This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would sue the paper and columnist Nicholas Kristof for defamation over the publication of what he called a "blood...
Thousands of people streamed onto the National Mall for a daylong prayer rally Sunday billed as a "rededication of our country as One Nation under God."
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Sunday that President Trump is considering using arms sales to Taiwan as part of broader U.S.-China negotiations, noting recent past presidents also paused sales.
President Trump on Sunday warned Iran that the "clock is ticking" as peace negotiations between the U.S. and Tehran appear to be at a standstill. “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE” the president wrote in a...
Taiwan’s representative to the US, Alexander Yui, on Sunday said Taipei trusts the Trump administration to deliver on future arms sales after President Trump said he would hold off on a $14 billion arms sale to create leverage in talks with China. Beijing has never formally recognized Taiwan’s sovereignty, and Taiwan has long argued that...
President Trump will sign an executive order centered on medical research from the White House on Saturday morning. The event comes a day after Trump gave remarks in Phoenix focused on his agenda and courting voters ahead of the midterms, garnering the president a standing ovation. It also comes after the administration unveiled its fiscal...
The Iranian regime said early Saturday that it is resuming "strict" control over the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S.’s naval blockade in the critical trading corridor and as the fragile two-week ceasefire nears its end. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that the strait would return to its “previous state” and will be...
President Trump warned late Friday that the U.S. could strike Iran again if the Middle Eastern nation's leaders do not agree to his terms before the temporary ceasefire ends next week. The president told News Nation, The Hill’s sister network, on board Air Force One that if no deal is reached by Wednesday's deadline, “we’ll...
The feud between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV this week marked yet another unprecedented moment in history, with the president becoming the first U.S. leader to publicly lock horns with the head of the Roman Catholic church in modern times. Leo’s status as the first American pope makes the episode even more unique. For...
President Trump is skipping the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual convention this weekend, his second snub in as many years of an organization long seen as a key political ally for Republicans. The move marks his second consecutive absence from the NRA’s annual meeting — held this year on April 16-19 in Houston, Texas —...
Tens of millions of dollars are being funneled into different sides of a high-profile redistricting referendum in Virginia as voters consider a new congressional map that could net Democrats as many as four seats ahead of the November midterm elections. The state is holding a referendum on Tuesday, where Democratic lawmakers are asking voters if they can temporarily...
President Trump's selection of a longtime civil servant and public health veteran to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the strongest signal yet that the administration is shifting away from a rhetoric of vaccine skepticism ahead of the midterm elections. Trump on Thursday tapped Erica Schwartz, the deputy surgeon general during his first term, to...
The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and extended a waiver on sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products amid the Iran war, just days after a top Cabinet official said the U.S. would not be doing so. A license allowing countries to purchase Russian oil from Friday through May 16 was posted on the Treasury...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday said he demands answers from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding comments the secretary made in an interview in 2024 about Black children on certain Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medications being "re-parented." "We’ve known RFK Jr. has been unfit to serve as Secretary, but...
