The latest Saturday Night Live (SNL) cold open featured actors playing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh drinking at a bar in the nation’s capital. The show starts with Hegseth, played by Colin Jost, entering
President Trump has once again appeared to doze off on camera in the middle of a White House event, this time, just seconds after he spoke. Trump was joined by Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz, Republican Senator Katie Britt, philanthropist and maternal health
The House of Representatives is voting on a bill to allow nationwide, year-round sales of E15, a lower-cost gasoline blend containing 15 percent American-made ethanol, which would save drivers money and help ensure refiners are able to compete on a level playing field.
The only Democratic commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission is warning Disney that the Trump administration is trying to censor ABC. On Monday, Anna Gomez sent a letter to Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro warning that the TV network is under a “sustained, coordinated
The Republican-appointed super-majority has flatly failed the test.
A group sued over President Trump’s Reflecting Pool project on Monday, arguing the renovation at the National Mall violates environmental and preservation laws. The Cultural Landscape Foundation and its founder, Charles Birnbaum, said the blue paint coating is “altering the
MAGA fans just got screwed, again. Hundreds of thousands of people who bought into the Trump Organization’s “T1 phone” last summer are still waiting to receive their devices, with no refunds in sight. The Trump-branded cell phone was launched in June 2025, promising early
Taiwan has said it does not want "surprises" during the meeting later this week between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which the island is among the most prickly items on the agenda. Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said that Taiwan was confident
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller had a Latina girlfriend in college who was “embarrassed to be seen with him.” The Financial Times ’ deep dive into Stephen and Katie Miller offered a troubling look into how the man who’s been waging a white supremacist crackdown
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Monday that he expects Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to leave the central bank’s board of governors if he is “happy” with a forthcoming internal report on the Fed’s renovations, which have been repeatedly criticized by
Tonight, a parent will look down at her newborn and say: let’s wait. The virus will not. Neither will the bleed.
Would it have been so hard to write a simple “Happy Mother’s Day” message? Donald Trump unleashed a flood of AI-generated slop on Truth Social Sunday evening to cheer on his own flailing presidency. While Trump may have declined to publicly reference the fact that it was
The area is "prone to earthquake swarms," officials say.
For many, Memorial Day serves as the kickoff to the summer season, leading to millions throughout the United States traveling for weekend getaways.
The sights of PPE-clad passengers leaving the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Sunday may prompt flashbacks to the COVID pandemic. Health officials say that isn't exactly the case.
The analysis examined compensation at 1,500 companies across 33 countries and found the average CEO earned about $8.4 million last year.
The Roberts Court has become a partisan and ideological tool of the right-wing legal and political movement.
Authorities from the U.S. and China recently arrested five suspects in a drug smuggling and trafficking operation, according to Chinese state media. The Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced Monday that authorities in early April arrested three Americans and two
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
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is once again lashing out at Democratic Senator Mark Kelly—this time for speaking freely about just how much ammunition the U.S. military has wasted in its war with Iran. Kelly told CBS’s Margaret Brennan Sunday that it was “shocking how deep we
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,
President Trump is desperately trying to take control of America’s elections—and he wants his own personal army to do it. On Truth Social Sunday, Trump complained about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer forming an elections task force led by former Attorney General Eric
The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) 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
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
[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.] Iranian state media shed light on its negotiating team's latest demands in talks
[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
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 conscienceless 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