The popular word game "Wordle" is being made into a TV show, which will be broadcast on NBC and hosted by anchor Savannah Guthrie. The popular word game from The New York Times is expected to air in primetime and will challenge contestants to solve five-letter word puzzles in a
President Trump will preside over an event Monday morning to highlight moves he has made to advance maternal health and support motherhood. Among those measures is the unveiling of Moms.gov, which the administration launched on Mother's Day, to help provide resources to
This is the first presidential election Don has ever called wrong.
President Trump went after Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich over a recent interview she did with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a prominent progressive whose star has risen in the last year amid his push for the release of files linked to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “You
If you want to ask the editors a question, click the “view chat” icon in the top right corner of the video, put in your first and last name, and type in your questions. President Trump shoots down Iran's response to a peace proposal as Congress returns to a full agenda,
The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner last month has pleaded not guilty to four federal charges. Cole Allen, 31, entered the plea in federal court Monday morning, where he appeared with shackles
President Donald Trump can’t even keep track of his own conspiracy theories. During an interview on Full Measure , host Sharyl Attkisson pressed Trump about his allegations that someone had stolen from the country’s gold reserve at Fort Knox. “What happened to the audit of Fort
The upcoming "Midterms of Rage" elections are being fueled by anger towards the President's policies, including his proposed $1 billion White House ballroom, his war against Iran, and his false accusations against the pope.
The president has publicly declared that the Supreme Court should cave to his whims, penning that it’s “OK” for his appointees to “be loyal.” In a lengthy Truth Social rant Sunday, Donald Trump railed against justices he appointed to the nation’s highest judiciary, wondering
Iranian state media shed light on its negotiating team's latest demands in talks with the U.S., which President Trump roundly rejected on Sunday. Iran demanded war reparations, Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. sanctions ending, along with the return of
[Watch The Hill Editors Call: Join us today at noon ET here as Editor-in-Chief Ian Swanson leads a conversation about this week’s political news and takes questions from a live online audience.] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday accused Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) of
Europe should not have to live at the whim of a nation led by a mercurial and unreliable Donald Trump. It needs to push back against the president in the only way he understands — with tough rhetoric.
One American on the cruise ship that experienced a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus, while another is experiencing mild symptoms, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Sunday night. NBC News reported that the 17 Americans who were on
Iran has laid out its demands in a counteroffer to the U.S. that President Trump shot down on Sunday, while seeking to push back nuclear negotiations, according to multiple reports. Iranian state media has said its negotiators demanded war reparations, Iranian sovereignty over
Republican candidate and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt has turned what might have been a predictable race into a genuinely competitive one
The American people have seen several big oil scandals over the last century. We have survived Teapot Dome, the collapse of Enron, windfall profiteering during the 1970s oil crisis, Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon, and more. However, Donald Trump’s deal with Big Oil is the most
The two chambers come back to Capitol Hill this week with a list of legislative priorities they have failed to reach consensus on — and a shrinking time frame to get it done.
Predators do not operate within neat boundaries, and our laws should not assume they do.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 11 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. After the Virginia Supreme
In today’s issue: Democrats are still in the driver’s seat toward winning back control of the House, despite suffering a major blow in Virginia on Friday and at least three GOP-controlled Southern states scrambling to redraw their midterm maps. The Virginia Supreme Court’s
If immigration declines, tomorrow's economy will need an offsetting boost in technology or capital — something we can simulate.
My experience didn’t happen through the mail. There was at least some level of medical oversight. Even with that, everything went terribly wrong.
