President Trump on Thursday said he supports the effort to allow for proxy voting for new parents, while the standoff between House GOP leadership and Rep. Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) hardens over the issue. “I don’t know why it’s controversial,” Trump said. “I’m going to let the
U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg hinted at possible contempt proceedings as he grilled a government lawyer Thursday about whether the Trump administration violated his court order by failing to turn around planes carrying migrants to a Salvadoran prison. Boasberg made
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Thursday that stops the Trump administration from pulling back more than $11 billion in public health funding from state and local health departments. Judge Mary McElroy of the federal district court in Rhode Island granted
The Senate has confirmed Mehmet Oz as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), making him the head of Medicaid at a time where its funding is at risk of being severely cut. The Senate voted 53-45 along party lines to confirm Oz. The
House Democrats led by Rep. Brad Schneider (Ill.) pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on mass layoffs at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a Wednesday letter requesting the Trump administration’s plan for slated reductions and their potential impact on taxpayer
The stock market cratered Thursday as fears of global economic slowdown driven by President Trump's new tariffs spurred Wall Street's worst day of losses since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1,679 points Thursday, closing
Two Colorado Democrats are urging renewed bipartisan support for legislation that would seek to improve working conditions for federal firefighters. Rep. Joe Neguse and Sen. Michael Bennet on Thursday called for the advancement of Tim’s Act, a bill that would overhaul wild land
A lawsuit filed earlier this week accuses tech billionaire Elon Musk and his super PAC of failing to pay canvassers who helped President Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. Musk and America PAC pledged $100 to registered voters in battleground states who signed a petition and
Donald Trump thinks everything is going just fine with his insane tariffs. In his lone statement about the tariffs Thursday, Trump didn’t seem bothered when a reporter asked him “The markets today are way down. The worst day in years. Because of the tariffs. So, how’s it
More than 80 national and local progressive groups are warning that the country is facing an “unprecedented constitutional danger” over recent attacks against judges by President Trump and his backers on Capitol Hill. The 81 groups said in a Thursday letter that Trump and his
President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have already resulted in even more GOP infighting, according to Punchbowl News. “There’s a massive disconnect between the White House and Capitol Hill Republicans on tariffs right now,” Jake Sherman wrote on X. “Here on the Hill,
President Trump triumphantly held up a poster board in the Rose Garden on Wednesday showing the reciprocal tariffs he plans to impose on nearly every country in the world. But just how the White House came up with the formula to determine what percentage of tariffs to impose
Former Vice President Mike Pence will receive the 2025 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his role in certifying the 2020 presidential election despite facing grave personal and political risk. The JFK Library Foundation, which presents the honor each year, announced
Markets tumbled Thursday following President Trump’s announcement of a general 10-percent tariff on imports to the U.S. along with additional targeted tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners. Some companies are winning big off the tariff news while others took serious hits.
President Donald Trump said in a March 30 interview that "there are methods" for him to serve a third term in the White House, and a Daily Mail article referred to a "loophole" in the 22nd Amendment that would make it possible. But legal experts told us the "loophole" legal
The unveiling of President Trump’s new tariffs included some big surprises as economists and trading partners sifted through which countries were hit the highest rates and who was spared. Questions swirled over the calculations and decisionmaking process within the White House
The illegality generally arises not in the executive orders themselves but in their implementation.
Most Americans oppose impeaching federal judges who have ruled against President Trump's spending cuts and agency closures, according to a new poll. In the Marquette University Law School poll, 70 percent of respondents said they do not back federal judges’ impeachment over
The Defense Department's internal watchdog is investigating Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of the messaging app Signal to discuss highly sensitive military information, according to a newly released memo. The probe will look at whether Hegseth complied with all Defense
President Trump on Thursday insisted that the rollout of his new reciprocal tariffs is "going really well" despite markets taking a plunge and foreign leaders appearing rattled by the prospect of a global recession. Trump, however, insisted the markets will bounce back and
A judge in the United Kingdom has ordered President Trump to pay more than $820,000 in legal fees to the company representing former British spy Christopher Steele after he unsuccessfully sued over a dossier. In 2022, Trump filed a claim against Orbis Business Intelligence, a
Canada has brutally dumped the United States over its tariffs … again. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a strong rebuke Thursday of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on nearly every country in the world. “The global economy is fundamentally different today than it was
House Democrats on the Energy and Commerce committee are demanding a hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F Kennedy Jr. about the massive layoffs happening at his agency. But so far, GOP leadership has committed to a staff-level briefing only,
The American economy is increasingly reliant on the spending of high-income households, which could pose a risk to the economy if the stock market experiences a correction.
