"Little House on the Prairie" star Melissa Gilbert is hitting back at Megyn Kelly after the conservative commentator expressed concern that Netflix would "wokeify" its reboot of the classic Western TV drama. "@Netflix if you wokeify Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project," Kelly wrote on X...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday denounced President Trump for saying federal efforts to promote diversity are to blame for this week’s deadly crash between a military helicopter and a commercial passenger plane just outside Washington. Jeffries said the president’s comments were “irresponsible” and “shameful,” especially since the recovery efforts are still underway...
More than 40 bodies have been recovered from the Potomac River after a deadly mid-air collision sent an Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines plane diving into the icy water earlier this week, officials confirmed to The Hill's partner station NewsNation. Around 67 people are feared dead — including 60 passengers and four crew...
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's found a way of knocking out her worries: landing blows on life's aggravations in the boxing ring. “I take boxing lessons,” Jackson said in an interview this week with The Associated Press. "And I think that helps you to really get out any frustrations," the 54-year-old liberal justice said. Boxing...
President Trump will meet with the CEO of chipmaking powerhouse Nvidia on Friday as the White House reportedly mulls tightening chip exports to China, a White House official confirmed to The Hill. The meeting with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang comes as competition between the U.S. and China heats up over artificial intelligence (AI) development amid...
President Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, is delivering an in-person message to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro that there will be consequences if detained Americans are not released and Venezuelan “criminals and gang members” deported from the U.S. are not repatriated. Grenell is expected to meet with Maduro on Friday. “He is there on...
President Trump vowed to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on countries that back a new reserve currency among the BRICS countries, a group that includes Russia and China. Trump's Truth Social post on Thursday reiterated threats he made in late November, before returning to the White House. “The idea that the BRICS Countries...
A federal appeals court ruled that a federal law banning firearms stores from selling handguns to adults between 18 years old and 20 years old is unconstitutional. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law years ago, but on Thursday found the law unconstitutional under the conservative-majority Supreme Court’s expanded interpretation of the Second...