Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story BLS to issue first jobs report since Trump sacked chief The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday will deliver its first jobs report since President Trump fired its leader in response to disappointing employment data...
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed “maximum protection" for Ukraine’s skies on Thursday during a call as the country continues to come under aerial bombardment by Russia with little progress toward peace talks in recent weeks. Zelensky said he and the president had a “very detailed” conversation after Thursday’s meeting of the so-called...
Texas lawmakers voted late Wednesday to ban transgender people from public restrooms that match their gender identity, sending the measure to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott after nearly a decade of failed attempts. Texas Senate Bill 8 bars transgender people from using multiple-occupancy bathrooms and changing rooms that align with their identity in schools and government-owned...
CNN host Kasie Hunt and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) got into a heated debate over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s stances on vaccines, autism and several other issues that the Health and Human Services secretary defended during a congressional hearing Thursday. "Do you believe Kennedy is right on vaccines?" Hunt asked Mullin of the longtime vaccine skeptic during...
A federal appeals court panel on Thursday temporarily lifted a judge’s order that limited the operations of National Guard troops President Trump activated in Los Angeles. The terse order from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals indicated it is only to provide the panel more time to rule on the administration’s request for an indefinite pause...
President Trump took his fight to fire Federal Trade Commission (FTC) leaders without cause to the Supreme Court on Thursday, a move that could prompt the justices to overrule a key precedent blessing removal protections at the agency for decades. Trump’s bid to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat appointed to the FTC in 2018, comes as...
Chicago has unveiled new tools for immigrants in the community to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will soon begin cracking down on crime and illegal immigration in the Democratic-run city. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) and the city’s Office of Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights (IMRR) rolled out an updated website with...
New York Attorney General Letitia James has appealed a court's ruling that threw out a colossal penalty imposed upon President Trump and his business empire but kept her sprawling civil fraud case against him intact. Her office filed a notice of appeal Thursday with New York’s highest court, signaling its intention to challenge a midlevel appeals...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his tenure as the nation’s top health official during a contentious Senate hearing Thursday, snapping back at lawmakers who pressed him on the recent upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and changes to vaccine policy. During roughly three hours of testimony, the Health and Human Services...