Americans are growing more pessimistic about the state of the U.S. economy, according to a new survey. The Gallup poll, released Thursday, found that nearly half of the respondents, 47 percent, rated the economic conditions in the country as "poor." This marks a 10-point
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will speak with reporters Thursday morning as the battle over Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding persists and days after Virginia voters approved a Democratic-friendly redistricting measure. Jeffries has been at the forefront of
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday ripped the Trump administration’s potential bailout of Spirit Airlines. “This is an absolutely TERRIBLE idea,” Cruz wrote on the social platform X of the deal. Bloomberg reported that under the deal, the administration could own as much as
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday morning on President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request. The White House is requesting $9.2 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Commerce Department — a $1.3
Orbán’s Hungary was not aligned with American interests.
Sen. Maria Cantwell and other lawmakers want an investigation into whether the agency’s administrator “profited from deliberately violating his ethics agreement.”
President Trump on Thursday said he ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” any boat caught putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as his administration ramps up mine-clearing efforts in the critical waterway. “I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any
The New York Times is alleging the FBI investigated one of its journalists after a reporter for the paper wrote an article questioning the security protections of director Kash Patel's girlfriend, which the bureau and Patel have denied. FBI agents interviewed Patel's girlfriend
The House Ethics Committee is facing a crisis of its own, as it is being used as a political weapon to protect certain members of Congress from more serious allegations, rather than functioning as a neutral arbiter.
Senate Republicans adopted a budget resolution in the wee hours of Thursday morning that sets up a path to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down since mid-February. It puts in motion a process for Congress to vote next month on a budget
Primary battles are intensifying across the country in California and Michigan. Meanwhile in Washington, funding fights loom as the Department of Homeland Security faces a cash crunch and President Trump signals a sharp shift on Iran policy. Plus, the growing turbulence inside
When natural disasters strike, they destroy everything in their wake — including the records that prove who we are.
Since the war began in late February, Karex has faced rising prices for materials used to produce and package condoms.
Senate Republicans held a budget reconciliation “vote-a-rama” in the wee hours of the night to kickstart their Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol funding process. The controversial move, which wrapped up just after 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, resulted in a 50-48
Rent growth was 1.8% in March, the slowest annual pace since 2020, Zillow says.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order Thursday to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The order shifts the designation of licensed medical marijuana from a high level of regulation to a much looser level. It also provides a tax
A Republican representative in New Jersey facing a tough reelection fight is nowhere to be found. Representative Tom Kean Jr. represents the Garden State’s 7th district, its most divided. President Trump carried it by one point in 2024, and Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill
We struggle because human intuition was never built for numbers this large.
“He’s in a bad mood,” one GOP senator said about President Donald Trump.
Interestingly, Americans aren't moving to the states that spend the most — they're leaving them.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) challenged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday to campaign in his state after the Democrat issued a warning to Florida over redistricting. “I will pay for you to come down to Florida and campaign,” DeSantis said during a
The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 continues to lure unaccompanied children into the hands of criminal cartels — and then to funnel them into the U.S. for supposed legal protection.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 23 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . After we recorded, a court blocked the new Virginia map, but that is likely temporary as it will be quickly appealed . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from
In today’s issue: The top six remaining candidates running for governor of California faced off Wednesday as the primary rapidly approaches and no candidate has emerged as a clear front-runner. The debate, hosted by NewsNation and The Hill’s parent company Nexstar, came less
Less than 24 hours after President Trump accepted the off-ramp proposed by Pakistan’s leaders, granting an “indefinite ceasefire” so Iran’s leaders could "come up with a unified proposal,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran
It’s hard to overstate the damage that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done to the public health infrastructure of the United States in his first year as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. An exhaustive list of these crimes could—and likely will — fill books. Though
President Trump's executive order loosening research restrictions on psychedelic medicine, which was kick-started by a text to Trump from podcaster Joe Rogan, could help legitimize an industry that's long operated in the shadows. Advocates and researchers said they are
