White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the teleprompter operator accused of placing bets on President Trump’s speeches has been put on administrative leave. “The individual that was cited in that report is complying with the CFTC and has been placed on
Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff (Ga.) chastised President Trump ahead of the latter’s speech on Thursday, after CBS News reported the president will allege Chinese meddling in U.S. elections. “The world's most famous sore loser will deliver a primetime presidential sour grapes
New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI to analyze every single
The House Budget Committee on Thursday advanced a framework for a third reconciliation bill, marking a key step for GOP leaders as they race to get the measure across the finish line before leaving for a month-long recess in August. The committee voted 20-14 to advance the
Every time we look at one of these races, the evidence presents itself. What was true for Graham Platner and Darializa Avila Chevalier is also true for El-Sayed.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday convened officials from more than 60 countries to raise alarm over what the State Department is warning is a resurgence of far-left political violence globally. Rubio called for an “international response” to the issue at the summit,
Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) on Thursday said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's testosterone screening requirement for U.S. service members is indicative of "homoeroticism." Hegseth announced this week that the Pentagon will give the screenings to service members 30 years and
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Thursday he would not vote to advance Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general if he does not meet with Epstein survivors who have reached out to the Justice Department. Tiillis said he has a “positive predisposition” to Blanche, the acting
Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in 2024, confirmed that he is headed to reality television. Santos will be joining the cast of the upcoming fifth season of Fox’s “Special Forces:
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said Thursday that widespread Democratic support in the House for an amendment to cut off U.S. aid to Israel is “a sign of shifting perceptions.” “I was the only Republican to say that, you know, ‘Yes, we need to not send American tax dollars
The prediction market platform Kalshi said Thursday that it flagged suspicious trades on President Trump's speeches to federal regulators that are reportedly connected to the president's longtime teleprompter operator. ABC News reported that Gabriel Perez, who was first hired
A group of current and former OpenAI employees poured more than $245,000 into a super PAC focused on countering Leading the Future (LTF), a committee funded in part by the AI firm's co-founder and President Greg Brockman. The AI safety super PAC, Guardrails Alliance, announced
Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising. It may look like a defeat on paper for Google, which has spent years resisting
A White House teleprompter operator appears to have made over $100,000 betting on President Trump’s speeches. ABC News, citing unnamed sources, reports that a longtime staffer for the president, Gabriel Perez, was placing bets on Trump’s speeches on the prediction market
Harlan Crow, the billionaire patron of Republican-aligned causes, groups, and politicians, has found a new beneficiary in rightward-shifting Democratic Senator John Fetterman. Crow, who is also a known Nazi memorabilia collector , has long heaped money on conservatives, most
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon on Wednesday accused White House officials of leaking information to MS NOW regarding President Trump's primetime address to the nation. He accused journalist Vaughn Hillyard of speaking with White House staffers off the record about what
Washington state voters will decide in November whether to repeal the state’s newly enacted "millionaires tax" on households earning more than $1 million per year. A spokesperson for Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs confirmed to The Seattle Times on Wednesday that
💪 Plus: Hegseth mandates military testosterone screening {beacon} It’s Thursday. My informal poll yesterday showed me one thing: there is no consensus on whether we should permanently switch to Daylight Saving Time or Standard Time — or keep the current system. Your answers
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) has revealed a drunk driving arrest from more than a decade ago, according to a new report from a local outlet. In the Wednesday report from News 12 New Jersey, Lawler said he was arrested for drunk driving in 2012 on St. Patrick’s Day. According to
A survivor of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein testified at Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing on Thursday, hammering the acting attorney general for meeting with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for nine hours while refusing to give Epstein survivors even one minute of his
Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), a retiring Republican who has become one of the most vocal critics of the Trump administration in his party, delivered harsh words for President Trump's top-priority voter ID legislation on the Senate floor Thursday morning, saying he would stall it if
Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday released a report accusing the Army's immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, of beating, abusing and neglecting detained migrants. The 84-page report titled "'You're Only Getting
To combat the rising national debt, John R. Dearie proposes accelerating economic growth back to its post-World War II average of 3.5 percent by strengthening entrepreneurship through the funding of the CHIPS and Science Act, the enactment of the INVEST Act, and high-skilled
The Senate unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday declaring that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive a pardon. Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison on fraud charges tied to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, officially requested a
The attorney general nominee has roughly two weeks to arrange the meeting.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will speak to reporters Thursday afternoon ahead of President Trump’s highly anticipated primetime address. Trump has in recent days floated potential topics he will discuss, including voting machines and election integrity. The
Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Mullin v. Doe, which allows the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for 1.3 million immigrants.
