President Trump will travel to Geneva, Ohio, on Tuesday to attend the Patriot Games, a high school athletic competition that he helped launch as part of America's 250th anniversary.
President Trump praised the United Nations (UN) Security Council for approving a U.S.-based plan to rebuild Gaza on Monday. The 15-member council voted 13-0 in favor of the resolution, with Russia and China abstaining. “Congratulations to the World on the incredible Vote of the United Nations Security Council,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform...
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Monday he “will be stepping back from public commitments” amid revelations he communicated frequently with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” Summers...
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against the state of California on Monday, alleging its law banning federal immigration officers from wearing face masks is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in the Central District of California against California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D), says that the state does not have...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump touts economy at McDonald's conference President Trump told attendees at the McDonald’s Impact Summit on Monday that they are “so damn lucky” he won the 2024 presidential election, arguing the economy would have been a...
The House advanced a resolution on Monday brought forth by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) condemning Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García (D-Ill.) for the controversial timing of his retirement announcement, which ensured his chief of staff would be the only candidate on the Democratic primary ballot in the race to succeed him. The motion to table...
Martha White, the granddaughter of “Charlotte’s Web” author E.B. White, slammed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for using the novel’s name to refer to its Charlotte, N.C., immigration enforcement operation. The Trump administration has called the endeavor “Operation Charlotte’s Web.” “He believed in the rule of law and due process,” Martha White said in...
President Trump told attendees at the McDonald’s Impact Summit on Monday that they are “so damn lucky” he won the 2024 presidential election, arguing the economy would have been a "catastrophe" under former Vice President Kamala Harris. “Welfare was going up. Everything was going up. Government jobs were going up, real jobs were going down,”...
President Trump’s abrupt U-turn on the Epstein files looks like an effort to take the sting out of an imminent defeat on Capitol Hill. But the Epstein matter is just one of several issues that have caused discontent among Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) base in recent months, feeding questions about whether the president’s...
The Justice Department’s prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey is facing death by a thousand procedural errors. Federal judges overseeing the criminal case have increasingly raised concerns about the department's efforts to investigate and indict the adversary of President Trump, from the evidence presented to grand jurors to the prosecutor who made the government’s case. ...
Presented by the American Association for Cancer Research — People are going to be paying more for health insurance next year. {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Medicare Part B premiums are rising. So are private health insurance costs. Americans are going to be paying more for health insurance next year. As rising...
More than 74,000 people have had their lives disrupted by Trump administration cuts to clinical trials supported by the National Institutes of Health, according to a new report released Monday. From the end of February to August, the administration’s unprecedented broadside against NIH resulted in funding losses for 383 clinical trials, new research published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found. The cuts impacted trials disproportionately studying...
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that President Trump “put the gun on the table” with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro amid tensions between the two countries. “I mean, do you think these boat strikes are stopping the flow of drugs to the United States, for one, and do you think they are doing...
