Demonstrators gathered Thursday on the steps of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building for a “die-in” over proposed funding cuts at the agency that could devastate programs addressing LGBTQ health disparities. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sought to radically reshape the department and its approach to health care, including through...
Evening Report is The Hill's evening newsletter. Sign up here or in the box below. DEMOCRATS ARE GRAPPLING with internal divisions as primary season gets underway ahead of next year’s midterm elections. David Hogg, a vice chairman at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is facing pushback over his group Leaders We Deserve, which says it will spend $20 million to back...
China canceled 12,000 metric tons of United States pork shipments amid a high-stakes trade standoff between the superpowers, according to data released Thursday. China, one of the biggest U.S. trading partners, axed 12,000 metric tons of U.S. pork orders, the data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows. The move represents the biggest cancellation...
The Defense Department will resume providing gender-affirming care for service members, a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate transgender individuals from the U.S. military. A Pentagon memo dated Monday and revealed Thursday states the department will restore surgical procedures and cross-sex hormone therapy to individuals, including dependents of troops, as first reported by Politico....
Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Trump, sharply criticized Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader and close Trump ally Elon Musk as putting his own interests before the country’s. Bannon spoke at Semafor’s World Economy Summit on Wednesday about the reported shouting match between Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Semafor Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith...
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has blocked a portion of President Donald Trump's March 25 executive order on election integrity.
"Wasteful" contracts, including one for "problem-solving services," worth millions of dollars have been terminated over the past several days, DOGE said.
Citing combat readiness over environmental mandates, the Navy has officially scrapped its climate action plan championed under the Biden administration.
Orange County, California, District Attorney Todd Spitzer said there was no plea deal made in the case of an illegal immigrant convicted of manslaughter after the death of two teens.