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), honored the work of their staff at The Hill’s third annual Notable Staffers event. During a panel moderated by The Hill’s...
President Trump slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Somalia on Thursday, a day after a resolution to formally reprimand the Minnesota Democrat and remove her from committee assignments failed in the House. “I think she's terrible. I think she should be impeached. I think she's terrible,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One on...
Federal Reserve board member Christopher Waller, one of President Trump's potential picks to chair the central bank, said Thursday the Fed must begin cutting interest rates at its next meeting. In an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box," Waller expressed concerns about how quickly the weakening U.S. job market could fall apart if the Fed doesn't...
Trump's call to downplay the horrors of slavery is a red flag moment, as evidenced by the microhistory of Christmas on plantations, which reveals the continued physical and verbal abuse, slave trading and other horrors of slavery during the holiday season.
LIVE Video: Massie, Khanna press DOJ for transparency alongside Epstein victims Lawmakers are settling back in on Capitol Hill as they stare down a hefty legislative agenda and a looming government shutdown. Business on the docket includes efforts to release files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, as well as fraught funding negotiations amid President...
Shares of Google's parent company soared to an all-time high Wednesday, a day after a federal court derailed the Justice Department's (DOJ) attempt to break up the internet giant. Alphabet stock was up more than 8 percent shortly before noon Wednesday, breaking its previous record share price of $205. Shares of the company — which...
C-SPAN has reached agreements with YouTube TV and Hulu to bring the government access network to the pair of streamers starting this fall. The three C-SPAN channels — C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, and C-SPAN3 — will all join YouTube TV’s base package lineup this fall, while YouTubeTV will also carry the network’s coverage of "America 250" celebrations and...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said a planned meeting with career intelligence officials was spiked by the Trump administration after far-right activist Laura Loomer complained about the event. Warner, in a late Tuesday statement, said the administration made a “nakedly political decision” to cancel his meeting with employees at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) alongside its...
Texas has officially outlawed the sale of lab-grown meat in stores and restaurants, becoming the seventh state to enact such a ban since the federal government authorized the products in 2023. The ban has been hailed by the state's traditional meat and livestock industries. "This ban is a massive win for Texas ranchers, producers and...
President Trump “has never been transparent about his health,” The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman said Tuesday in the wake of recent discussion surrounding the president's health on social media. “President Trump has never been transparent about his health. He was much sicker with COVID than the White House said in 2020. You know, they...
House GOP leaders are urging their members to steer clear of the discharge petition aiming to force the Trump administration to release all the government files on Jeffrey Epstein. In a closed-door meeting in the basement of the Capitol, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called on GOP lawmakers to instead support the efforts of the Oversight...
The number of job openings decreased by more in July than economists were expecting as the labor market recalibrates in response to President Trump’s trade war and immigration crackdown. Open jobs in the monthly JOLTS survey fell to a rounded 7.2 million, down from 7.4 million in June, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Economic forecasts...
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) signed an order on Tuesday authorizing coordination between local police and federal forces extending beyond President Trump’s declared emergency in the nation's capital. The top priorities for the joint effort will including homelessness and encampments, beautification, and finance and economic resilience, according to a release from Bowser’s office. The...
Former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin on Tuesday said President Trump’s decision to target Chicago with federal intervention amidst his crack down on crime is a “smart” move. “Chicago has a crime problem, there‘s no doubt. And Donald Trump knows that this is a smart fight for him to pick, not just with his...
