President Trump delivered an address to the nation on Wednesday night intended to mark the close of his first year back in power. Trump appeared before the cameras in the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room with his poll ratings at a mediocre ebb, and the issue of
Most Americans say President Trump’s use of presidential power is going too far, according to a new poll. Quinnipiac University found that 54 percent of voters think Trump is going too far with his presidential authority while 37 percent think he is handling it about right.
President Trump on Wednesday sought to make the case that his administration has made progress on key issues in a rare primetime address amid slumping poll numbers and persistent questions about affordability. The president addressed the nation from the Diplomatic Reception
The United States military on Wednesday killed four alleged “narco-terrorists” during a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean. The attack follows a series of strikes launched this year, bringing the total death toll to 99. “On Dec. 17, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth,
President Trump said Wednesday his administration would send $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks to members of the military, crediting tariffs and the passage of a massive GOP tax and spending bill earlier this year. Trump said during a primetime address to the nation that 1.4
While addressing the nation Wednesday, President Trump announced that military service members will be receiving checks for $1,776, a nod to the year of the nation's founding.
President Trump on Wednesday evening is expected to give an address to the nation from the White House. “I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then. It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME!” the president wrote Tuesday on Truth Social, giving few details.
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Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.) said that House Democratic leadership will introduce a discharge petition in January to force action on a bill banning stock trading by members of Congress, the president, the vice president and their immediate families. The effort comes after some
Over five days have passed since a gunman killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University, with authorities still searching for the shooter. Authorities have released photos and video of a person of interest in Saturday’s shooting in Providence, R.I., and the FBI
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) has placed a hold on the nomination of Adm. Kevin Lunday to serve as head of the Coast Guard after the service backtracked on keeping swastikas and nooses labeled as hate symbols, instead moving forward by listing the images as “potentially divisive.”
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday found that President Trump's approval rating slipped to nearly its lowest point in his second term. The poll found that 39 percent of American respondents said they approve of Trump's handling of the presidency while 59 percent said they
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The House passed a bill Wednesday sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) that would criminalize gender-affirming procedures and medical care for minors. Greene had secured a deal with leadership to bring her bill to the floor in exchange for her support of a rule
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care The Big Story ACA subsidies set to expire. Moderate Republicans rebel Congress is poised to leave town for the rest of the year without addressing the ObamaCare enhanced subsidies, letting them expire on Dec. 31. But
Navy Adm. Frank Bradley told lawmakers Wednesday he was open to the broader release of the video of the U.S. military’s early September lethal strikes against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, apparently bucking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said a day
Maryland lawmakers on Wednesday voted to create a commission to study slavery reparations, overriding a veto from Gov. Wes Moore (D) earlier this year. “This topic isn’t easy, but, again, without formal study, reparations risk being dismissed as symbolic or unconstitutional,
House Republicans on Wednesday passed a partisan package of health care policies designed to provide a conservative alternative to extending the expiring ObamaCare subsidies. The legislation has little chance of passing through the Senate, however, and it does not address the
The purple-district Pennsylvanian had staked out an aisle-crossing persona without impeding GOP prerogatives. Until Wednesday.
The House shot down a pair of Democratic-led resolutions Wednesday designed to curtail President Trump’s strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the administration’s “hostilities within or against Venezuela.” The first resolution, brought by House Foreign Affairs
Two children of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, thanked people Wednesday for "the outpouring of condolences, kindness and support" they have received since their parents were found killed in an apparent stabbing Sunday. "Words cannot even begin to
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Senate confirms Musk ally Isaacman to lead NASA The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jason Isaacman to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) after a contentious and winding road. © AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
An internal government watchdog says it will probe a Trump administration move to cancel nearly $8 billion in climate and energy funding that primarily impacted blue states. The Energy Department’s inspector general’s office will probe the cancellations, acting Inspector
President Donald Trump gave a nonsensical justification Wednesday for his blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” coming and going from Venezuela. Speaking to reporters, Trump appeared to claim that he was simply stealing back oil that already belonged to the United States.
