Gold demand from AI infrastructure and semiconductors is climbing even as prices hit historic highs, and tech firms aren't switching to cheaper metals.
Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Trump tries to avoid midterm losses ▪ DOJ explains Epstein files redactions ▪ Obama responds to Trump’s video post ▪ RFK Jr. reaches one-year mark leading HHS President Trump and congressional Republicans face rising pressure as they stare down a fast-approaching midterm election that could...
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday that President Trump remains intent on acquiring Greenland. "I think the desire from the U.S. president is exactly the same. He’s very serious about this," Frederiksen said at the Munich Security Conference, according to the BBC. Throughout December and January, the president raised his view that the U.S....
In an interview that aired Sunday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) urged his party to take a more aggressive governing posture to fight back against the Trump administration and regain popularity. “There’s something that we have to make sure that we do better and that’s actually meet people where they are and move with a...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) declined to say whether President Trump is racist in an interview released Sunday, just over a week after a video depicting the Obamas as apes posted to the president’s Truth Social account sparked bipartisan backlash. “I think that’s a question for President Trump,” Moore, shaking his head, told CBS News’s...
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...
Late Saturday evening and early Sunday morning, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) criticized the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) justification for redacting certain names from the Jeffrey Epstein files. Mace, one of four Republicans to sign the initial discharge petition that brought the Epstein Files Transparency Act to the House floor last year, wrote Saturday in a...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) dismissed concerns Sunday over President Trump going after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) earlier this week, chalking it up to a friendly disagreement. The president called the Oklahoma governor a “RINO” — or a "Republican in name only" — on Wednesday after Stitt announced that the National Governors Association (NGA), which...
The cryptocurrency industry is ramping up its spending ahead of the midterm elections after accumulating a massive war chest in the wake of several key wins in 2024. The industry’s leading super PAC network, Fairshake, had more than $193 million in cash on hand at the start of 2026 and has already announced several of its targets this cycle — boosting Rep. Barry Moore...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) reiterated Sunday that he will not support Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, until the Department of Justice (DOJ) concludes its probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. “I've tried to make it very clear that I have no intention of supporting any confirmation of any Fed board...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Sunday slammed Democrats over the current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, calling their actions “political theater.” “What is actually happening right now with the Democrat Party by this political theater, by shutting down DHS for something that you even admitted yourself can't be done. They're not stopping [Immigration and...
As he departed the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) sharply criticized President Trump for destabilizing NATO. Kelly wrote on the social platform X that it took the president “less than a year to practically destroy” the NATO alliance, adding that Russia and China are benefiting from Trump’s threats to European countries....
Former President Obama in an interview published Saturday criticized the actions of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis while praising those protesting their presence in the city. Obama told host Brian Tyler Cohen on his “No Lie” podcast that federal agents have acted in a “rogue” manner in Minneapolis, where immigration enforcement officers shot and killed...
