A controversial Republican president imposes stiff tariffs on America's trading partners, seeks to expand America's footprint abroad, keeps out immigrants he's deemed "criminals" and makes it easier to fire government employees.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who is running for governor in the Golden State, said Sunday residents of his state want a “get s--- done approach on lowering prices.” “People are telling me they want a fighter, a protector, but also a get s--- done approach on lowering prices. And that's, frankly, why I'm running,” Swalwell...
The United States Naval Academy fired the commandant of midshipmen, Capt. Gilbert Clark Jr., on Monday due to a “loss of confidence in his ability to effectively lead” the brigade, removing him than his position less than half a year after he assumed the post. Clark, who assumed the role in June, was axed by...
Nearly 20 million people are projected to travel by air this week as officials brace for what some expect to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel week in 15 years. The Department of Transportation on Monday released its 2025 Thanksgiving week flight forecast, showing 19.3 million people projected to take flights in the seven-day period starting...
If Stephen A. Smith is not planning a run for president anytime soon, he’s doing his best impersonation of a buzzworthy politician in the meantime. “I’m not ruling anything out, but I’m not thinking about that right now,” Smith told The Hill during an exclusive interview last week. “I love what I do, and I’m...
President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years. Trump on Friday issued a proclamation exempting facilities known as coke ovens from a rule limiting their releases of pollutants, such as mercury, formaldehyde, soot and dioxins. Coke ovens are chambers where coal is heated to produce coke, which is a fuel...
Offer Vince Shlomi, commonly known as the “ShamWow guy" after his series of towel infomercials, is running for a House seat in Texas with a pitch to “soak up the swamp,” according to primary filing information from the Texas GOP. Shlomi — a former fixture on American infomercials where he hawked “ShamWow” towels, which he touted...
Location, location, location. That’s what matters now on X, because Elon Musk has just rolled out a hugely important new feature, and it’s confirming what some of us have suspected was the case for some time now. It turns out that many of the openly racist and anti-Semitic accounts on X that claim to be...
Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying "things happen", which was seen as a line of decency being crossed.
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the cases against two of President Trump’s political adversaries after finding that the prosecutor Trump handpicked to pursue charges against them was unlawfully appointed. U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney selected by Trump to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), was never eligible...
The first person to contract H5N5 avian influenza, a rare strain of the disease known as bird flu, died in Washington state Friday. The state’s Department of Health said in a release the resident of Grays Harbor County was an “older adult with underlying health conditions” who had been hospitalized in King County since early...
