President Trump on Friday defended his embattled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem as she faces calls to resign, suggesting she's been targeted by critics "because she is a woman, and has done a really GREAT JOB!" "The Radical Left Lunatics,
President Trump praised his sweeping tariffs on foreign countries in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal Friday, arguing that they "brought America back." "When I imposed historic tariffs on nearly all foreign countries last April, the critics said my policies would
President Trump on Friday nominated economist Brett Matsumoto to be commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) months after the president fired the previous agency head over substantial revisions to past jobs reports. "For many years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
The group is also advocating for policies including those designed to encourage people to marry young and forgo education in favor of starting a family.
A California sheriff on Thursday called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be "transparent" with local authorities about any possible federal immigration operations around Levi's Stadium during Super Bowl LX. "So I urge our federal partners: if there is something
Former CNN host Don Lemon, released a day after federal officers arrested him in Los Angeles, defended his career in journalism on Friday, saying he will never stop reporting. U.S. District Judge Patricia Donahue ordered Lemon to be released on no money bond, according to The
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Tylenol’s reputation rebounds among Republicans Despite President Trump’s explicit opinion that "taking Tylenol is not good” last year, recent polling found that the brand’s reputation among
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to pass a major funding package consisting of five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but the legislation won’t become law before parts of the government shut down at
With the House not voting until Monday, the Pentagon and most domestic agencies are set to shutter briefly.
Lady Gaga said Thursday her heart aches for families in the U.S. "mercilessly targeted" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid President Trump's immigration crackdown and growing tensions with Minnesota local and state officials over immigration operations. "In a
{beacon} Technology The Big Story Reid Hoffman urges Silicon Valley to speak out against Trump LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman argued Silicon Valley “can’t bend the knee” to President Trump after a second American was killed by federal agents amid an immigration crackdown
Americans are more worried about affording health care than any other household necessity, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll published Thursday. The poll, conducted with 1,426 adults Jan. 13-20, found that two-thirds of respondents said they felt more anxious about
Former Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is blasting President Trump's administration over the arrest of journalist Don Lemon and several other independent media members in connection with a protest at a church in Minnesota earlier this
The top two Democratic candidates in Texas's Senate race are neck and neck in a new poll. A Texas Public Opinion Research poll surveyed likely Democratic primary voters ahead of the state party’s upcoming primary elections on March 3. In response to a question about whom they
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump removes some Venezuelan oil sanctions The U.S. is lifting some sanctions on Venezuelan oil, seeking to allow American firms to trade and sell more oil that is produced there. © Evan Vucci, Associated
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told House Republicans he wants to utilize a special fast-track process that will require cooperation from Democrats to swiftly pass the funding package that the Senate is poised to send over and end what lawmakers hope will be a brief government
Democratic strategist David Axelrod on Thursday warned Democratic lawmakers and candidates to avoid calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished on the campaign trail. "Well, you know the problem that we’ve seen before when people said abolish the
Donald Trump and his allies stayed connected to Jeffrey Epstein well after they claimed they had stopped communicating. The president has long asserted that his close friendship with the child sex trafficker ended after the duo had a falling out over real estate in Palm Beach,
"Mama. I thought we had time."
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and 15 other Senate Democrats sent a letter to the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers rebuking a proposed rule that would limit federal water protections, arguing that it ignores science and threatens drinking water for millions of Americans.
