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Trump pressures 4 GOP senators ahead of anti-Canadian tariff vote, accusing them of ‘TDS’

President Donald Trump pressured Sens. McConnell, Paul, Collins, and Murkowski in a Truth Social post ahead of an upcoming vote to scuttle his Canadian tariffs.

Lawmakers take action after report shows Biden-era SBA failed to probe 2 million alleged COVID aid fraudsters

Small Business Committee chairs Joni Ernst and Roger Williams plan to launch an effort to help bring COVID fraudsters to justice by extending the statute of limitation a decade.

Inside the UN’s censorious underbelly

Whether the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who sadly withdrew her nomination for the post last week, or another qualified individual, the message from the Trump administration has already been made clear to bureaucrats at the global body that the United States will not be going along with radical […]

McMahon meeting with House Democrats over Education Department layoffs

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is having a meeting with House Democrats Wednesday over their concerns surrounding the layoffs at the Department of Education, which she and President Trump have been vocal about trying to eliminate entirely.   Rep. Mark Takano (Calif.) and at least ten other Democratic members will meet with McMahon at 9:30 a.m....

As Colorado River declines, states are failing to tap an alternate resource

Five out of seven Colorado River basin states are failing to maximize a critical resource that could help alleviate the region’s longstanding water crisis, a new report found. Across all the states, just 26 percent of treated municipal wastewater is being reused, according to the research, released by the University of California Los Angeles, along...

Loyalty over merit: Pete Hegseth’s dangerous military makeover

Pete Hegseth wasn't selected by President Trump for courage, but for compliance. 

Trump’s third-term tease is a brilliant political strategy

Since Trump loves generating controversy that guarantees headlines, an illegal third term — or at least ambiguity about one — fits the bill.

CBS files motions to dismiss Trump $20 billion lawsuit

CBS News’ parent company Paramount filed a pair of motions in district court to dismiss President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit stemming from the “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Harris right before the 2024 presidential election. One of two motions, both filed in U.S. district court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday,...

Trump signs executive order creating bitcoin reserve

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to create a government reserve of bitcoin along with a "digital asset stockpile" in the administration's latest embrace of the cryptocurrency industry. According to the order, the U.S. government will use the bitcoin already seized by federal law enforcement while disrupting financial crimes to establish the reserve....

Former Olympic snowboarder now on FBI’s 10 most wanted list

Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was added to the FBI’s 10 most wanted list on Thursday for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking network. Authorities have accused him of shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States. Wedding is a Canadian...

SpaceX rocket explodes, causing some flight delays

SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded minutes after liftoff, with debris reaching Philadelphia and flights being delayed in a couple of states, including Florida. This was the rocket’s eighth test flight. Similarly to the previous attempt, it ended in the 400-foot-tall rocket disintegrating Thursday. It appeared some of the engines had failed and the rocket was spinning out...

Murphy fears more Medicare pay cuts will kill private practice  

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) worries that if nothing is done to curb Medicare payment cuts to physicians, doctors will no longer be able to afford to run their own private practices.   “We’re at a crucible where if we don’t fight these cuts now, if we don’t get rid of them, we don’t reverse them,...

Canadian senator challenges Donald Trump Jr. to charity boxing match over ‘bogus tariffs’

Canadian Sen. Patrick Brazeau challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a charity boxing match over the “bogus” tariffs implemented this week by his father, President Trump. "I know, I still can't believe it myself. But I no longer smoke and have been sober for almost 5 years," the Quebec-based senator said in a Thursday post on...

Trump reverses with tariff exemptions

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story  Trump reverses on Canada, Mexico tariffs with exemptions President Trump, in his latest reversal on tariffs, signed off on exemptions for imports from Canada and Mexico that are covered under a 2020 North American trade agreement....

Ontario will tariff electricity going to 3 US states on Monday, premier says

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said three states would face tariffs on electricity after a week of President Trump’s swipes at Canada with fluctuating trade policies. “I love Americans. It's been 20 years of my life. But in saying that, no, we're going to put a 25 percent tariff on electricity coming from Ontario to Michigan,...

New Zealand fires top diplomat in London over Trump remarks

New Zealand's top diplomat in the United Kingdom was fired after making comments about President Trump in London earlier this week. New Zealand's high commissioner to the U.K., Phil Goff, was terminated from his role after questioning Trump's knowledge of history during an event hosted by an international affairs think tank, Chatham House, on Tuesday. ...

Trump: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Rachel Maddow ‘should be forced to resign’

President Trump said MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow “should be forced to resign” while criticizing the network for low show ratings. “Worse than CNN is ‘MS-DNC,’ which is the worst. And the good news is very few people watch them anymore,” he told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office. “They have lost such...

Trump faces new economic uncertainties amid trade battles

President Trump is facing slumping consumer confidence and deepening concern among business leaders ahead of the first jobs report of his new administration. Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report. But tumbling markets in the...

Judge orders release of some foreign aid payments by Monday

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to release some foreign aid payments by Monday evening to U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors and nonprofits who challenged the freeze, a decision he called the “first concrete step” toward compliance with his previous order to resume existing foreign aid contracts. U.S. District...

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