Two Democrat-run cities in the Rockies are skirting state laws dictating which flags can be flown on government property, according to The Associated Press – and are granting particular attention to the LGBTQ Pride flag. Utah and Idaho both have laws on the books barring government buildings from flying most…
Pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with security at Columbia University’s main library on Wednesday, according to a student newspaper. The Columbia Daily Spectator reported that protestors in Butler Library’s Lawrence A. Wien Reading Room on Wednesday took part in an “Emergency Rally,” but were stopped from getting out of the room by…
A bill aimed at cracking down on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its practice of forced organ harvesting passed with overwhelming support on Wednesday – though one House lawmaker voted against it. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the lone Republican to oppose the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act, which…
I am reading a April 21, 2025 letter from Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Dr Stephen Ferrara, which provides guidance for discontinuing treatment of minors with gender dysphoria at military medical treatment facilities. After noting the Pentagon policy banning the initiation or continuation of treatment with puberty…
Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday he doesn’t think about retiring, but he once asked two longtime friends to intervene if his health is ever in decline. “I’ve sat down with them and said, I want at the appropriate time — because you don’t always notice that you’re slipping — ‘I…
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the department will consider bringing back some employees who took the government’s deferred resignation offer. (Image credit: Brendan Smialowski)
A group of blue states joined forces Wednesday to sue the Trump administration after it halted a program that federally funded electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The District of Columbia joined 16 states — including California, Colorado and Washington — in a suit over the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s efforts to…
President Trump said Wednesday he was not considering softening the 145 percent tariff on imports from China. Reporters in the Oval Office asked if the president would consider reducing levies on the foreign nation, to which he succinctly responded, “No.” In early April, the Trump administration announced reciprocal tariff exemptions…
President taps wellness influencer after withdrawing initial pick, former Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat Donald Trump has tapped Dr Casey Means, a wellness influencer with close ties to Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, as nominee for surgeon general after withdrawing his initial pick for the influential health…
We’re in the interlude between the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Derby winner Sovereignty won’t run in the Preakness coming up in Baltimore. But House Republicans aren’t skipping out on trying to finish the big, beautiful bill. And if this were a horse race, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., would…
House GOP moderates are telling Republican leaders they will not walk the plank and vote for Medicaid cuts in the party’s “big, beautiful bill” only to see the Senate strip them out — their latest warning shot in the effort to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda. In the past, GOP leaders…
Over the weekend University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced that he was leaving his post to take up the leadership of the University of Florida. It was an interesting choice. It’s been reported that Ono had been warier of resisting or challenging the dictates of the Trump administration than…
96 <!– Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care <!– The Big Story PhRMA warns against tariffs The pharmaceutical trade group PhRMA has come out strongly against tariffs, warning that every dollar collected in tariffs means one less dollar invested in U.S. biopharmaceutical…
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) asked a witness in a House hearing on transgender athletes Wednesday to play a game of “Trump or trans.” “This hearing has nothing to do with improving government efficiency,” Crockett said during the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee meeting. “It’s another attempt by Republicans to distract…
96 <!– sup, sub { font-size: 100% !important; } sup { mso-text-raise:10% } sub { mso-text-raise:-10% } Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!– The Big Story Fed holds rates steady despite Trump calls The Federal Reserve’s interest rate setting committee…
This is largely preaching to the choir. But it’s absent enough from the news coverage that is worth stating clearly. Most right-thinking people are aghast at Trump’s onslaught on higher education. The range of reasons is endlessly discussed and doesn’t need to be enumerated here. But through those discussions is…
Tensions are rapidly escalating between nuclear powers India and Pakistan after India on Tuesday struck what it says were terrorist targets deep inside Pakistan, which says its military shot down five Indian fighter jets. India on Tuesday launched what it said were retaliatory strikes against Pakistan, the most significant attack…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) banged her gavel almost 50 times in an effort to silence Ranking Democratic member Melanie Stansbury (N.M.) during a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday afternoon. The hearing, which focused on trans women in sports, devolved into heated crossfire between Democrats and Republicans on multiple occasions. However, the hearing…
96 <!– Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security <!– The Big Story 2nd F/A-18 falls into Red Sea as Houthis agree to ceasefire The Navy lost a second F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from an aircraft carrier in the Red…
New York Times reports Elon Musk’s Doge agency has created spreadsheet of federal grants earmarked for cuts The Trump administration is reportedly eyeing dozens of grants across the National Park Service for termination, according to reporting from the New York Times, one of several moves destabilizing the US’s investment in…