Former CIA Director John Brennan is the subject of the criminal referral to the Justice Department, with House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) writing the agency Tuesday to argue he should face charges for lying to Congress. The criminal referral centers on testimony
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Crypto market bill hits Senate roadblock Legislation to create clear rules for the cryptocurrency industry has hit a roadblock in the Senate after bipartisan negotiations broke down, leaving the bill’s path forward increasingly
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Lawmakers feel heat as shutdown snarls airports Alarm bells are going off for lawmakers after some of the nation’s busiest airports experienced scores of delays
Four other victims involved required medical treatment, and three had been released as of early Tuesday afternoon.
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump eyes staff cuts at NPS, FWS, USGS, BLM Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great Lakes, among
Republican leaders are making plans for a new, longer continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government at current levels as the government shutdown drags into its fourth week. Consensus is growing that the GOP-crafted “clean” CR to fund the government through Nov. 21 — which
President Trump on Tuesday confirmed his legal team is seeking money from his own Justice Department as compensation for past investigations into his conduct. Trump was asked about a New York Times report that his legal team is demanding $230 million in compensation. "I don't
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) filed a lawsuit Tuesday over GOP leaders’ refusal to seat a newly elected Democratic lawmaker. The suit asks a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to declare Adelita Grijalva a member of the House and allow someone else to administer the
“Constitutional rights cannot be used as a bargaining chip,” Kris Mayes wrote.
Jon Stewart on Monday said President Trump resembles a king based on several allusions made by Republicans, days after millions took to the streets on "No Kings Day." "The Daily Show" host played a series of clips of the president's allies and pundits referring to Trump as "a
Advocates are ecstatic after the Trump administration agreed to a student loan forgiveness deal that will allow millions of borrowers to see relief, a rare happy break for a group that has found few defenders in the current White House. The administration reached a deal with
A group of bipartisan senators introduced legislation Tuesday to provide limited liability protections for organizations to store evidence of child sexual exploitation in the cloud for law enforcement. The Safe Cloud Storage Act, put forward by Sens. Marsha Blackburn
Sens. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called for the U.S. to strengthen ties with Bolivia after centrist Rodrigo Paz was elected as the country’s next president on Sunday. Risch and Shaheen are the chair and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Foreign
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. further added to the Trump administration’s problematic claims about Tylenol and autism on Oct. 9, alleging during a Cabinet meeting that circumcision-related studies provide evidence that the drug causes the condition
A group of front-line House Republicans on Tuesday called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to “immediately” address the expiring enhanced ObamaCare tax credits once the government shutdown ends. Led by Reps. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) and Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), 13 lawmakers told
The Department of Defense now requires department staffers to channel all communications with Congress through the Pentagon’s central legislative affairs office. A October 15 memo, obtained by BreakingDefense , marks a change in policy for the administration, further limiting
Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great Lakes, among other places, Trump administration plans reveal. In a court filing this week, the Interior Department said it
Hunter Biden was furious when former President Obama led then-President Joe Biden off a stage during a fundraising event last year, according to a forthcoming book by ABC News's Jonathan Karl. The 44th and 46th presidents were at a June 2024 fundraiser held at the Peacock
The FTC accused Amazon of using "deceptive methods" to register millions of customers for paid Prime subscriptions.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday endorsed Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) in the state’s 2026 Senate race against GOP Sen. Susan Collins. “We think that Janet Mills is the best candidate to retire Susan Collins,” Schumer said Tuesday at a press conference.
