Once upon a time on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart was seen as more honest than the most milquetoast anchor on cable news. The host of The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015, whose favorite pastime might have been mocking politicians, especially Republicans, was once described as “the Most Trusted Man in America” and commanded an […]

A Democratic lawmaker said that artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes are a bipartisan issue in the wake of reports of a recent spread of AI-generated graphic images of pop superstar Taylor Swift on social media. “What’s happened to Taylor Swift is nothing new,” Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said in a post on X, the platform formerly...

Babies born to mothers who contracted a COVID-19 infection while pregnant have “unusually high rates” of respiratory distress at birth or shortly after, a Nature Communications study found. While studies have shown contracting COVID during pregnancy has been associated with adverse outcomes for both mothers and newborn babies, the authors of the study found there...

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) pushed for increased aid to Ukraine in remarks on the Senate floor Thursday. “This isn’t a choice between sending funding to Ukraine or not sending funding to Ukraine,” Cardin said. “The choice is between sending American dollars to fight [Russian President Vladimir] Putin now or sending American...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved Sweden’s accession into the Western security alliance NATO, Sweden's Prime Minister announced on Thursday, “Welcome Türkeiye’s approval of the ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession. With this, a key milestone has been reached in Sweden’s path towards NATO membership,” Ulf Kristersson posted on X, the platform formerly known as...

A federal judge handling cases involving Jan. 6 defendants starkly criticized some of the language used to describe the 2021 riot at the Capitol, saying in a court filing that he is “shocked” by rhetoric describing those convicted of crimes that day as "hostages." Judge Royce Lamberth said such rhetoric falsely portray the events of...

Actor Dean Cain criticized President Biden in an online post over the president’s pledge to restore Roe v. Wade after the Supreme Court struck down the longstanding abortion access law nearly two years ago. Biden hosted his first campaign rally of the year in Manassas, Va., on Tuesday where he zeroed in on former President...

Former President Trump said Thursday he did not support a push by allies at the Republican National Committee (RNC) to effectively make him the party's presumptive nominee, even as former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley remains in the primary race. "While I greatly appreciate the Republican National Committee (RNC) wanting to make me...

Two owners of an iconic Philly cheesesteak shop were sentenced to prison for tax fraud Thursday. Nicholas Lucidonio, 57, and Anthony Lucidonio Sr., 84, who owned and operated Tony Luke’s, a cheesesteak restaurant in South Philadelphia, have both been sentenced to 20 months in prison for “their decade-long conspiracy to defraud the IRS,” according to...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story NIH pressed over move to drop 'lengthen life' from mission A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is raising concerns over a new proposal to change the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) mission statement to drop its stated goal to...