As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains without funding, air travel nationwide has been impacted. Employees of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), which is housed within DHS, are working without pay as of early Saturday morning — when the funding lapse began. According to DHS’s shutdown contingency plan published in September, just more than...
Fed Chair Jerome Powell will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon after the Federal Reserve announced it would once again keep interest rates where they are at a level of 4.25 to 4.5 percent. The vote, however, saw the first double dissent from Fed board officials in more than 30 years. The central bank's decision comes as...
The Trump administration has frozen $108 million to Duke University just days after it launched an investigation into alleged race-based discrimination at the institution. The frozen funds from the National Institutes of Health will affect the Duke University School of Medicine, according to a senior administration official. The Hill has reached out to...
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it has secured commitments from more than 60 health and information technology companies to participate in a plan to make Medicare patient data more accessible. Leaders from tech companies including Google, Amazon and OpenAI, along with providers and health systems including Cleveland Clinic and UnitedHealth Group, will meet with...
More than a dozen Republican-led states are urging Congress to ban abortion shield laws, pieces of legislation passed in states where abortion is legal that protect abortion providers from liability for violating anti-abortion laws in other states. A total of 15 GOP attorneys general signed and sent a letter to congressional leadership this week requesting...
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Senate’s president pro tempore and chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, said he was “offended” and “disappointed” by the tirade President Trump unleashed against him on social media over the obscure Senate tradition of respecting blue-slip objections to nominees tapped to serve as district court judges and U.S. attorneys. ...
State police in Connecticut say former WWE CEO Vince McMahon was issued a misdemeanor summons for reckless driving after allegedly causing a multi-vehicle crash last week.
LIVE Video: NTSB begins hearings on deadly DCA crash Texas Republicans are showing their hand as they try to force midcycle redistricting. They unveiled new congressional maps on Wednesday that create five new GOP-friendly districts. President Trump's economy faces a big day Wednesday, with a strong second-quarter GDP report and the Federal Reserve's latest interest...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said during a recent interview that there is still “plenty of horse-trading left to do” when it comes to certain aspects of the trade framework between the U.S. and the European Union (EU). “And do I expect to continue to be talking to the European Commission's trade people? Yeah, they called...
If you are willing to starve thousands and thousands of innocent people in order to punish terrorists hiding among them, where does your penchant for collective punishment and retaliatory violence end?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will speak to reporters Wednesday afternoon about Democrats' efforts to force the Trump administration to release more files on Jeffrey Epstein. Schumer will be joined by Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.), the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and others who have spoken out about the controversy surrounding...
Amazon has agreed to pay at least $20 million to The New York Times Co. for the right to use its journalism to feed the tech giant's artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The deal between the two companies was first announced in May, but The Wall Street Journal reported the details of the payment plan Wednesday....
The Secret Service is conducting a “personnel investigation” after an agent attempted to smuggle his wife on board a plane headed to Scotland for President Trump’s recent trip. “The aircraft, operated by the U.S. Air Force was being used by the Secret Service to transport personnel and equipment,” a Secret Service spokesperson told The Hill....
Broadcaster Bob Costas on Tuesday said the Manhattan gunman who shot and killed four people at a New York office tower on Tuesday had unreasonable grievances with the National Football League (NFL). Authorities said shooter Shane Tamura ended up in the wrong office but was targeting the NFL headquarters to address chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),...
