Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.
Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...
Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...
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 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'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. ...
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...
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...
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...
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at stripping security clearances and government ties to Perkins Coie, a major law firm that did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign. The order, which Trump signed in the Oval Office, directs the attorney general and director of national intelligence to “immediately take steps consistent...
The world’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are infected with Russian disinformation, according to a new study that was published Thursday. The research done by the news monitoring service NewsGuard found that the Moscow-based disinformation network dubbed “Pravda” — which is Russian for “truth” — has been spreading falsehoods on the internet, including attempts...
House Democrats have drafted a resolution to condemn Republican leaders after the GOP’s campaign arm falsely portrayed a Hispanic lawmaker as an “illegal immigrant.” Led by Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), the resolution denounces the attack on Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) by the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) as a “vile” and “xenophobic” smear. It seeks...
A second person has died from measles as the outbreak of the disease in Texas and New Mexico continues to grow, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. The person was unvaccinated and a resident of Lea County, N.M., where at least 10 cases of the disease have been reported. It lies just across...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story US, Ukraine planning peace talks in Saudi Arabia U.S. and Ukrainian officials are looking to set up a meeting next week in Saudi Arabia aimed at structuring the framework for a ceasefire with Russia and establishing...
