Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday said congressional lawmakers are retiring because "nothing is happening" on Capitol Hill. "If nothing’s being accomplished — because they are making a sacrifice, they’re being away from their family, sometimes it’s a long
A parachutist crash landed Friday near stands outside the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas, while another landed behind the end zone into netting, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Six parachutists from the All Veteran Group team attempted to land
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that California’s open carry ban in most parts of the state infringes on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted 2-1 that the ban runs afoul of the Supreme Court’s expanded Second
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump refuses to give up aspirin habit In a frank interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Trump admitted to continuing his daily high dose of aspirin, despite guidance from his
President Trump signed an executive order Friday blocking a semiconductor deal between HieFo Corp. and Emcore Corp., citing national security concerns related to China. “There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that HieFo Corporation, a company organized under the
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon on Friday slammed President Trump's threat to intervene if Iran cracks down on anti-government protests as something resembling threats made by former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton. “Aren’t people
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump: Tariff limits would be ‘terrible blow’ security President Trump on Friday doubled down on his tariff agenda as the Supreme Court weighs its legality,
The U.S. Coast Guard painted a grim picture Friday of its ongoing search for the survivors of a Dec. 30, 2025, strike on an alleged drug-trafficking convoy in the Pacific Ocean that the military said killed at least three people. The Coast Guard said Friday that it is
An off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Wednesday allegedly shot and killed a man following a confrontation outside the officer's home in Los Angeles. "On December, 31st, an off duty ICE Officer bravely responded to an active shooter situation at his
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story BYD overtakes Tesla as world's top EV seller China’s BYD overtook Elon Musk’s Tesla as the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) seller in 2025, as Tesla faced declining sales for a second year in a row. © Aaron Favila,
The Trump administration’s latest attempt to block offshore wind turbine construction is meeting with a pushback in the courts. In December, the administration suspended the authority of five major offshore wind projects to build in federal waters. It did so by pausing leases
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) proclaimed a “new era” as he took the helm of the country’s largest city on New Year’s Day. Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist whose star rocketed last year, was publicly sworn in on the steps of City Hall, where he addressed a
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Friday called on President Trump to expand the administration's seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers to tankers coming from Russia. "He’s been using our military to interdict oil tankers because there is this ghost fleet that helps keep Venezuela’s
The president is apparently taking foreign policy lessons from one of his political nemeses, Hillary Clinton—at least, that’s what one of his biggest first-term acolytes seems to believe. Trump’s former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon accused his old boss of rifling
Kennedy Center interim President Richard Grenell dismissed reports Friday that "Wicked" composer Stephen Schwartz canceled his upcoming performances at the venue, saying he had never signed a deal to perform under the new leadership. "The Stephen Schwartz reports are totally
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) vowed Wednesday that if elected governor he'd strip driver’s licenses from federal immigration officers wearing masks in California. “If the governor has the ability to issue driver’s licenses to people in California, if you’re going to wear a
Outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday slammed President Trump’s threat to intervene in Iran as it cracks down on anti-government protests. Greene said on the social platform X that Trump’s pledge, along with Israeli billionaire Shlomo Kramer telling CNBC that
Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has revoked a series of executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams (D), including some aimed at supporting Israel. In one of Mamdani’s first moves as mayor, he issued a directive to undo orders signed by Adams
The powers that be at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are planning on a massive recruitment drive in 2026—but the people they’re hoping to attract aren’t your typical feds. The deportation agency has earmarked $100 million for online advertisements over the next year,
Just one day after a bombshell Wall Street Journal story on the president’s growing signs of aging, Donald Trump went on a bizarre posting spree about dead birds and wind turbines. Throughout Friday, Trump posted several different photos on Truth Social of dead birds near
SpaceX will be moving around 4,400 satellites to a lower orbit in 2026
China's BYD overtook Elon Musk’s Tesla as the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) seller in 2025, as Tesla faced declining sales for a second year in a row. BYD said Thursday that it sold about 2.26 million EVs in 2025, up nearly 28 percent from the year before. In a release
Many of us have spent the last two weeks largely checked out and concentrating on happier things than the intimate details of Jeffrey Epstein’s private life. Sadly, that’s all about to change. Come Monday, it’s going to be all Epstein all the time. That’s because the Department
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday selected Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's intelligence agency, to serve as his chief of staff as negotiations continue to end Russia’s war against the eastern European country. Zelensky wrote on the social platform X that
The Trump administration has violated the fundamental business principle of honoring legally binding contracts, which will cost both the Treasury and the people dearly and create obstacles to future governmental deal-making.