A former Google engineer was convicted Thursday of stealing AI-related trade secrets from the tech giant for Chinese companies, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of California. Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was found guilty of seven
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday filed a civil rights complaint against Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz, claiming he discriminated against Armenians in Los Angeles County by accusing them of hospice fraud. The complaint
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate is poised to vote on a series of amendments and then pass a massive package of appropriations bills to fund the federal departments and agencies. Thune announced votes on seven amendments,
Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, appeared in the government’s Friday release of additional Jeffrey Epstein tiles. Warsh’s name appears to be on an emailed list of guests to “St. Barth’s Christmas 2010,” among others such as
A new batch of documents released by the Justice Department on Friday confirm that sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein had active—and seemingly close—relationships with Elon Musk and Steve Bannon. One email shows Musk reaching out to Epstein in December 2013, mentioning that he
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Friday defended Tulsi Gabbard’s presence days earlier at an FBI raid at an election office in Georgia, as questions mount over the notable appearance for a director of national intelligence. “Could you please explain Tulsi Gabbard’s role
Political commentator Bill O’Reilly said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) should face federal charges for defying federal immigration laws in the city. “He’s in trouble,” O’Reilly said Thursday on NewsNation’s "Katie Pavlich Tonight," adding, "What you’ve got now in Minnesota
President Donald Trump was named in more of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s unsealed emails on Friday. After the Department of Justice released a new trove of emails, social media sleuths and journalists scoured the files for mentions of Trump, who had a long and
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) confirmed Friday they will testify on March 4 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee over the state's welfare fraud scandal. “Americans deserve answers about the rampant misuse of
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is claiming that, somehow, the Justice Department has no knowledge on the men who used convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s network to abuse dozens of young women—and it certainly won’t be found in the millions of new documents released
In the latest part of its Epstein files rollout, the Justice Department released a long list of sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump. Then it temporarily retracted it. The DOJ published three million pages of the Epstein files Friday, more than a month past its
The government is likely to temporarily shut down this weekend after the Senate failed to pass a funding package on Thursday due to challenges from Democrats to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bill. Here’s what you need to know about the partial government shutdown.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney praised President Trump's nomination of former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh to serve as its next chair in a post Friday on social platform X. “Kevin Warsh is a fantastic choice to lead the world’s most important central bank at
The U.S. is lifting some sanctions on Venezuelan oil, seeking to allow American firms to trade and sell more oil that is produced there. The move comes as the administration has said it will sell Venezuelan oil following its capture of leader Nicolás Maduro. Previously, two
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying up warehouses across the country to build a massive network of detention centers. Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been spent to create huge immigrant jails, often in small towns, Bloomberg reports . The agency paid $102
Renowned actress Catherine O'Hara has died at the age of 71, according to multiple reports.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman argued Thursday that Silicon Valley “can’t bend the knee” to President Trump after a second American was killed by federal agents amid an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Hoffman, a major Democratic donor, said in an op-ed in the San
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and if the resolution passes the full House, the Department of Justice will have to decide whether
English musician Brian May, the lead guitar player for Queen, hinted that the band probably wouldn’t perform in the United States in the near future, if at all.
A federal judge has rejected a request to be released pending trial from the suspect accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committees ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, an appointee of former
President Donald Trump, who is an inflation dove, announced Friday morning that he will name Kevin Warsh—whose past record is that of an inflation hawk—to succeed Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Trump has been so desperate to lower interest rates that last
Former Attorney General Eric Holder (D) said Thursday he has “huge concerns” about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s presence during the recent FBI raid of election offices in Georgia, arguing she has “no role” in domestic activities. “I have huge concerns. The
President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday that he did not discuss interest rate cuts with his Federal Reserve chair pick, Kevin Warsh, insisting that would be “inappropriate.” When asked whether Warsh had committed to him that he would cut interest rates if
The Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division will join a variety of federal entities investigating the killing of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti, tapping the involvement of a segment of the DOJ that reviews excessive force by police. Deputy Attorney General Todd
Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" was presented as a new architecture for global stability at Davos, but lacks the necessary components of a functioning international institution and risks creating a U.S.-centric club that sidelines dissenting states and normalizes bypassing
After a magistrate judge left Attorney General Pam Bondi furious by rejecting a criminal complaint against journalist Don Lemon on January 18, she tried to get her revenge Friday morning. The Department of Justice arrested Lemon in Los Angeles on charges related to his
