President Trump is attempting to block the BBC's efforts to subpoena his family members for the channel's defense in his ongoing $10 million defamation lawsuit. In Saturday court filings, Trump's lawyers wrote that the British broadcaster's attempts to subpoena the president's children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner — were “cynical” and a...
Negotiations between the United States and Canada fell through this weekend, causing the Trump administration to impose a 50 percent tariff on its northern neighbor. But Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney swiftly responded with his own retaliatory tariff on the U.S. The prime minister said during a Saturday press conference that Canada will “match Washington’s...
U.S. trading partners including China, Japan and Australia pushed back on Friday against President Trump’s latest round of tariffs, arguing the levies are “completely unjustified.” The new import taxes, ranging from 10 percent to 12.5 percent for 60 countries, took effect just after midnight on Friday and cover 99.4 percent of goods coming into the...
[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Hill Insider members can join us live today at 9 am ET as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] Democrats not only can’t decide the order for their 2028 primary calendar, but they also can’t even...
Going into the midterms, Trump’s support across most voter groups has dropped, thanks largely to the war with Iran. Democrats will take advantage of that slump, but their forecast gains in November are unlikely to reflect a long-term political reassignment of the American working class.
In today's issue: ▪ Trump faces roadblocks in Senate ▪ Mixed war powers votes ▪ Saudi Arabia nuclear deal confusion ▪ Google receives major EU fine President Trump’s damaged relationship with Senate Republicans is obstructing his agenda in what could be the final months of full GOP control during his second term. The House left town on...
Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology start-up Hugging Face. The incident bore out years of warnings from the tech and cybersecurity community about the growing capabilities and hypothetical risks artificial intelligence could...
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday that while the nation’s highest court has a conservative majority, it is not a “rubber stamp” for President Trump despite multiple rulings in his favor in major cases. Speaking at a judicial conference hosted by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Kagan said the court has maintained...
A federal judicial panel on Thursday allowed Tennessee to use a new congressional map that divides a majority-Black district in Memphis, rejecting an effort to block the plan ahead of the state’s primary elections in August. A three-judge panel declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the new map, clearing the way for the new...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump ramps up threats of major operations in Iran President Trump told Axios he's nearing a decision on whether to launch a "massive attack" on Iran as the U.S. expands its targets and deploys heavier firepower...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins sought to reassure Americans on Thursday that the nation’s food supply remains safe despite an ongoing Cyclospora outbreak and the spread of the New World screwworm. “The food supply remains the best, the safest, the most affordable in the world, and will continue to do so,” Rollins said in a Thursday...
On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) committee on compounded drugs broke with agency scientists and voted in favor of adding peptides to the list of substances compounding pharmacies can make, despite concerns being raised over the lack of demonstrated benefits. The FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) heard public comments and saw presentations by agency staffers concerning the peptides BPC-157, KPV, TB-500 and MOTS-c. These...
