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Meghan Markle’s jam and flower sprinkles are finally here — and so is her inauthenticity

Meghan Markle is living on a higher plane and helping us slobs understand how the other half lives: They recycle jars.

Judge was right to drop charges against Eric Adams — freeing him to do his job AND run for reelection

Judge Dale Ho made the logical decision in permanently dropping corruption charges against Mayor...

Anti-DEI fight just beginning, NIH cuts won’t kill bioscience and other commentary

Amid the Trump anti-DEI push, notes City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald, “private and public...

Stand firm, Speaker Johnson — proxy voting makes a mockery of Congress

For over 200 years, Congress has stood as a deliberative body, its members bound...

Farewell to Val Kilmer — a Hollywood icon and dear friend

Val Kilmer. To the public, a movie star. To me, a devoted friend.

Democracy group sues over stripping of funds by Trump administration

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has sued the Trump administration for cutting off funds for its democracy building overseas — the latest suit from a target of Elon Musk. The lawsuit states the Treasury Department has locked out the endowment from $167 million in congressionally appropriated funds for over a month, claiming it unconstitutionally...

Federal judge presses pause on NIH funding cuts

A federal judge on Wednesday issued an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from imposing a 15 percent cap on research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), finding that plaintiffs had a high likelihood of succeeding on the merits of their argument. U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley granted a nationwide preliminary injunction...

5 takeaways as Trump’s contrarian NIH pick faces senators

President Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faced questions from senators Wednesday on his plans for vaccine research, ideas for pushing down drug prices, and response to recent firings and funding cuts at the agency. Jay Bhattacharya appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing,...

Trump pick says US needs to ‘adapt’ to climate change

Click for more from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump pick says US needs to 'adapt' to climate change President Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office in charge of climate change and air pollution said Wednesday that the U.S. should “adapt to” rather...

Trump delays tariffs on North American cars

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story  Trump exempts autos from new Canada, Mexico tariffs Trump spoke with the leaders of Ford, General Motors and Stellantis on the heels of imposing 25 percent tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada on Tuesday. ©...

Trump says Hamas will be ‘over’ unless they release all hostages

President Trump on Wednesday issued a warning to Hamas to release its remaining hostages after the White House held direct talks with the designated terrorist organization. “’Shalom Hamas’ means Hello and Goodbye - You can choose. Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered,...

Johnson chief of staff arrested on DUI charge after Trump address

Capitol Police arrested House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) chief of staff on DUI charges Tuesday after President Trump’s first address to Congress concluded. Authorities say Hayden Haynes “backed into a parked vehicle” around 11:40 p.m. Johnson’s office said they are aware of the incident and still confident in Haynes’ ability to lead the office team....

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, leans into ‘family name’

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is now using Prince Harry's "family name" as her surname as she promotes her new Netflix series. "This is the Fast Five with Meghan Sussex," Drew Barrymore said as she introduced a segment with Meghan on her eponymous daytime talk show on Wednesday. The move to call the British royal...

Kennedy’s push for vitamins in response to measles outbreak worries physicians

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric on Texas’s measles outbreak is concerning physicians, who fear his public guidance is misguided and verges on being dangerous as he promotes vitamins and steroids as ways of treating infections.  The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) says 159 measles cases have been...

House tees up final vote to censure Al Green for protest at Trump speech

The House on Wednesday teed up a final vote on a resolution to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for disrupting President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. The chamber voted 209-211-1 on a Democratic-led motion to table the censure resolution, falling short of the majority vote needed to block the measure from advancing....

GOP lawmaker says she will criminally refer four Democratic mayors to DOJ

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told four Democratic mayors before the Oversight Committee that she would criminally refer them to the Department of Justice for upholding sanctuary city policies on Wednesday.  "To me after this line of questioning, it's very clear that these policies that you have all implicated are active and alive and well...

Democratic senator recants praise for Trump border ‘progress’

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has retracted his praise for President Trump's progress on illegal immigration but says the drop in illegal border crossings is "good news" for the country.

Trump, Vance and Zelensky: Who should be thanking whom? 

Trump and Vance's insistence that Zelensky should thank them for American support of Ukraine is not based on gratitude but on American security interests, and reducing or ending American assistance to Ukraine would hurt American and Ukrainian security interests.

‘This is not normal’: Who held up the protest sign before Trump’s speech?

Just over the president's shoulder you may have spotted a small, handwritten sign. It read, "This is NOT Normal," in black ink.

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