Two human rights advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration in a bid to block sanctions imposed on the International Criminal Court (ICC) last year, arguing the designations have had a “chilling effect” on their work related to Palestine. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in
Majority Leader John Thune said the speaker’s plans to have a fiscal blueprint finished this summer were “news to me.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky chose to oust Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov after six months, sparking an outcry from the public and protests in Kyiv. Fedorov previously served as Ukraine’s minister of Digital Transformation and brought an expansive background in
A local district attorney in Texas is disputing an FBI assessment that 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's vehicle contained drugs before he was fatally shot by a federal officer in Houston last week. “Based on the information we have regarding who Mr. Salgado was, and just
The cost of the Iran war could well exceed $100 billion now that the conflict has reignited. The Trump administration has not officially released any figures related to the total cost of the war, but U.S. intelligence officials have predicted that the overall cost thus far
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In the latest example of his juvenile leadership style, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took to social media Thursday to endorse a military flyover that dipped below the normal flight path, affected spectators below, and triggered an investigation. During a U.S. Navy Blue Angels
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) is leading progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary race for Sen. Gary Peters’s (D-Mich.) seat by about 7 points, according to a new poll. In the Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll, 41.4 percent of respondents said they would “definitely” or
Iranian officials have asked Yemen's Houthis to block the Red Sea if the U.S. carries out strikes on Tehran's energy sites, according to Reuters. Two senior Iranian sources and a regional source familiar with the matter reportedly told the outlet that the Houthis had been
Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism” on Thursday, as he and diplomats from dozens of countries discussed how to further quash what they see as left-wing terrorism. FBI Director Kash Patel, White House adviser Stephen
A former Federal Reserve senior adviser was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for lying to investigators about secretly sharing sensitive central bank information with Chinese spies, according to the Justice Department. John Harold Rogers, 64, was arrested last year on
Legalization doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing question.
The Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, Mike Collins, has close ties to a white nationalist influencer: his son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II. CNN reports that Scheer is registered to vote at a Collins-owned property, has been featured in Collins’s campaign photos, and was at
Wildfire smoke is blanketing parts of the U.S. this week, bringing hazy, smelly conditions to millions.
The mainstream media has two huge upcoming opportunities to prove that it prioritizes democratic principles over placating President Trump and his base. I hope the journalism community, which has been far too accepting of this autocratic administration, finally rises to the
Decision Desk HQ’s brand-new midterm forecast is raising fresh questions about the fight for the House. The projection cautions that Democratic gains may not be as significant as some expected, reshaping the outlook for both parties heading into the midterms. Join The Hill’s
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI is suing a South Carolina man, accusing him of using its generative chatbot Grok to create child sexual abuse material. The suit, filed in a federal court Tuesday in Texas, alleges Terry Wayne Harwood had at least two Grok accounts
Vice President Vance said Wednesday that some within the Israeli government “hate” the U.S.- Iran deal spurred by the 14-point memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed last month. "There's a lot of talk about how much the Israeli government is influencing American politics.
It marks the latest effort to strike a compromise on the issue between Republicans and Democrats.
More than half of Pennsylvania voters in a new poll want Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) to leave the Democratic Party. Fetterman’s approval rating, at 48 percent, was above water in Quinnipiac University data. But 52 percent of respondents said they’d like to see him depart the
Donald Trump has tasked America’s most elite law enforcement agency with solving the great mystery of why his substandard Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool repair job is already coming undone. The pool was drained last weekend to remedy what Trump initially described as a
Uber agreed Thursday to a nearly $15 billion bid to acquire the German-based Delivery Hero, which will create the largest food-delivery group outside of China. The transaction will double the number of markets where Uber offers mobility and delivery services, Uber CEO Dara
The bottom surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has faded to look more gray than blue after a renovation project concluded last month. The new liner is grayer than when the recipient of a federal contract repainted the bottom of the pool in a bright shade of blue to