Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump unveils 100% tariff on branded pharmaceutical imports After threatening to impose tariffs on drugmakers throughout 2025 to secure Most Favored Nation (MFN) agreements, President Trump
A spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry said Thursday the U.S. has a new precision strike missile and used one to kill a group of children on the first day of strikes carried out by the U.S. and Israel. "The American new #PrSM [precision strike missile], which made its
Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil on Wednesday called on U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove to recuse himself from the pro-Palestinian activist's immigration case, where he risks deportation. Khalil's lawyers filed a petition requesting Bove's recusal over his
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Stocks sink, oil rises after Trump’s Iran war speech The stock market opened with losses Thursday morning and oil prices shot higher in the wake of President Trump’s speech on the Iran war. © Seth Wenig,
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Federal regulator faces off against states over prediction market rules The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is suing Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois over the states’ efforts to place restrictions on prediction
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday that he was lifting a ban on service members’ ability to carry personal firearms on U.S. military bases. “Our warfighters defend the rights to carry. They should be able to carry themselves,” Hegseth said in a video posted on
A voice actor on the popular animation series “Bob’s Burgers” was seriously injured after crashing his vehicle into a toll plaza in New Hampshire on Tuesday, according to New Hampshire State Police. Eurgene Mirman, 51, was traveling northbound on the Everett Turnpike shortly
House Oversight Chair James Comer isn’t ruling out making Bondi honor the subpoena the panel slapped her with last month.
The Pam Bondi era at the Department of Justice (DOJ) is coming to an end, less than 14 months after it began. President Trump announced Bondi’s departure from the DOJ on Thursday, after she spent her tenure frequently defending the president and overseeing the rollout of files
Pam Bondi’s loyalty to President Trump wasn’t enough to save her. She constantly praised him during press conferences. She was combative in congressional hearings where she defended him and even lauded the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But he still fired her
Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has acquired the technology streaming show "TPBN" in a surprise move for Silicon Valley. The acquisition was announced online by both brands Thursday, though no official cost for the deal was disclosed. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting imported brand name drugs with a 100 percent tariff, citing the U.S.'s "import reliance" as reason for the decision. "I have determined that it is necessary and appropriate to impose a 100 percent ad valorem duty rate
A federal law requiring presidents to preserve and hand over presidential records to the government at the conclusion of their term is unconstitutional, according to a legally nonbinding Department of Justice (DOJ) opinion. The 52-page opinion, first reported by Axios, found
A month after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, President Donald Trump addressed the nation in a prime-time speech on April 1, saying the military operation was "getting very close" to completing its mission. Trump repeated some false and questionable claims
President Trump revamped his tariffs on steel, copper and aluminum in an executive order Thursday to ensure that they align with the “full value” of the imported metals. The value is based on the amount the U.S. pays for the import, not how much it cost to produce in its
Despite being fired by President Trump on Thursday, outgoing Attorney General Pam Bondi may still have to respond to a congressional subpoena and testify under oath in two weeks. Last month, five Republicans joined every single Democrat on the House Oversight Committee to vote
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday responded to President Trump’s threat during his recent address to the nation to take Iran “back to the Stone Ages” with ongoing U.S. military operations against the country. “There's one striking difference between the
A recent study found that a third of Americans are planning to invest in high-risk, speculative assets this year as a method for financial planning. The Northwestern Mutual Planning & Progress Study, which was released in full Wednesday, found that 39 percent of Americans said
House GOP leaders have a tough task ahead in passing a two-step plan to end the record-setting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown as their members call for passage of a Republican-only bill to fund immigration enforcement before they accept a bipartisan Senate bill
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the highest-ranking Army officer in the country in the middle of the U.S. war on Iran. On Thursday, CBS News reported that Hegseth had asked Gen. Randy George, the Army’s chief of staff, to step down and retire. The Biden appointee’s
President Trump wanted his Department of Justice to prosecute and put in jail former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Representative Adam Schiff, and numerous of his other political enemies. That effort has largely failed. So Trump fired
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was losing favor among Americans across the political spectrum in the months before President Trump fired her on Thursday. Bondi’s net favorability sank to -26 percentage points in mid-February — with 23 percent of the country viewing her
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Randy George, to step down from the post and retire immediately, a Pentagon official told The Hill on Thursday. The Army did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment. The Pentagon confirmed
Dozens of congressional Democrats sent a letter to President Trump on Thursday raising urgent alarm over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Cuba that has been made worse, they said, by the administration’s fuel quarantine against the island. The letter, obtained exclusively
President Trump announced that he had fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, a move that followed months of controversy surrounding the Justice Department’s handling of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The ouster was welcomed by many lawmakers on
Vice President Vance will head to Hungary next week to hold bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and give remarks on the partnership between the U.S. and Hungary. Second lady Usha Vance will be traveling with the vice president when he goes from April 7-8,
A federal judge in California ruled Wednesday that federal agents violated a previous court order restricting them from making immigration arrests without a warrant during an enforcement operation in Sacramento last summer. Judge Jennifer Thurston found last April that U.S.
