Education Secretary Linda McMahon recently referred to artificial intelligence as “A-One,” as if talking about the steak sauce. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins proposed that Americans combat high egg prices by raising chickens in their backyards. Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, is said to have shared classified military action plans on unsecured internet platforms. Incompetence in the Trump Administration is all […]

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday called for mass protests against the Trump administration and blasted the “do-nothing Democrats” who have failed to mount a stronger opposition to the Republicans in control of the federal government. “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am […]

White House border czar is expected to address reporters at a briefing on Monday morning. He is expected to address immigration and President Trump’s efforts to secure the border. On Sunday, Homan said parents of children born in the United States are not “immune” from deportation. “Having a U.S. citizen child doesn’t make you immune […]

Canadians are set to go to the polls for their federal election Monday amid a backdrop of tensions with the U.S. over President Trump’s tariff policy and rhetoric about the U.S.’s northern neighbor. In the first few months of his presidency, Trump’s tariff policy has strained relationships with longtime American allies including Canada. Late last […]

Since the very start of its invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, Russia’s government has focused a barrage of propaganda on Africa. Western governments have pushed back, while Ukraine is opening its own embassies across the continent to spread its message.   With all this activity, one would expect that the Ukraine conflict would […]

President Trump, a self-proclaimed master dealmaker, is rapidly perfecting another art form during his second term: the “strategic” retreat.  Indeed, despite building his brand as a cutthroat negotiator, Trump is demonstrating a pattern of blinking and reversing himself when the pressure mounts.  Trump’s tendency to totally switch course — whether on tariff policies, firing Federal […]

President Trump’s approval rating slipped to 41 percent in the latest CNN poll, conducted just ahead of the 100-day benchmark of the president’s second term. In the mid-April poll, released Sunday, 41 percent of respondents say they approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 59 percent disapprove. That’s down four points from […]

Former Vice President Harris will jab at President Trump in the keynote address at the Emerge gala on Wednesday, marking her first public remarks since leaving office in January, a source told The Hill. In her remarks, the former vice president, who lost to President Trump in November, is expected to offer pointed criticism of […]

Authorities on Sunday arrested a second suspect in the theft of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse at a downtown restaurant in Washington, D.C. U.S. Secret Service Miami Field Office Special Agent in Charge Rafael Barros announced the arrest shortly after the Washington field office confirmed the arrest of the first suspect […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the secret voting for two days to help them get to know one another better and find consensus on a candidate before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals […]

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration announced long-awaited bans on certain food dyes and added new warnings about sugar in processed foods. Public health advocates cheered. Parents breathed a sigh of relief. But as someone who has spent years reporting on the intersection of federal science, health and regulation, I have a warning: In […]

The Department of Justice has sued Maine over the state’s refusal to comply with the Trump administration’s efforts to ban transgender competitors from women’s athletics. The litigation accuses Maine’s Education Department of violating Title IX prohibition of sex discrimination at educational institutions receiving federal money. Contrary to the complaints of transgender activists all the way up to […]

The U.S. economy is being buffeted by a range of actions — some implemented, others threatened — by President Trump. There is no historical parallel for this. Never has a single American official created so much chaos and imposed so many self-inflicted wounds on the U.S. economy in so short a time. Some of these […]