President Trump tapped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top military aide, Army Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, to be the next Army vice chief of staff, replacing Gen. James Mingus, who has been in the post for less than two years. The Senate received LaNeve’s nomination to be
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday decried the Trump administration’s new ballroom construction project, which is being funded by private donors. “So The People's House is basically being sold to the highest bidder. It is corruption at its core,”
Graham Platner, an upstart Democratic candidate running to challenge Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins, reportedly acknowledged that his skull-and-crossbones tattoo is a Nazi military symbol. Jewish Insider reported Tuesday that an acquaintance of Platner’s had heard the
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday the U.S. signed its $20 billion “economic stabilization” agreement with Argentina to prop up the South American nation's crumbling economy. “As we work to stabilize and secure the Western Hemisphere and Make America Safe Again, the
The wrecking of part of the White House’s East Wing to make way for President Trump’s ballroom is striking a nerve with his critics who see it as an overhaul of a historic building for a gaudy personal project. Images of an excavator tearing into parts of the White House went
Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s (D-N.J.) gubernatorial campaign announced on Tuesday that former President Barack Obama will join her on the campaign trail in Newark on Nov. 1. “President Obama reminds us what we can accomplish when we leaders are unafraid to take on big challenges to
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed the Trump administration over its peace deal in Gaza, alleging that the damage far outweighs the progress made in recent weeks. The Vermont senator said President Trump has “continued the policies” begun under the Biden administration that
Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week. “We are creating an environment of failure, so people are prone to make poor choices to survive, and then they're thrown in prison and treated
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote in her new book that she "saw no such decline" in former President Biden's cognitive ability and health before he dropped out of the 2024 election. "I was technically a part of the president's inner circle and saw
Donald Trump is reportedly trying to loot the federal government to the tune of $230 million. That’s how much he’s demanding from the Department of Justice in compensation for past federal probes of his misdeeds, according to a Tuesday report in The New York Times . The Times ’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday went after GOP leaders for refusing to seat a newly elected Democrat, saying the delay is depriving hundreds of thousands of Americans a voice in Washington. “It's a disgrace that Mike Johnson and Republicans continue to
OpenAI announced Tuesday it is launching a ChatGPT-powered web browser called Atlas that will compete directly with widely used Google Chrome.
It looks like former CIA Director John Brennan is next up on Trump’s long list of political retribution targets. As the conservative magazine The Federalist first reported on Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday referred Brennan to the Justice Department for
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he was not invited to lunch at the White House with other Republican senators, after President Trump noted his absence. "I actually wasn’t invited to the White House lunch today, but that’s ok," Paul posted on social media. Instead, Paul said
A poll from Virginia Commonwealth University released Tuesday shows tight margins in the state’s governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general races two weeks out from Election Day. Democratic gubernatorial nominee and former Rep. Abigail Spanberger holds the widest lead
Harvard University is drastically reducing its Ph.D. student admission slots, according to the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson. Over the next two years, the Faculty of Arts & Sciences' (FAS) Science division will see a more than 75 percent cut in Ph.D. admission slots,
President Trump is facing growing calls to withdraw the nomination of Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel after the nominee reportedly referred to himself as having a “Nazi streak” while making other racist comments. Ingrassia, 30, made the comments in a text
The posthumous memoir from Virginia Giuffre shares her experiences at the hands of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.
William and Kate “can’t abide” Prince Andrew and don’t want him near their new “forever home."
A federal grand jury in Maryland on Oct. 16 returned an indictment against former National Security Adviser John Bolton for mishandling classified national defense information obtained during his tenure in the first Trump administration. Here, we'll provide information about
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) on Monday addressed claims that he has a "hidden Nazi tattoo" on his chest based on a family video shared online. "I am not a secret Nazi," Platner told "Pod Save America" co-host Tommy Vietor, during a conversation about since-deleted
Republicans are still playing the blame game on the subject of political violence—even as a pardoned January 6 rioter attacks one of their colleagues. House Speaker Mike Johnson brushed off assassination threats against Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Tuesday, claiming
Tylenol maker Kenvue is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to back off a proposed safety label change to acetaminophen after the Trump administration linked its use during pregnancy to autism. In response to a citizen petition filed last month, the company said
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky argued Tuesday that President Trump’s decision to refrain from sending long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine deflated Russia’s interest in engaging in diplomacy that could lead to the potential end of the war in Eastern Europe.
A veteran who claims former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) stole thousands of dollars from a fundraiser for his dying dog in 2016 slammed President Trump commuting the convicted felon’s sentence. Navy veteran Richard Osthoff told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing on Monday that he had not
As of Tuesday, the government shutdown has tied for the second-longest on record.
Republican state senators in North Carolina have answered President Donald Trump’s plea to gerrymander the state’s congressional map so the GOP may maintain its tenuous U.S. House majority in 2026. The state Senate on Tuesday passed a Trump-approved map that—if adopted, as
Property crime in major U.S. cities dropped 8 percent last year, but it remains relatively high in some of the cities recently targeted by President Trump’s threats of federal intervention. While violent crime is relatively low in the West Coast cities of Portland, Ore., and
The White House on Tuesday dismissed criticism of the recent demolition of part of the East Wing as "manufactured outrage." In a detailed press release, the White House accused the press of “clutching their pearls” over President Trump’s planned ballroom, calling it “a bold,