President Trump announced former deputy surgeon general Dr. Erica Schwartz as his nominee for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director.
In an era when content creators say increasingly outrageous things to stand out from the crowd and politicians must reach potential voters wherever they are, how far is too far? This past October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts ignited a wave of resignations at the storied conservative think tank after posting a video defending Tucker […]
“Exposure to infants in the social environment,” economists Sebastian Galiani and Raul Sosa write in a recent paper, “activates neurobiological mechanisms that increase the desire for parenthood.” That is, babies are contagious. We’ve long known that. As a culture of rational sophisticates, we try to laugh off “baby fever” as an old wives’ tale. As […]
The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic […]
Many American progressives of different faiths, or no faith, celebrated the message delivered by Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Basilica for the April 11 Prayer Vigil for Peace that, in other circumstances, they might have balked at. “Thoughts and prayers,” is shorthand for a kind of consolation after gun-related tragedies in the United States […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has walked back a controversial policy to review major expenditures, implemented by former Secretary Kristi Noem. In an emailed statement on Wednesday night, a DHS spokesperson told The Hill that DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin “re-evaluated the contract processes to make sure DHS is serving the American taxpayer efficiently.” “Today,...
New York University (NYU) has temporarily closed its campus in Abu Dhabi after Iran said U.S. universities in the Middle East were “legitimate targets” amid ongoing military operations in the region. NYU had already moved classes completely online in early March, following the launch of joint military operations by the U.S. and Israel on Iran...
Democrat Analilia Mejia and Republican Joe Hathaway battled it out in a heated debate for New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D) former U.S. House seat, with support for Israel being a notable flash point between the candidates. During the Wednesday debate, Mejia was asked if she believed that Israel’s actions in its war in Gaza...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump approval on economy drops to new low: Poll A new CNN/SSRS poll found just 31 percent of respondents approved of President Trump’s handling of the economy, a new low relative to the outlet’s previous surveys....
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) pushed back on President Trump’s statement that he might pull the U.S. out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Trump told The Telegraph in an interview published Wednesday that the U.S.’s membership in the military alliance is “beyond reconsideration.” “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were...
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte will meet with President Trump in Washington next week as Trump publicly weighs pulling the U.S. out of the alliance over the war in Iran. A White House official confirmed the development to The Hill after The Wall Street Journal first reported on Rutte’s visit. NATO spokesperson Allison Hart told the...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian released a letter addressed to “the people of the United States of America” on Wednesday, hours before President Trump is scheduled to address the nation about the U.S. military’s ongoing operations against Iran. "Today, the world stands at a crossroads,” Pezeshkian wrote in a letter posted on the social platform X. ...
(NEXSTAR) – New guidance released by the American Heart Association this week outlines nine key tenets of a heart-healthy diet, several of which contradict the federal nutrition guidelines released by the Trump administration earlier this year. In January, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled an upside-down food pyramid that emphasized the importance of protein,...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story FDA commissioner credits himself with ‘healing’ agency after DOGE cuts Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary commemorated one year as head of the country’s drug regulatory authority on Wednesday, saying he helped bring “healing” to the agency following cuts...
Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question came during two hours of arguments at the Supreme Court in a case challenging President Trump's 2025 executive order that aimed to end birthright citizenship. “I...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case involving President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, putting the 14th Amendment back in the legal spotlight. The amendment, ratified in 1868 amid Reconstruction, states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United...
President Trump fired off a short TruthSocial post shortly after oral arguments wrapped up for the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court, slamming the challenge to one of his Day 1 executive orders. "We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow 'Birthright' Citizenship!" he wrote. It was the only time...
