Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including users inside the US and its own employees, forcing Anthropic to block access to
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday at Chair Kevin Warsh’s first rate-setting meeting since taking the reins of the central bank. In a unanimous decision, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintained its baseline interest rate at a range of 3.5
President Trump elicited laughter from leaders at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France when he walked into a meeting on Wednesday morning and declared, “I’m the boss.” The U.S. president has been meeting with the heads of France, Canada, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom
A confirmation hearing for the president's nominee to lead FEMA turned into a Democratic blitz against Trump's record of withholding aid from blue states.
President Trump said Wednesday that oil reserves could have run out in four weeks if the Strait of Hormuz were not opened. “We run out of reserves at about four weeks,” Trump said in France while at the Group of Seven summit, discussing the recent memorandum of understanding
President Trump on Wednesday defended letting Iran maintain its large arsenal of ballistic missiles when discussing the emerging deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president said during the G7 press conference in France that the U.S. will be working with Gulf
The Trump administration’s Iran peace deal will require America to loom large over the country for many years to come. The president admitted during a press conference at the G7 summit in France Wednesday that there is nothing enforceable in the drafted agreement, but rather
A new poll found that Americans registered as Republicans are more likely to celebrate the U.S.'s 250th birthday on the Fourth of July. Gallup and the bipartisan group With Honor, in collaboration with America250, released a poll on Wednesday showing that 88 percent of GOP
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday the mother of Cape Verdean goalkeeper Vozinha has secured a visa to join her son ahead of the team’s next FIFA World Cup match. Jeffries wrote in a statement that he spoke to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and asked
President Trump joked Wednesday that he will blame Vice President Vance if the preliminary deal with Iran falls through. “I like that idea, sure,” Trump said when asked by Fox News's Peter Doocy if his vice president would take the fall if the deal fails. “If it works out, I’m
President Trump on Wednesday aired his frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France, telling the Israeli leader to hold back attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon amid high-stakes negotiations with Iran.
Hold up—did the United States actually sign a peace deal with Iran? New reporting from Axios Wednesday cast doubt on whether U.S. and Iranian leaders have actually signed Donald Trump’s deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. A senior administration official told reporters that
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that President Trump is “holding our national security hostage” by delaying the confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to serve as director of national intelligence. In an early morning Wednesday post on
The New York Police Department will deploy more than 10,000 officers for Thursday’s New York Knicks championship parade celebrating the team’s historic NBA title win — the largest number assigned to any planned event ever, according to the NYPD. Officers and law enforcement
All midterms are not the same.
Federal judges are newly blocking President Trump's moves on immigration, national parks and his $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund. Join The Hill legal affairs reporters Zach Schonfeld and Sophie Brams as they chat with Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman,
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (Va.) and other Democrats on the panel are scheduled to hold a press conference Wednesday afternoon after President Trump delayed the confirmation process for Jay Clayton. Trump
🔒 Plus: Trump considers another big change to the White House {beacon} It’s Wednesday. A 3 p.m. U.S. World Cup game on a federal holiday this Friday is going to make for quite the party — and I cannot wait. ⚽ Hopefully, Boston has enough warning to prepare so its bars don’t
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sharply criticized President Trump on Wednesday for delaying the nomination of Jay Clayton to be director of national intelligence (DNI). “What we're witnessing is an extraordinary display of dysfunction from a president who seems determined to turn
Congress has the opportunity to honor veterans by passing the Take Care of America's Veterans Act, which would improve access to mental health care, increase transparency, and modernize the VA system.
It's one thing to defend a policy. It's another to defend the real-world consequences of that policy when the facts, statistics and human stories are pushing back.
