Producers of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” are canceling plans to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington next year, pointing to President Trump’s “takeover” of the Washington, D.C., institution and drawing pushback from the new interim executive director.  Lead producer Jeffrey Seller called the Kennedy Center a “sacred” setting that should be “protected from politics.” ...

President Trump on Wednesday told Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser that she must clean homeless encampments in the city. “We have notified the Mayor of Washington, D.C., that she must clean up all of the unsightly homeless encampments in the City, specifically including the ones outside of the State Department, and near the White House,”...

House Republicans are pressing on with plans for a clean six-month stopgap to keep the government funded beyond next week’s shutdown deadline in the face of staunch resistance from Democrats. House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters on Wednesday that Republicans are “running the full-year CR, period,” next week, referring to the party’s...

A majority of Americans in a new poll said that the U.S. and not other countries will feel the brunt of President Trump’s tariffs. When asked about “the cost of tariffs on foreign products imported into the U.S.,” 54 percent of the respondents in The Economist/YouGov poll said they believe “mostly companies and people in...

A federal appeals court Wednesday agreed to the Trump administration’s request to greenlight the president’s firing of U.S. special counsel Hampton Dellinger until the court resolves a legal challenge.  The order from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily lifts a judge’s ruling that found Dellinger’s termination unlawful and returned him to his post as the head...

President Trump on Wednesday urged Republicans to campaign on how Democratic lawmakers conducted themselves during his joint address to Congress a night earlier, when several lawmakers walked out in protest and refused to applaud. "The Democrats should lose the Midterms based on their behavior at last night’s Joint Address to Congress," Trump posted on Truth...

Staffers for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were shut out of the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) headquarters in D.C. on Wednesday, amid an escalating fight over leadership of the agency. Several DOGE workers tried to enter the agency’s office in Washington on Wednesday but were “unable to access” it, the USADF confirmed to...

Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare — Senators on Wednesday pressed Trump’s pick to head the National Institutes of Health about his stances on vaccines and recent firings at the agency.   {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Trump pick for NIH faces senators Senators pressed Trump’s pick to head...

The head of USAID told lawmakers Wednesday his staff was preparing potential criminal referrals against those who allegedly misused taxpayer dollars.

Democrat Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico went off in a curse-laden tirade against Republicans during a House Oversight Committee hearing on sanctuary cities, calling the hearing “utter bulls--t."