Addressing the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday, Vice President JD Vance condemned European governments over their increasing restrictions on free speech. Let’s be clear: the Trump administration is far from an archon of free speech majesty. President Donald Trump loves to engage in normally frivolous defamation lawsuits that are designed to deter critical […]

Click for the latest from The Hill {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump canceled a report on American nature. The authors are still trying to share it. Researchers behind a massive report on the state of nature in America are seeking to release it despite President Trump’s cancellation of...

Infant mortality has gone up in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study.   Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of California, Berkeley, and two other academic institutions looked at live birth data across all 50 states from...

Multiple outbreaks of the measles have been reported so far this year, with one outbreak in Texas ballooning from six cases to 48 in just over a week.

Presented by March of Dimes {beacon} Evening Report TRUMP FIRST 100 DAYS © Matthias Schrader, Associated Press Trump officials look for one-two punch in Europe PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM sent a warning shot to global allies Friday, bringing their disruptive and confrontational style to the world stage. In a blistering speech at the...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fired nearly 400 employees after a directive from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The EPA told The Hill in a written statement that it has “terminated” 388 probationary employees — meaning workers who started working at the agency within the past year.  It said the firings came “after...

The Trump administration is moving to delay the implementation of Biden-administration rules that require household appliances to be more efficient — carrying on a frequent rallying cry for President Trump. The Energy Department on Friday afternoon announced it would “postpone” Biden’s efficiency rules for lightbulbs, clothes washers and dryers, air conditioners, air compressors and gas-powered water...

President Trump supercharged his overhaul of government agencies this week that included a fresh round of a widespread firings. Trump signed an order this week indicating agency heads initiate large scale “reductions in force,” also known as RIFs, as part of implementing initiatives spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The order targets...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv values President Trump’s “determination” to end the war in Eastern Europe after meeting with Vice President Vance in Germany on Friday.  Zelensky said he had a “good” meeting with Vance, who was in Munich alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s Russia-Ukraine special envoy Keith Kellogg, and that...

Only about a third of Americans trust artificial intelligence (AI), according to new data from the Edelman Trust Barometer. Just 32 percent of people in the U.S. said they trust the rapidly developing technology, according to the annual global survey’s “Insights for the Technology Sector." American views on AI stand in sharp contrast to...