Since I was rooting for A Real Pain to win some Oscars, I was thoroughly pleased with how adorable and real Kieran Culkin’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor was. My family has four kids, and I fully support Culkin in his goal of celebrating his Oscar win by having two more. But the film […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday he is prepared to cut off electricity exports to the U.S. if President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods go through. “If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face,” Ford told reporters...
In the first test of the Trump administration's outbreak response, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sending mixed messages about a rapidly spreading measles outbreak in Texas. A longtime vaccine skeptic, Kennedy initially downplayed the outbreak during a Cabinet meeting with President Trump last week, saying it was “not...
A group of oil-producing countries known as OPEC+ will proceed with a long-delayed hike in oil production. Eight countries that have repeatedly delayed production increases will now move forward with them. Those countries are: Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman. They cited “healthy market fundamentals and the positive...
First lady Melania Trump took a swipe at Democratic lawmakers for their low attendance at a roundtable on deepfakes and revenge porn legislation in what marked her first public remarks since President Trump was sworn in to his second term. “I was heartened to learn that Senator [Ted] Cruz (R-Texas) and Senator [Amy] Klobuchar (D-Minn.)...
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said on Monday he is nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Today I will nominate @realDonaldTrump for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Issa wrote in a post on X. “No one deserves it more.” Issa did not specify in his post why he was nominating the president. In a subsequent...
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is confident that the mineral deal between the U.S. and Ukraine will be signed in short order, despite the confrontational meeting between President Trump, Vice President Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that thwarted its finalization last week.
Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin (Md.) and Jasmine Crockett (Texas), both members of the House Judiciary Committee, have launched a probe into the Department of Justice's (DOJ) moves to drop federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D). The lawmakers wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Sunday, accusing the DOJ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday it is investigating multiple false collision warnings on flights approaching Reagan Washington National Airport. In an emailed statement sent to The Hill on Monday, the agency said that multiple “flight crews inbound to Reagan Washington National Airport received onboard alerts Saturday indicating another aircraft was nearby” despite “other...
Senate Democrats from the U.S. West on Monday urged the Department of the Interior to end a funding freeze that could endanger the flow of the Colorado River. The lawmakers, from California, Nevada and Arizona, slammed the Trump administration's day-one executive order that halted disbursements from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act — including $4 billion...