Senate Republicans are divided over how to handle the 60-day mark of the military conflict against Iran, with some arguing that Congress would need to vote to continue military action beyond the window set by the 1973 War Powers Act. A group of Republican senators, including
On Saturday, a U.S. district judge, Mustafa T. Kasubhai, blocked a federal policy that forced health care providers to follow the government’s agenda and halt gender-affirming care for young people. The ruling began with a short, emphatic declaration: “Unserious leaders are
New deadline. Same problems. Lawmakers last week punted the battle to renew the nation’s spy powers for 10 days, extending not only the deadline to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), but also the difficult discussions over how to reform it.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing pressure from all sides as he insists on passing a GOP-only bill to fund immigration enforcement before taking up bipartisan legislation to fund the rest of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), even as the department is set to run
If you were, for some reason, to only get your news about the war in Iran from the president’s Truth Social feed, you might be under the impression that the United States was on the brink of a historic military victory, perhaps its most significant since World War II. “Iran is
I. That Antichrist Nonsense, Explained Twenty-second-century historians tracing the ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to sinister oligarchs enacting Philip K. Dick prophesies may locate its apogee in four lectures
The surge of House resignations this month has triggered calls from both parties for a broader overhaul of the ethics process and how the chamber polices its own. While many lawmakers have welcomed the hasty departures of former Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Tony Gonzales
After the metal detector, there was no pat down. A guard marked my wrist with ultraviolet ink that shone in blacklight. Since I had cleared the background check, my books were my identification. The inmates sat in bleachers of the big gymnasium where the sultry air smelled of
Republicans and the White House are seeking to ease growing anxiety around potentially widespread midterm losses following Democrats’ redistricting win in Virginia on Tuesday. Virginia’s referendum could give Democrats as many as four more House seats by this fall. That will
Claude, Anthropic’s large language model, has a lot to answer for. Let’s start with this. Given that Anthropic took such a seemingly principled stand against the use of its AI in lethal autonomous weapons, why did the U.S. military use Claude to attack Iran with … lethal
Book challenges neared a record high in 2025, showing an increase in pressure from political groups and officials as opposed to parents, as well as new targets in the challenged titles. The American Library Association (ALA) found 4,235 unique titles were challenged in 2025,
And you have long since outlived the scene where he buried his Swiss Army knife in the planting box outside the courthouse to avoid setting off alarms—as if you two hadn’t already created alarms enough, hadn’t sufficiently frightened and injured each other, which is why you
Measures seeking to block or rein in data center construction are gaining momentum at the state and local level, as Americans increasingly sour on the massive buildout of AI infrastructure in their communities. The Maine legislature became the first in the nation to pass a bill
Anthropic’s new Mythos model is keeping the company’s foot in the White House’s door despite the Trump administration blacklisting the firm’s products from military and government work earlier this year. Mythos, Anthropic’s most advanced model to date, has drawn interest from
After Democrats narrowly passed a mid-decade redistricting in Virginia, Donald Trump erupted in fury on Truth Social. He slammed the result as rigged (of course), lied about the voting in it, and most important, openly called on the courts to nullify it. But some Republicans
Approving replacements for Donald Trump’s embattled deputies could get complicated, lawmakers are warning.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) broke ranks Thursday morning and voted against a budget resolution that could set the stage for ending the two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Murkowski, a senior member of the Senate
Senate Republicans adopted a budget resolution during a late-night voting marathon that lasted until early Thursday morning, setting the stage for Congress to vote next month on a budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement and reopen the Department of
An early-morning budget vote sets the stage for a planned $70 billion immigration enforcement bill.
Three Republican senators voted in support of an amendment sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) early Thursday morning to slash prescription drug prices by requiring that Americans pay no more for their medications than Europeans or Canadians. Two of the chambers most
Four Republican senators voted against an amendment sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to instruct the Senate Rules Committee to find a way to add the core elements of the SAVE America Act to a budget reconciliation package that could pass next month with a simple-majority
Six candidates running for California governor squared off on the debate stage Wednesday, yet the forum may have created more questions than answers for politcal observers, as Democrats struggle to coalesce around a candidate ahead of the June primary The debate came just weeks