A federal report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the Arctic region experienced its warmest year ever, heating twice as fast as the national average. Surface air temperatures from October 2024 to September 2025 were the highest on record since at
A federal judge has blocked a move by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to limit lawmakers' access to immigration detention facilities. Lawmakers have a right to make unannounced visits to detention centers, but DHS in July sought to curb visits with a new policy
Just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday, while 73 percent disapprove. That approval rating marks a new low since Quinnipiac began asking the question in 2009, surpassing the 19
Nebraska will become the first state to implement Medicaid work requirements as outlined in Republicans' summer tax bill. “We’re not here to take everybody to the curb,” the state's Republican Gov. Jim Pillen said on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press, noting that
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who is increasingly seen as a potential Democratic candidate for president in 2028, on Wednesday highlighted a poll showing her beating Vice President Vance in a hypothetical match-up. The poll from The Argument/Verasight asked
Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, asked a judge to set aside her conviction Wednesday, claiming newly available evidence shows she was not fairly prosecuted. The longtime Epstein counterpart filed a court petition challenging her
To President Donald Trump, a picture is apparently not worth 1,000 words. It’s important to get some real words in there too, in case things aren’t clear. As if Trump’s new hallway of presidential portraits wasn’t enough of an eyesore, he’s now added long, rambling plaques
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday said President Trump’s national address has to focus on affordability as Americans grapple with rising prices. “Look, I'm sure he's going to highlight the work that the administration and Congress have done throughout the course of this
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday he will step down from his role at the bureau in January, departing less than a year after he took the job. Bongino announced the news in a post on X, where he thanked President Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Kash Patel’s woefully underqualified No. 2, is finally headed for the exit. The former talk radio announced Wednesday that he will leave his position next month, the AP reported. Bongino reportedly told confidants that he was not planning to
A majority of Americans say they oppose the United States taking military action against Venezuela as the Trump administration escalates its campaign against the country's president, Nicolás Maduro, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Pollsters found
Related video: Jared Isaacman confirmation hearing, Dec. 3 The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jason Isaacman to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), bringing the roller-coaster road for approving a full-time head of the agency to an end. Senators voted
A new poll from Quinnipiac University found that a majority of respondents believe President Trump is more responsible for the state of the economy than former President Biden. The poll, released Wednesday, found that 57 percent of respondents put the state of the economy at
President Trump ordered a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela on Tuesday, continuing his escalations against the Latin American country and its leader, Nicolás Maduro. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Maduro’s “illegitimate” regime is
President Trump on Wednesday met with the families of U.S. service members who were killed in Syria last weekend and participated in a dignified transfer, a solemn ceremony where the troops’ remains are returned to the U.S. Trump attended the proceedings at Dover Air Force
The Federal Communications Commission website no longer reflects that the FCC is an “independent” agency after FCC Chair Brendan Carr testified to Congress on Wednesday that he didn’t consider it to be one. Axios’s Sara Fischer caught the change, and posted about it on X: “This
The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) aimed at boosting military helicopter safety, particularly around Reagan Washington National Airport, after a battle in recent days to have it included in the National Defense Authorization Act. Cruz sought and
House GOP moderates on Wednesday privately huddled with a bipartisan group of senators to begin plotting the next steps on extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies. The meeting came after four Republicans broke ranks and signed a Democratic-led discharge petition,
New plaques were spotted by reporters on Wednesday at the “Presidential Walk of Fame” along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in which President Trump jabs at the most recent former presidents. Former President Biden’s plaque references him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and
President Trump is seeing the lowest economic approval ratings of either of his terms, according to a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. The poll found that more than half of American respondents, 57 percent, disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy. Thirty-six percent
Former Vice President Kamala Harris said in a new interview that members of her party are “very much stuck in the past” and suggested Democrats “give a lot of lip service to listening to people” but don’t actually engage. “In some ways, we are very much stuck in the past, and
Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis (D) defended her office’s 2020 election subversion case against President Trump and his allies with vigor Wednesday at a state Senate hearing scrutinizing the prosecution. Across three hours of testimony, Willis denied deciding
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday said that adding his name to a discharge petition to force the House to vote on extending soon-to-expire ObamaCare subsidies for three years "is not an indictment" of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). "This is not an indictment of him," Lawler
Democrats are feeling something they have not felt in a while: momentum. After a string of recent wins, there is real belief inside the party that flipping the House next year is possible. Anti-Trump anger is motivating voters, and a renewed focus on affordability is finally