Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said that a story in which he was reported to discuss New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in The Times of London newspaper was "false and fabricated." “I want to be 100% clear: The story in the Times of London is entirely
President Trump on Wednesday appeared to rule out seeking a third term, acknowledging that the Constitution is “pretty clear” that he is not allowed to run again. “It’s a very interesting thing. I have the best numbers for any president in many years,” Trump told reporters
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said that President Trump seeking another term in the White House is “very unlikely, but don’t ever close the book on” the president. “Senator, is it constitutional for President Trump to run for a third term? He's teasing that,” a reporter asked
This is a lightly edited transcript of the October 28 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon . You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: Good afternoon. This is the R ight Now podcast by T he New Republic and I’m the host Perry
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Pentagon moves to fire civilian workers with ‘speed and conviction’ The Pentagon has pulled key protections for its civilian personnel, directing
The White House on Tuesday fired the members of the Commission of Fine Arts, a federal agency that advises on architectural developments in Washington, D.C. "We are preparing to appoint a new slate of members to the commission that are more aligned with President Trump's
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) said Monday that he does not “begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical” about him as Election Day nears. “I don’t begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical, because they’ve also lived through tens of millions of dollars of
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story 5 GOP senators help pass bill to strike Trump's Brazil tariffs The Senate voted 52 to 48 to pass the resolution sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rand Paul
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Nvidia CEO touts Trump at 'Super Bowl of AI' Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offered praise for President Trump and his energy and manufacturing policies on Tuesday, even borrowing the president’s signature phrase and thanking the crowd
Five Senate Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday night to pass a resolution terminating President Trump’s emergency authority to impose steep tariffs on Brazil, one of the biggest exporters of coffee to the United States. The Senate voted 52 to 48 to pass the resolution
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care The Big Story CMS touts $50 ObamaCare premiums The Trump administration on Tuesday touted the affordability of 2026 ObamaCare plans, the first public rebuttal to counter claims of skyrocketing premiums without an
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday reused an insult to criticize a congressional Republican who filed a report on former President Biden's use of an autopen. “The so-called chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, continues to behave like a
It's official: The federal government will not send out November SNAP benefits if the shutdown continues into the weekend. But what happens to benefits already on EBT cards?
They were sold in 2.5-pound cheese wheels by Twin Sisters and re-packaged into 5 and 6-ounce half-moon-shaped pieces by the Peterson company.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Tuesday encouraged liberal billionaire George Soros to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through November. Days before those benefits run out on Saturday as a result of the government shutdown, Rollins told
The U.S. Air Force's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron captured footage of the towering walls inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Monday, before "heavy turbulence" forced them back, the division said in a statement.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offered praise for President Trump and his energy and manufacturing policies Tuesday, even borrowing the president’s signature phrase and thanking the crowd at Nvidia’s conference in Washington for “making America great again.” Huang brought the
The shutdown debate over expiring enhanced ObamaCare subsidies has put Republicans on the defensive over health care, reopening old wounds over the 2017 attempt to repeal and replace the law. Fifteen years since the Affordable Care Act was passed, the scars from the repeal
The Pentagon has pulled key protections for its civilian personnel, directing managers to move with “speed and conviction” to fire underperforming workers, according to a memo issued one day before the U.S. government shut down. “Supervisors and human resources (HR)
Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) on Tuesday introduced a bill to fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) during the government shutdown, as the funding lapse threatens payments of benefits if it continues. It comes after the Trump
You should take the Trump administration’s most recent immigration numbers with a grain of salt. On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it had deported more than 527,000 people as of Monday, and an additional 1.6 million people had voluntarily
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said she found some accounts from impacted federal employees “very affecting.”