The Trump administration is trying to get rid of the first reparations program in the U.S. for Black Americans. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice asked a judge to end the program in Evanston, Illinois, offering $25,000 to the descendants of the city’s Black residents who
The Pentagon artificial intelligence chief on Monday said Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is tantamount to national security in a sworn statement that noted xAI's technology has been used throughout the Iran war. Cameron Stanley, the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer
The Trump administration is now arguing that an alleged thwarted drone attack on the White House UFC event on Sunday was an “assassination plot,” even as charging documents indicate otherwise, in an attempt to convince America that the president really does need that ballroom.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) top lawyer on Tuesday challenged acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to turn toward investigating President Trump, after the governor announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating him and his wife. Legal affairs secretary
Jay Clayton, President Trump's nominee to replace Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, is set to go before senators for his confirmation hearing Wednesday afternoon. Trump announced early Wednesday morning that Republicans were canceling Clayton's confirmation
A woman claimed she was approached by two “recruiters” who were scouting young women at Donald Trump’s Manhattan skyscraper to have sex with him—and also tried to lure her to a party at the home of Jeffrey Epstein. Buried in the Department of Justice’s massive trove of files on
The administration is expected to finalize the proposed changes as soon as this summer.
Congress is finally demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Iran. Senators are threatening to cut off Hegseth’s travel budget until the Pentagon provides more details about the deadly U.S. strike that hit a school full of children on February 28, Politico
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, plans to pursue a psychiatric defense in his state murder trial, a judge revealed Wednesday. New York Judge Gregory Carro said Mangione’s lawyers notified the court they intend to argue the
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.) on Wednesday slammed the deal between the Trump administration and Iran, two days before the two sides are set to sign it. “The details that I’ve seen so far look … awful. This will go down as a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” Cassidy told
The American experiment has endured wars, depressions and constitutional crises, but the current moment has degraded the government and the services it provides, politicized the nonpartisan, merit-based civil service and undermined the rule of law, and it is important to look
During his Wednesday confirmation hearing, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator nominee Cameron Hamilton sought to toe the line between restoring order after a turbulent year at the agency and President Trump’s desire to scale down federal disaster aid.
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Without reform, emergency practices will remain financially fragile and expose patients to preventable risk.
CBS has reached a licensing agreement with the music company that owns the famed "Peanuts" song used by late-night host Stephen Colbert during his final show last month, with the funds set to go to charity. During his last "Late Show" on CBS, Colbert made a joke about the music
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Tuesday his conference does not have enough votes to bypass the filibuster to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. “The only way you can get … this done is to nuke the legislative filibuster, and that
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that leaving the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France without holding a bilateral meeting with President Trump was not a snub. "I wouldn't take a big message from that," Carney said. "I had seven or eight discussions with
The Department of Defense revealed it used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran. In a sworn statement in federal court, the DOD’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, Cameron Stanley, defended the chatbot’s existence as a “a matter of paramount
Bessent is arguing for something Washington has spent decades avoiding: a serious American industrial policy.
The Trump administration spent nearly $15 million to rid the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool of algae. They were not successful. Within days of the pool’s refilling, the green algae hasn’t just returned but is having a “field day” thanks to high phosphate levels in the water,
President Trump appears to be completely smitten with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, professing his love for the authoritarian leader at the G7 summit in France on Wednesday. “I met him early in the campaign when Crooked Hillary and I were running against each other,
The U.S. military on Tuesday struck another boat it claimed was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two survivors. U.S. Southern Command announced the strike on social platform X, claiming that the vessel was “transiting along known
Donald Trump lashed out at former President Barack Obama as everyone turned on Trump’s peace deal with Iran. Speaking at the G7 summit Wednesday, Trump desperately tried to make his peace deal seem better than Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “He tried to bribe his
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Tuesday said he wouldn’t rule out a White House bid after nearly a decade in the upper chamber. His second term is set to end in January 2029. “I'm planning on running for the United States Senate. But if you're asking me what if a lot of people
Millions of Cubans are being forced to leave their home due to the economic crisis caused by U.S. sanctions and the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a new migration crisis.
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The president just scrambled the last week of negotiations in Congress to abet his dead voter ID bill. Donald Trump cancelled the Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton via a Truth Social post Wednesday, just hours before it was set to take place. Trump had tapped Clayton
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will close to airline traffic on July 4 after noon, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) said Tuesday. The MWAA cited aerial rehearsals, performances and fireworks that evening in restricting inbound and outbound
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) says she does “not regret” her vote to confirm conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018, but she says she is “disappointed” that he ruled with the conservative majority in 2022 to overturn the constitutional right to an