Category: The Hill

President Trump just drew a hard line against blue state climate activism — and not a moment too soon. His April 8 executive order, Protecting American Energy From State Overreach, takes direct aim at states like California, New York and Hawaii that are trying to sue American energy companies into submission. These lawsuits, funded by taxpayers, […]

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called for bipartisan support for secondary sanctions on Russian goods as President Vladimir Putin “drags his feet.” “I think we ought to take up the Graham legislation, and we ought to pass it through both houses and put those secondary sanctions on Russia,” Shaheen said of GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (S.C.) […]

House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) on Sunday said that President Trump “does not want” the “one big, beautiful bill” encompassing his agenda “to be a health care bill.” “Medicaid … all falls underneath the Energy and Commerce Committee, not Ways and Means,” Smith said when asked about cuts to Medicaid via the […]

The United States continues to facilitate peace negotiation discussions between Russia and Ukraine, but top U.S. officials, including President Trump, warned that if substantial progress is not achieved soon, Washington will pull back from its mediating role.  Trump contended that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin might not want to achieve peace in Eastern Europe after all, following a series […]

Gary Cohn, a former Trump administration economic advisor, said the president’s tariffs will be “highly regressive” and hurt the lower class the most. Cohn joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning, just after President Trump posted online that once tariffs cut in, many people who make less than $200,000 annually will see their […]

For sophisticated criminals, high-end artworks are more than just pretty pictures. Latin American cartels, a major Hezbollah financier and powerful Russian oligarchs have all exploited the luxury art world to evade sanctions and launder potentially billions of dollars globally each year. The U.S. is by far the world’s largest art market, but it is also […]

Rahm Emanuel has ramped up speculation in recent weeks that he’s plotting a 2028 presidential run, adding a prominent name in Democratic circles to an already crowded list of possible candidates. The former Chicago mayor has been making the media rounds over the past month and hasn’t ruled out several options for his political future, […]

In the late 1990s, acclaimed Cuban mystery writer Leonardo Padura captured the poignant resignation of those who chose to stay on the island, enduring hardships following both the Cuban Revolution and the Soviet Union’s collapse. Padura’s main character, Mario Conde, is a hard-boiled police detective who disdains ideology (despite majoring in “dialectical materialism” at university), […]

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said a price drop for eggs has already hit some parts of the country, but for others, it is “coming” soon. Rollins joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where she highlighted a major economic indicator: the price of eggs. Egg prices rose to a record high in March at […]

Since it was launched and started operations in 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered many secrets and the beauty of the universe. The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth. NASA states that the world in question is K2-18b, “a super […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that Democrats do not have “a vision for the future.” “You have Democrats appropriately, and I’m working with them, talking about Trump’s movement toward authoritarianism, vigorously opposing the so-called reconciliation bill to give over a trillion dollars in tax breaks for the 1 percent and make massive cuts […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he has a “great fear” that President Trump will “cave” to Russian President Vladimir Putin over ending the war in Ukraine. Schumer joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where host Dana Bash asked him about the latest developments between Trump, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as […]

(NEXSTAR) – As he’s made very apparent during his time in office, our current president loves to unwind with a round of golf. But he could easily ditch the clubs and take a dip in the White House’s very own swimming pool, if the mood should strike. The White House’s current swimming pool, just south […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the “only solution” for the war in Ukraine is a negotiation where both Russia and Ukraine “give up something.” “There is no military solution to this war,” Rubio told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.” “The only solution to this war is a negotiated settlement […]

Attacks on higher education are occurring almost daily. The Trump administration has frozen billions of dollars in federal research funding at elite universities, deported international students with little or no due process, questioned the tax-exempt status of Harvard and accused dozens of institutions of tolerating antisemitism, among other aggressive actions. The breathtaking scope of this […]

Bill O’Reilly argued that President Trump is “making a mistake” over his firm stance on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation and unwillingness to return him to the United States despite an order from the Supreme Court. O’Reilly, speaking on his “No Spin News,” said he thought Trump could be alienating the Supreme Court by not facilitating […]

Most Americans believe President Trump and Democrats are “out of touch” with the concerns of most people, a new survey found. The latest Washington Post-ABC News Ipsos poll found 60 percent of respondents believe Trump is “out of touch” with “the concerns of most people” in the country. Sixty-nine percent say the Democratic Party is […]

California’s Senate Judiciary Committee, with bipartisan support, approved Senate Bill 243 this month, requiring that AI companies “protect users from the addictive, isolating, and influential aspects of artificial intelligence chatbots.” It is the first bill of its kind in the U.S.   On the day of the bill’s hearing, its author, U.S. Sen. Steve Padilla […]

At least nine people were killed and many were injured after a man drove into a crowd at the Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, police said early Sunday morning. According to Vancouver police, a man drove into a large crowd of people gathered for the Lapu Lapu Day festival around 8:14 p.m. Police confirmed the […]

I am a human rights activist and advocate for my country — Macedonia — and for its language and its culture. As an American taxpayer, you have probably never heard of me. You might not know much about Macedonia or even be able to find it on a map. But here’s one thing you have […]