Months before the midterm elections, President Trump once again is trying to take over voting in America, claiming power he doesn’t have. His latest executive order , which he signed on Tuesday, instructs the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots unless the voters
President Donald Trump has to nominate someone to replace Attorney General Pam Bondi and, big surprise: His options are all bad. Ahead of Bondi’s ouster Thursday, reports were already swirling that a dissatisfied Trump was planning to tap Lee Zeldin, administrator of the
Todd Blanche will take over the Justice Department in an acting capacity following President Trump’s ouster of Attorney General Pam Bondi. It’s the highest perch yet for the former New York prosecutor and white-collar defense attorney, who came into Trump’s orbit as one of his
Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.) said Thursday that President Trump is “resorting to war crimes” to end the U.S. military operations against Iran. The president threatened to decimate Iran’s energy infrastructure and to send the regime “back to the Stone Ages” in an
Nearly 40,000 poor and working-class people in Puerto Rico were promised accessible solar panels and battery storage from the U.S. government following massive blackouts after Hurricane Maria in 2017 and Hurricane Fiona in 2022. Within a year of Donald Trump winning his second
The National Capital Planning Commission, or NCPC, issued final approval for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom Thursday, a key goalpost for the enormous development. The decision arrived two days after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ordered construction on the site to cease
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), one of the lead lawmakers behind the push to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, wants to know how the public feels about Pam Bondi being ousted as attorney general. “I support Trump firing Pam Bondi. Do you?” Massie posed to his followers on the
A new lawsuit has been filed challenging a recently enacted Florida law that mirrors the language of the federal Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act — President Trump’s self-described “No. 1” legislative priority. The lawsuit, which was filed in federal
There are now 10 toilets in space.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is suing Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois over the states’ efforts to place restrictions on prediction markets operating within their borders, underscoring the escalating fight between state and federal regulators over the
Gas prices have spiked by more than $1 a gallon in 30 states over the last month.
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) on Thursday voted to approve President Trump's plans for a ballroom located where the East Wing once stood next to the White House. Most of the commission's members, including the Trump-appointed Chair William Scharf, voted to
Donald Trump is preparing to release a budget plan that sets aside more than $1 trillion for defense spending in 2027, a sum that will be at least partially paid for by cuts to programs that actually help Americans. Trump is reportedly looking to boost defense spending to $1.5
French President Emmanuel Macron shot back at President Trump for comments he made about NATO and his wife, according to a report from French outlets Le Monde and Agence France-Presse (AFP). Trump on Wednesday ridiculed Macron as well as his wife, Brigitte Macron, during a
Pam Bondi is out of the Trump administration—and some insiders believe the underlying reason is due to an odd connection to California Representative Eric Swalwell. Donald Trump fired Bondi Thursday, thrusting her out of government altogether and into the private sector. Her
Fired Attorney General Pam Bondi still will have to appear for a slated deposition before the House Oversight Committee, members who voted to subpoena her said Thursday, even as the panel’s majority said the matter is an open question. “Attorney General Pam Bondi has been
April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day. To commemorate it, we produced a video of various mentions of our work over the years by politicians of both parties. The post Happy International Fact-Checking Day appeared first on FactCheck.org .
The president is declaring victory, while simultaneously preparing Americans for more war.
The biggest bridge in Iran was struck Thursday as President Trump vowed to escalate the war against Tehran if its leaders do not agree to a peace deal in the coming weeks. The B1 bridge in Karaj, a city in north-central Iran, was apparently hit twice, with Trump sharing a
Officials from the Cook County Department of Public Health in Illinois warned Tuesday of possible exposure to measles from a contagious individual at O’Hare International Airport and two other locations. In a press release, the department said people may have been exposed to
The ball is in Europe’s court. If you don’t want to lose the U.S. as a friend and ally, then fall in line.
President Trump on Thursday called for his core supporters to boycott Bruce Springsteen's concerts after the rock legend announced a "political and very topical" U.S. leg of his tour. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, called Springsteen a "bad, and very boring singer... who