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Appeals court strikes down Trump’s tariff power in major decision

A federal appeals court ruled many of President Trump's tariffs are illegal, dealing a potentially crippling blow to his trade agenda.

Appeals court finds Trump’s sweeping tariffs unconstitutional but leaves them in place for now

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs but left in place for now his effort to build a protectionist wall around the American economy.

Racist sign prompts BET co-founder Robert Johnson to give Winsome Earle-Sears’ campaign $500K

Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, has donated $500,000 to Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome-Sears' gubernatorial campaign after she was targeted by a racist sign at a school board meeting.

Social Security’s chief data officer resigns, cites ‘culture of panic and dread’

Social Security Chief Data Officer Charles Borges submitted a Friday resignation letter days after citing policy violations in a whistleblower report documenting the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) decision to upload sensitive data to a “vulnerable cloud environment.” “Recently, I have been made aware of several projects and incidents which may constitute violations of federal...

Public health in ‘uncharted waters’ amid CDC tumult

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story CDC upheaval pushes public health into ‘uncharted waters’ In less than a week, the public health sector has been plunged into chaos as leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leave the agency amid heightened...

Who is Jim O’Neill, Trump’s new CDC director

The White House quickly named a new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out Director Susan Monarez this week. Jim O'Neill, a senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official with deep ties to President Trump donor Peter Thiel,...

Missouri governor calls special session to address redistricting

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) has called for a special session for the state Legislature to address redistricting, queuing it up to potentially be the next state to redraw its congressional district lines.  Kehoe announced his decision Friday in a release, saying the Legislature will convene Wednesday and unveil his map proposal. As expected, the...

Macron: Putin ‘played’ Trump if no Zelensky meeting commitment by Monday

French President Emmanuel Macron issued a reminder Friday of President Trump's deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "If that doesn't happen by Monday, the deadline set by President Trump, it means that once again President Putin played President Trump," Macron said Friday during a joint press conference...

Federal appeals court rejects Trump’s emergency tariffs

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Trump’s assertion that emergency powers justify his worldwide tariffs, a blow to his efforts to refashion global trade. In a 7-4 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the tariffs were not authorized by the statute Trump cited...

Alligator Alcatraz conversion could cost Florida $218M

The state of Florida could lose $218 million after a judge ordered the closure of Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility based in the Everglades that was once a training airport. The site was created with funding from the Florida Division of Emergency Management and was quickly retrofitted to house people detained for federal immigration purposes. ...

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