On the anniversary of Bashar Assad’s fall, a small group of professionals gathered at Aznavour, a restaurant in Damascus’s Old City. Red light washed over stone walls as hookah smoke hung in the air and a television cycled through Arabic music videos. They had come to talk about what had changed in Syria — and […]
Playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) chased the same idea for 30 years. A mild-mannered, rule-bound protagonist meets a counterpart who is wild at heart. Our hero is at first repelled but soon becomes fascinated, envious, even obsessed. Theatergoers who remember Five Finger Exercise (1958), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Equus (1973), and Lettice and […]
Like a shark hunter who has lost track of the shark, or an adventurer unable to locate the Ark of the Covenant, Steven Spielberg has been drifting for the better part of the decade. In recent years, Spielberg has seemed far removed from the glories of Jaws (1975) or Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), to say nothing of […]
President Donald Trump says he wants to avoid more lives being lost in Lebanon. But doing so will require reversing disastrous policy decisions and rhetoric he and his lieutenants have recently adopted. Trump and his administration should empower Israel, not restrain it. And the president should not give Iran and its proxies, such as Hezbollah, […]
Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (D) is projected to win the Democratic primary in the race to succeed Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in New Mexico, according to Decision Desk HQ. Haaland, who would became the first Native American woman elected to the position, celebrated Tuesday night at a historic plaza in Albuquerque’s Old Town neighborhood,...
GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Democrat Christina Bohannan are projected to face off again in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District in November, according to Decision Desk HQ. Miller-Meeks and Bohannan, a former member of the Iowa House, handily defeated their respective primary opponents, David Pautsch and Travis Terrell, on Tuesday. November will mark the third straight election pitting...
Canada is urging the United States and Mexico to renew a joint trade agreement between the three countries amid ongoing economic and political pressure from the Trump administration. In a Tuesday letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Mexico’s Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, Canada’s minister for U.S. trade Dominic LeBlanc called on the countries...
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and state Rep. Josh Turek (D) are projected to go head-to-head for retiring Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-Iowa) Senate seat this fall, according to Decision Desk HQ. Hinson, a former reporter and state lawmaker who has represented the state’s northeastern corner in Congress since 2021, defeated former state Rep. Jim Carlin (R) for the GOP nomination. Turek, a two-time Paralympic gold medalist who represents a Trump-won...
While Tuesday marks Election Day in California, the results for races across the state may not come in for days, or even weeks. In the Golden State, mail-in ballots are valid so long as they are postmarked by Election Day and arrive to county election offices by June 9. Voters in California can also return...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Alabama Republicans to remove the state’s second majority-Black congressional district for the midterms, handing the party a pickup opportunity in an apparent 6-3 vote. Alabama chastised a lower court for keeping its map blocked, insisting it should move ahead in the wake of the Supreme Court...
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Tuesday said it shot down multiple Iranian drones launched in an “attempted attack” on its regional neighbors. CENTCOM said all of the Iranian ballistic missiles “failed to hit their intended targets.” “Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain...
GOP Rep. Zach Nunn (Iowa) and state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D) are projected to face off in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District in November, according to Decision Desk HQ. Nunn and Trone Garriott ran unopposed in the Republican primary on Tuesday. Nunn, a member of the Iowa Air National Guard, served in the Iowa House...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story GOP senators balk at Trump’s pick of Pulte to head national intelligence Republican senators are expressing bewilderment at President Trump’s choice of Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to serve as the...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia is training abducted Ukrainian children to fight for Moscow, adding to the list of grievances Kyiv has with the Kremlin. “Yes, we have evidence of it,” Zelensky said of Ukrainian children being trained to fight for Russia in a Sunday interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Yes, and they...
She "could not be a Real Housewife," but Michelle Obama says to give her a seat at one of the reality TV franchise's famed, drama-filled reunion shows. The former first lady was asked in a chat with "Lemme Say This" podcast co-hosts Hunter Harris and Peyton Dix released Monday if she had to appear on a reality...
Democratic senators are hoping to add guardrails on the military’s AI use to an annual defense policy bill as the House Armed Services Committee prepares to debate the massive legislation on Thursday. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill Tuesday that would limit AI use for launching nuclear weapons, surveilling Americans and developing or deploying...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that he told President Trump his proposed “anti-weaponization” settlement fund made it difficult for Republicans to push critical legislation through Congress, and that he believed the fund was now “off the table.” “I told him that it was a difficult prospect right now, given our vote tallies,” Johnson told...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will testify before a House Appropriations Committee panel on Tuesday afternoon on oversight of the Justice Department. The hearing comes as the Trump administration has faced heavy scrutiny over its $1.776 billion compensation fund, which would help settle claims between those who say the government wrongfully prosecuted them. The "anti-weaponization"...
