A new Kansas law and a Florida bill enact policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them.
How can anyone, after April 9’s U-turn on tariffs, argue that President Donald Trump is following some brilliant strategy? The readiness of conservative commentators and politicians, almost all of them free traders before Trump altered their career incentives, to pretend to see genius in the president’s repeated contradictions is starting to scare me. Trump is […]
“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,” said Charles Foster Kane. But in the telling of Graydon Carter, there was no enterprise more engaging, stimulating, or fun than running a glossy, well-subsidized general-interest magazine at the turn of the millennium. In a droll, trenchant, and surprisingly affable new memoir, When the Going […]
White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro sidestepped a question about whether or not he was present for President Trump's decision to enact a 90-day pause on country-specific tariffs during a heated Thursday interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt. “In a straightforward way, were you in the room with the president when he made this decision?”...
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said he agreed with the Supreme Court’s Thursday decision requiring that the Trump administration facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. “He should be returned and obviously they should follow the law there,” Lawler said at a CNN town hall. However, Lawler went on...
Florida has hit Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Wesley Routh with charges of attempted first-degree murder and terrorism, according to an arrest warrant. In a Thursday post on the social platform X, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said, “My office is officially charging Ryan Routh for attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.” Routh's...
Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) said at a CNN town hall Thursday that she regrets her vote in favor of the Laken Riley Act. “As I’ve thought about it over the past couple of months, I probably would have voted differently. It’s a vote that I regret,” Hayes said at the forum. The congresswoman said she...
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned women about a just-passed House bill that she says could make it harder for them to vote. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — passed Thursday in a 220-208 vote in the House — would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections and impose voter...
A group of Democratic-led states sued the Education Department Thursday in an effort to regain access to hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic relief aid that the department abruptly cut off late last month. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, 16 Democratic attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Lawmakers question Trump's Iran talks President Trump is set to open direct talks with Iran this weekend in a high-stakes push for Tehran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions, raising a chorus of questions and...