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President Trump said late Thursday that a deal was struck with NATO to send weapons to Ukraine, with the military alliance bearing the brunt of the cost.  “We’re sending weapons to NATO, and NATO is paying for those weapons, 100 percent,” he said in a phone interview with NBC News. “So, what we’re doing is…
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Two regional Planned Parenthood affiliates have stopped accepting Medicaid, citing a provision in the GOP’s massive tax-and-spending bill signed into law by President Trump earlier this month. The move has sparked legal challenges, patient confusion and warnings of widespread health care disruption. Planned Parenthood locations in Washington, D.C., and Colorado posted notices this week alerting patients that…
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The Democratic Party’s credibility with voters has plummeted even further since the 2024 election, raising alarm bells as the party looks to rebuild ahead of the midterms and the next presidential election, according to a new poll obtained by The Hill.  The poll, which was conducted between May and June by Unite the Country, a…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into Minnesota to determine if the state, including the Minnesota Department of Human Services, has engaged in race and sex-based discrimination in its hiring practices.  “Our investigation is based on information that Minnesota may be engaged in certain employment practices that discriminate against employees, job applicants…
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The State Department has notified its employees of upcoming mass layoffs as part of a reorganization plan to form a “more agile” department.  Michael Rigas, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, said in an internal email on Thursday that terminations to impacted workers will be sent “soon,” and added that “we want…
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The new rate is set to go into effect on August 1. Trump said it would go up if Canada retaliated.

President Trump’s former nominee to lead NASA, Jared Isaacman, said he’d be open to launching a congressional campaign after his nomination to join the second Trump administration was withdrawn.  The billionaire said he’d run as a Republican and that he’d consider serving under Trump in a different capacity — or under another Republican president in…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he discussed a new idea for a potential Ukraine ceasefire during a Thursday meeting with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.  Rubio, who also serves as President Trump’s national security adviser, confirmed that Lavrov presented new ideas about Ukraine peace negotiations during the 50-minute meeting.  “I think it’s…
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The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to pursue the job cuts.

96 <!– Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!–   The Big Story  Trump, Bolsonaro bromance persists President Trump is seeking to intervene in a political fight roiling Brazil, demanding the country drop its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro or face a 50 percent tariff…
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Lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Thursday said he knows the list of names in the Jeffrey Epstein files regarding alleged clients in his international sex trafficking ring. “I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them,” Dershowitz said during an appearance on “The Sean Spicer Show.” “But…
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) continued to distance himself from the progressive wing of his party on Thursday with a social media post defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “ICE performs an important job for our country,” he wrote on the social platform X. “Any calls to abolish ICE are [100 percent] inappropriate and outrageous.” Fetterman’s…
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Caroline Wren was slammed for repeatedly ignoring a subpoena tied to injured Capitol police officers.

Self-described “alpha man” Nick Adams will be the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia if confirmed.

Israel has concluded that some Iranian enriched uranium survived the U.S.’s recent strikes on the country, The New York Times has reported. A senior Israeli official told the Times that their country found that American and Israeli attacks did not destroy a portion of an Iranian underground stockpile of enriched uranium, with Iranian nuclear engineers…
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The United Nations (UN) is pushing back against the United States after President Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese on Wednesday.  The spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, said during a Thursday briefing that the Trump administration’s move to slap sanctions on Albanese, who…
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President Trump is seeking to intervene in a political fight roiling Brazil, demanding the country drop its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro or face a 50 percent tariff on imports to the U.S. “The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United…
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President Trump has nominated MAGA influencer and self-described “alpha male” Nick Adams to be the next ambassador to Malaysia, the White House announced in a list of recommendations sent to the Senate this week. Adams, a 40-year-old Australian native who lives in Florida, said in a video posted on the social platform X on Thursday…
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said Thursday that Americans have “legitimate questions” about airplane contrails as his agency launches webpages aimed at combatting misinformation on the topic. Contrails, the vapor trails that follow high-flying airplanes, are the subject of the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory, which baselessly alleges that the trails are actually chemicals that are used…
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(KTLA) — The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against California, alleging that three state laws are the reason behind rising egg prices in the Golden State. “The State of California has contributed to the historic rise in egg prices by imposing unnecessary red tape on the production of eggs. Through a combination of voter…
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Former Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday he doesn’t think President Trump has completely changed the Republican Party, shrugging off populist sentiment in the GOP as “a minority voice.” “I think President Trump, as presidents should, has changed aspects of the agenda of the Republican Party, but I don’t think he’s changed the Republican Party,”…
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) continued to take aim Thursday at former President Biden’s White House physician Kevin O’Connor, after the doctor would not answer questions about Biden’s health after he was called to testify this week. “When Joe Biden’s doctor was asked under oath whether he had ever been instructed to lie…
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis) said Wednesday that President Trump firmly placed his stamp on the U.S. economy with his tariff policies, and is to blame for the “uncertainty” and “chaos” that has followed. Joining MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend on “The Weeknight,” Baldwin agreed that “this is Trump’s economy now.” “And…
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) is demanding information from several major tech firms with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, which he alleges are distorting facts and producing biased results about President Trump.  Bailey sent letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta on Wednesday, asking whether they design their algorithms to disfavor certain political affiliations or…
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) exulted when the U.S. Supreme Court recently vacated several lower court injunctions against President Trump’s executive order purporting to deny birthright citizenship for the children of “illegal entrants.”  Within hours, he posted a video declaring that “birthright citizenship is a policy that doesn’t make any sense,” even though it is the first sentence of the 14th…
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