Back on May 1, at an event in West Palm Beach, President Donald Trump quipped that the U.S. Navy was acting “ like pirates ” while seizing ships as part of the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “We took over the ship, we took over the cargo, we took over the oil. It’s a
President Trump’s administration struck a deal late Friday with the National Links Trust (NLT), the local nonprofit that operates Washington D.C.’s public golf courses, clearing the path for an overhaul of East Potomac Golf Links, a site the president has for months had his eye
Congress returns from its one-week recess to a packed agenda, diving back into many of the same high-stakes issues that dominated lawmakers’ attention last month. Among the most pressing on GOP leaders’ to-do list is passing the bill to fund immigration enforcement, which they
There are a lot of things wrong with today’s Republican Party. They lie. They lie about how much they lie. They have handed their party and our democracy to a conscience-less kleptocrat, and they adulate him the way Russian communists once lionized Stalin (massive, Stalinesque
What do oranges, deep time, and the Swiss Army have in common? Very little, I would think, except John McPhee, who has written about all of them, along with Wimbledon, family doctors, and nuclear physics. A nonfiction generalist of extraordinarily wide-ranging taste, there
The U.S. war against Iran threatens to be a dark cloud following President Trump to his high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week. Trump is expected to meet with Xi on Thursday and Friday in a trip postponed because of the war from early April. This
When Linnea was younger, she would attend a Christian summer camp in western Michigan, far outside of the liberal bubble of her Shaker Heights neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. Now a 19-year-old student at Case Western University, Linnea had grown up attending a progressive,
Alaskans have been hit hard by the healthcare cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and lapsed ObamaCare subsidies, presenting a prime target for Democrats seeking to oust Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan from office. A Democratic ad campaign released late last month accused
Senate Democrats are gearing up to make President Trump’s lavish new White House ballroom a prominent issue in the midterm elections, but several prominent Senate Democratic contenders have also accepted contributions from corporations funding the ballroom, muddling the
After the Virginia Supreme Court blocked the Democratic redistricting plan, which would have netted Democrats four more House seats, Donald Trump celebrated. He called the ruling a “huge win” over a “horrible gerrymander.” But Trump himself has ordered many GOP states to
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is rallying fellow Democrats in a new “Dear Colleague” letter for a battle royale on the Senate floor over $1 billion in proposed funding for President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom that’s tucked into a $72 billion
Sarah Kellen, Jeffrey Epstein’s onetime assistant, told prosecutors she was a victim. Now lawmakers wonder if she should be treated as an accomplice.
Republicans in the two chambers are divided over key pieces of legislation, and animosity is running high.
The remains of a US soldier who went missing in Morocco were recovered on Saturday from the Atlantic Ocean. The deceased service member was identified as 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr. of Richmond, Virginia, by the U.S. Army Europe and Africa. Key fell off a cliff during a
President Trump on Sunday shared a lengthy post rebuking Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch for ruling against his tariff agenda in February. “They were appointed by me, and yet have hurt our Country so badly! I do not believe they meant to do so, but
Former Florida Rep. Bill Posey (R) died on Sunday at the age of 78 surrounded by his wife and two daughters after years of service representing Florida's 15th and 8th congressional districts. “Congressman Posey represented Florida in the United States House of Representatives
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iran war is “not over” in an interview that aired on Sunday, reinvigorating the push to dismantle Tehran’s proxies and see its nuclear enrichment program collapse. “I think it accomplished a great deal, but it's not over,
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Sunday stressed the need for bipartisan cooperation to address maternal healthcare gaps. On Mother’s Day, the two spoke to host Kristen Welker on NBC's “Meet the Press” about their work to improve
The Trump administration launched the website Moms.gov on Mother’s Day in an effort to help provide resources to expecting women and their families. The site’s tagline says it's “addressing the needs of mothers and fathers who face difficult or unexpected pregnancies and
While congressional Republicans have coalesced around a plan to fund immigration enforcement, there are plenty more intraparty battles that will make for rocky legislating for the summer. At the crux of many of the disputes is anxiety about the looming midterm elections that
President Trump slammed the Iranian government’s response to his administration’s peace proposal on Sunday. The president wrote on his Truth Social platform: “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” The
On Sunday, President Trump said federal agencies "must buy American" in a Truth Social post, doubling down on his push to prioritize the use of products manufactured, developed and produced in the United States. “ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST BUY AMERICAN — NO EXCUSES! For
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Sunday called a recent Virginia Supreme Court ruling rolling back redistricting in the state “disgraceful,” saying the court “suckered the people of Virginia.” “So, what the Virginia Supreme Court did was not only wrong, it was disgraceful. They
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) said Sunday that the Supreme Court sent the country “backwards in time” by declaring Louisiana's addition of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The high court ruled last month, in a 6-3
Virginia Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D) on Sunday said “all options” are on the table for Democrats in the Old Dominion State as they respond to a ruling from the state Supreme Court striking their redistricting measure. The decision immediately eliminates four House seats that
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Sunday questioned the basis for the U.S. war against Iran, which recently stretched past its second month, saying “we're going to be in a worse posture than we otherwise would be in if this war in Iran didn't happen.” “Do you think that the U.S.
President Trump on Sunday said Iran will be “laughing no longer” as he continues to hammer out the framework for a peace proposal with Tehran. “For 47 years the Iranians have been ‘tapping’ us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying
Tucker Carlson has risen to 7 percent in the 2028 Republican presidential nomination prediction markets, despite having no campaign, committee, or party apparatus, due to his large independent media presence and the dissatisfaction of Trump's base with his declining approval