The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committee offices on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot will remain locked up while awaiting trial, a federal magistrate judge ruled. Judge Matthew Sharbaugh wrote in an order Friday
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot admitted on Friday that it has been posting sexualized images of children on X, blaming “lapses in safeguard” for the content. “We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them—[child sexual abuse material] is illegal and
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Friday criticized President Trump’s threat to intervene as Iran cracks down on anti-government protests, arguing that the move would be more about oil than free speech concerns. The president vowed on Truth Social that the U.S. will “rescue”
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologized this week after generating and sharing a sexualized image of two young girls, calling it a “failure in safeguards.” “I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages
Russia's aggression in Ukraine is being met with a double standard by some scholars, who suggest that the West is to blame and that restraint should be demanded of the victim, rather than recognizing Russia's actions as a threat to the security architecture that has maintained
President Trump revealed in an interview this week that the construction of the Triumphal Arch in Washington, D.C., is set to begin soon. “It hasn’t started yet. It starts sometime in the next two months. It’ll be great. Everyone loves it,” Trump said in an interview with
Donald Trump promised to restore America, but his presidency revealed the country's deep-rooted issues of debt, declining soft power, and social fragmentation, which cannot be reversed by rhetoric alone.
Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams slammed Andy Cohen after the Bravo host criticized his “chaotic” tenure in city hall. “Watching the final moments of Mayor Adams’s chaotic, horrible … I just want to say, I mean, he got his pardons. … No, I’m just saying. Great, you got
Conservatives are already fuming about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans to bring the Big Apple together. Right-wing commentators blasted Mamdani’s inaugural pledge to bring the “warmth of collectivism” to city residents Thursday, claiming that the mayor’s seemingly
A delivery driver for DoorDash has been ousted from the platform after allegedly attempting to trick a customer into thinking their order had been delivered to their door with an AI-generated image.
President Trump shopped for marble and onyx Friday in Florida for the new White House ballroom. Trump visited Arc Stone & Tile in Lake Worth, Fla., in Palm Beach County, a short drive from his Mar-a-Lago resort. “President Trump is purchasing marble and onyx, at his own
I fear Three Mile Island may not be able to turn the lights on at a Microsoft data center if it can’t turn its own lights on first.
President Trump on Friday doubled down on his tariff agenda as the Supreme Court weighs its legality, suggesting that losing his ability to impose import taxes on trading partners “would be a terrible blow” to the country. “Tariffs are an overwhelming benefit to our Nation, as
Donald Trump’s motorcade stopped at a random strip mall in Florida Friday morning so that the president could purchase marble and onyx for his increasingly expensive White House ballroom. According to White House pool reports , “The motorcade arrived at a shopping center in
A new year, a new lie: The White House is apparently banking that the American public won’t remember what Donald Trump said about his own health just three months ago. Trump admitted several times on camera to receiving an MRI in October—as did his physician, who released a
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Trump earlier this week, they differed over the next stage of the Gaza ceasefire. But both men did agree to launch a second attack on Iran, should Tehran continue to rearm and reconstitute its nuclear weapons
New York Magazine removed a former aide to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) from its cover after she resigned from his team over social media posts she made years ago containing antisemitic tropes. As part of a cover story on Mamdani's incoming administration, the
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, cardiologist to the late former Vice President Dick Cheney, dismissed President Trump’s aspirin regimen Thursday. The president told the Wall Street Journal that he takes a larger dose of the pain reliever to thin his blood, despite recommendations from his
As an at-birth IRA, Trump Accounts offer two especially exciting features, but kids need accounts to realize these benefits.
A senior Iranian official on Friday condemned President Trump's threat that the U.S. would come to the aid of protesters in the country facing violence, warning that the Islamic Republic could retaliate against American bases and troops in the region. Speaker of Iran's
Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) hauled in nearly $7 million in the fourth quarter of fundraising last year in the Texas Senate race, raking in more than $13 million since launching his bid in September, his campaign announced Friday. His campaign said he raised $6.8 million
President Donald Trump has rung in 2026 by threatening war on two fronts—and picking a bizarre fight with American actor George Clooney and his wife, Amal. Trump on New Year’s Eve trashed the actor’s decision to leave the United States and obtain French citizenship with his
A damning new report on Donald Trump’s health has stirred the American public, and even roused the president himself. Practically nothing irks Trump more than stories about his age and his natural deterioration. But a Wall Street Journal article published Thursday—which
The Trump administration's pressure campaign against Venezuela is reminiscent of the U.S.'s catastrophic invasion of Iraq, as it relies on exaggeration, fearmongering, and the fabrication of existential threats to justify its actions, potentially leading to the same disastrous
The economy keeps growing — but life isn't getting easier for many.