Starting Saturday, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for millions are in jeopardy as the impacts of the weeks-long federal government shutdown expand. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the food stamp program, said last week it
Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally — to accept Republicans’ “clean” stopgap to reopen the government. It is the latest display of how outside pressure and deadlines have failed to move
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) urged donors Tuesday to stop giving money to the state's redistricting measure on the ballot this election. An email from Newsom to donors obtained by The Hill notes that the governor's team has "hit our budget goals and raised what we need in
Almost two-thirds of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s White House ballroom plan, according to a poll. In the Yahoo/YouGov poll, 61 percent of respondents said they did not support Trump's plan to add a ballroom, while 25 percent backed the move. The demolition of the
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is leading incumbent New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) in the New York gubernatorial race, according to polling. In a poll released Tuesday, the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, finds Stefanik getting 43 percent support compared to
Vice President Vance told reporters after the Tuesday Senate Republican policy lunch that 1.3 million military service members will get paid at the end of this week, despite the government shutdown that has dragged on for 28 days. “Will the troops get paid on Friday? Yes, we
Police in Virginia say an incident in which is appeared that a group of people wearing Halloween masks terrorized a family during a burglary attempt was, in fact, a prank.
Top House Democrats charged Tuesday that President Trump’s decision to withhold food aid funding during the shutdown is not only callous, but also illegal. The Democrats are pointing to a rolling contingency fund for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), saying
Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, this week expressed opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to boost Argentine beef imports. Smith, in a Southeast Missourian op-ed published Monday, said he told President Trump in a recent
The Trump administration over the weekend fired Steven Hatfill, a senior adviser to the administration who opposed the COVID-19 vaccines and promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed to The Hill that
Police say a San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputy was fatally shot Monday while responding to a domestic violence incident in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Deputy Andrew Nunez was pronounced dead at an area hospital after he was shot in the head by a man who later led
The Trump administration can’t fire federal workers while the government is shut down, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Tuesday afternoon. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston’s ruling grants a preliminary injunction preventing firings while a lawsuit challenging their
Nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump administration for failing to salvage SNAP benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown. Approximately 42 million Americans—about one in eight people—who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program stand to go hungry
New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani holds a commanding lead over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who is running as an independent, according to a poll released one week before Election Day. The five-day Manhattan Institute survey, which closed Sunday,
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia on Monday as an alternative to the nonprofit-powered Wikipedia. Musk’s version is backed by xAI but still uses Wikipedia as a source on most subjects. The subsections and citations on Grokipedia resemble that of its predecessor but refrain from
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen claimed Tuesday that Unilever stopped the company from creating an ice cream “flavor for Palestine.” “Unilever / Magnum stopped Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine — so I’m doing it myself,” Cohen said in a post Tuesday on
President Donald Trump’s administration is about to ruin a lot of people’s credit. A new interpretative rule set published Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will force people to include their medical debt and non-conviction criminal records on their consumer
A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Trump’s efforts to lay off thousands of federal employees amid the government shutdown. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, an appointee of former President Clinton, sided with government employee unions that asked her to bar
The Department of Justice has begun reviewing all of former President Biden’s pardons, in an effort to delegitimize anything he did as president and make Donald Trump’s previously pardoned political enemies more vulnerable. “My team has already initiated a review of the Biden
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is taking shots at Republicans’ lack of action in reopening the government, directing her ire at White House staff and House Speaker Mike Johnson. Greene expressed her frustrations on a House Republican conference call Tuesday, saying that
OpenAI has completed a restructuring of the company, converting its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation and giving its nonprofit a controlling stake, the ChatGPT maker announced Tuesday. It also signed a new agreement with Microsoft, a major investor in the AI
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told President Trump's nominee for inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that his professional history has raised "serious doubt" about his ability to be an "impartial investigator" for the agency. In a letter
The vice president spoke after a Senate GOP lunch where he got an earful about the administration’s plan to import Argentinian beef.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said on Monday that she does not intend to increase taxes following a recent rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani where chants of "tax the rich" were heard. Hochul, in an interview with Fox News's Jessica Tarlov on her "Raging
The Hunters wrote on social media Tuesday that they were forced to turn back from another mission into the eye of Melissa due to "heavy turbulence."
Senior U.S. Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino was ordered to appear in federal court on weekdays until Nov. 5 to give a daily update on immigration enforcement operations in Chicago amid scrutiny. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ordered Bovino to comply with her request in