Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) said he is traveling to El Salvador on Wednesday to check on the status of a deported legal resident. Kilmar Abrego Garcia made headlines after being removed by the Trump administration in an “administrative error” and sent to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison to be detained. “Following...
Former President Biden said the Trump administration has “done so much damage and so much destruction” since taking office, accusing the White House of having "taken a hatchet" to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and “breaking things” as he delivered his first remarks since leaving the Oval Office earlier this year. “Fewer than 100 days,...
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and 18 other Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee pressed the Trump administration to urgently provide aid for those impacted by the deadly Burma earthquake last month. In a Tuesday letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the group addressed their concerns amid the “shuttering” of the United States Agency...
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the Commerce Department to open a national security investigation that would lay the groundwork for the administration to impose tariffs on critical minerals, the latest sector to potentially face tariffs as part of Trump’s growing trade war. Trump signed an order initiating the probe, known as...
The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities. A source in the West Wing confirmed the changes to The Hill on Tuesday evening and said moving forward, the press pool...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in the face of growing antitrust concerns and competing interests with Facebook. The revelation comes from a 2018 document that was displayed as Zuckerberg took the stand in the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and...
A new executive order signed Tuesday by President Trump directs Congress to change a key provision of the law allowing Medicare drug price negotiations, a move that would fix one of the drug industry’s biggest complaints. The order applies to what the industry calls the Inflation Reduction Act’s “pill penalty,” where small molecule drugs — typically...
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the ranking member on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is calling for an investigation into the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to data at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Department of Labor (DOL). In a letter addressed to Luiz Santos, the acting inspector general for DOL,...
New York Attorney General Letitia James faces mortgage fraud allegations stemming from property purchases decades ago in which she allegedly listed her father as her husband.