The first lady visited sick children at a Washington, D.C.-area hospital Friday for a heartwarming Christmas celebration, sharing hugs and holiday wishes with patients.
The Tennessee special election is reviving a long-simmering debate between the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party over what kind of candidates to nominate. Democrat Aftyn Behn fell short of flipping the seat in the deep-red 7th Congressional District on Tuesday night after running largely on the issue of affordability. She was attacked...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Republicans have “a real problem” after the party eked out a narrow victory in a ruby red Tennessee district in Tuesday’s special election. “I'm always concerned, to be honest,” Burchett told CNN’s Manu Raju when asked about the race, which was more competitive than in recent years. “We got a...
Some Senate Republicans are expressing frustration that their conference hasn’t been able to unify behind a health care plan ahead of a vote next week on a Democratic proposal to extend health insurance premium subsidies that will expire in January. Republicans are worried the subsidies, and health insurance and costs more broadly, could become a...
President Trump said on Wednesday he supports the release of the video showing the second boat strike that killed the remaining survivors in a Sept. 2 Caribbean operation. "I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we'd certainly release, no problem,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Every boat we knock out,...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of telling "blatant lies" to write her postcampaign memoir "107 Days" and "cover her a--," according to a profile about the governor published in The Atlantic on Wednesday. Reporter Tim Alberta described Shapiro as "between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts" about...
Policymakers in Washington are grappling with key questions about how to regulate AI and deal with its potential downstream effects, as the technology continues to develop at a rapid pace. Current and former lawmakers and industry stakeholders joined The Hill’s "AI in America Summit" on Wednesday to discuss the future of AI, where the difficulty of legislating on the technology, the prospect of China’s AI ambitions and the high energy demands of data...
Navy Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley will head to Capitol Hill on Thursday to brief senior lawmakers on the Trump administration’s controversial strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. Questions have been swirling in recent days about the details of the Sept. 2 attack, which The Washington Post reported last Friday required...
Rideshare company Uber has started the use of robotaxis in Dallas, according to a Wednesday press release. The company said it had announced Wednesday that customers in Dallas now had access to an Avride robotaxi, which it called “a brand-new way to ride with Uber.” “The service will be available throughout 9 square miles of...
President Trump’s name has been added to the exterior of the U.S. Institute of Peace Building in the nation’s capital. NBC News first reported that “Donald J. Trump” was added to the sign outside of the building. The Institute of Peace was among the organizations targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and subsequently...
The holidays always feel like a little exhale. A moment to pause, reset and dream about where the next passport stamp might come from. As the year winds down, Americans sketch out future escapes, imagining where they might land when life allows for a fresh beginning on the other side of the ocean. That spirit...
Costco on Friday joined more than a dozen companies that have sued the Trump administration to request refunds for tariffs currently being challenged at the Supreme Court. In April, President Trump announced sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs on foreign trade partners, setting particularly high rates on countries he felt were treating the United States unfairly. “The United...
The Trump administration is planning to block Democratic-led states from accessing billions of dollars in federal funding under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if they continue refusing to comply with the agency’s demand for data about food stamp recipients, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday. “As of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday backed President Trump’s decision to provide a preemptive pardon for Rep. Henry Cuellar, suggesting the corruption charges against the longtime Texas Democrat were so “thin” that he wouldn’t have been convicted anyway. “I don't know why the president decided to do this, [but] I think the outcome...