As I write Thursday morning, the S&P 500 is down more than 4 percent. President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day liberated the stock market from nearly $3 trillion and me from $12,171 in my individual retirement account. We’re just getting started. The drop will halt as the
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) chief of staff has pleaded not guilty to DUI charges he acquired the same night President Trump delivered his joint address to Congress. Hayden Haynes, 35, appeared before D.C. Superior Court Judge Heide Herrmann via a video call, The Washington
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to cut $580 million in “wasteful spending” at the Pentagon, but the major slashes to grants and contracts will spare Elon Musk’s SpaceX, The Intercept reported Thursday. Over the past 25 years, the Pentagon’s contracts with SpaceX
Automotive giant Ford announced it will be offering employee pricing to all of its shoppers in the wake of President Trump’s new sweeping tariff package. Ford is kicking off its “From America, For America” campaign Thursday. The effort, which Ford calls the “handshake deal
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday his country will impose 25 percent tariffs on U.S. auto imports that do not comply with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on free trade. Carney said the tariffs are a direct response to President Trump’s 25 percent
Jose Gregorio Gonzalez had been detained by ICE after he accompanied his brother, Jose Alfredo Gonzalez, to a kidney dialysis appointment.
The anti-federalists, who were critics of the proposed Constitution of 1787, saw danger in total judicial independence.
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are proposing a bipartisan bill to try and rein in President Trump’s crazy tariffs . Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley and Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell, both members of the Senate Finance Committee, are co-sponsoring the “ Trade Review
Staff members who fought childhood lead exposure and those who worked on cancer clusters were among those fired from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a now former employee told The Hill. The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health
Former Vice President Mike Pence warned about the economic and political risks of the Trump administration’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs on other nations, calling them the “largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history.” Pence, who served alongside President Trump during his first
Donald Trump may attempt to run for a third term in 2028 by endorsing a loyalist GOP ticket for president and vice president, winning back the House, and becoming Speaker, or by refusing to accept electoral defeat and imposing martial law or a military coup.
Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases and sentences, according to findings published on Thursday in the journal
American companies are not “leaping” to hire new employees, as the White House promised. Instead, they’re rapidly letting them go. Stellantis—one of the Big Three automakers in the U.S.— announced Thursday that it would be laying off hundreds of U.S. workers in the wake of
The White House is rescheduling one of its annual spring garden tour dates due to a "massive" anti-Trump demonstration expected to take place near 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The spring garden tours that were scheduled for Saturday have been pushed a day later, to Sunday, the White
Senate Democrats in a Wednesday letter criticized the Trump administration’s response to a recent earthquake in Myanmar that left thousands dead. “We write with urgent concerns about the lagging U.S. response to the devastating earthquake that struck Burma and neighboring
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold funds from K-12 public schools that have programs the federal government deems are related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). A Thursday letter, addressed to top state education officials, said schools have 10 days to
The Trump administration identified 16 sites for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers Thursday on land owned by the Department of Energy. The centers comprise rows of servers providing processing capacity for machine learning, cloud storage and AI
The "Signalgate" scandal has raised concerns about the competence of the national security apparatus and the trust of the American people, as officials were caught on a call discussing classified information about airstrikes on Houthi militants in Yemen.
Multiple National Security Council staffers have been fired at the behest of MAGA conspiracy theorist and Trump loyalist Laura Loomer, according to Axios and the Associated Press . The NSC, headed by Mike Waltz, made headlines after Signalgate, in which Waltz inadvertently
A majority of Americans oppose deporting migrants who have not been convicted to El Salvador without due process, according to a new survey, as the Trump administration defends its deportation efforts amid broad scrutiny. Six in 10 respondents in a YouGov survey released
President Trump’s approval rating slipped to its lowest point during his second White House term amid his handling of the economy and the recent Houthi Signal chat leak, according to a survey published Wednesday. The new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that the president’s approval
The U.S. has gone from resisting the idea of a multipolar order to an attempt to dominate it on new terms: Less moralism, more realism.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said President Trump should run the global economy as markets plummet due to the onset of Wednesday’s tariff announcement for a range of nations. “Let Donald Trump run the global economy. He knows what he's doing. He's been talking about it for
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who's now a Fox News host, dismissed concerns about the implications of the new tariffs President Trump announced this week. "I firmly believe that it's posturing," McEnany said Thursday on "Outnumbered." "This is the great
Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary during Donald Trump’s first term, is worried about the president’s new tariffs and hoping to change them via the president’s favorite medium: television. On CNBC Thursday morning, Mnuchin tried to delicately ask for carve-outs and
