President Trump praised a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) panel’s vote to change guidance for hepatitis B vaccinations as a “very good decision” in a Friday night post on his social platform Truth Social. “Today, the CDC Vaccine Committee made a very good decision to END their Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation for babies, the vast…
“We want Europe to remain European,” a new national security plan reads.
Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said Friday a “very aggressive” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer used pepper spray against her during a raid in Tucson, Ariz. According to Grijalva, community members in Tucson had stopped approximately 40 ICE officers, most of whom were masked, in the middle of a street near Taco Giro, which Grijalva…
“These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country. They have destroyed Minnesota,” Trump said Wednesday.
Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) said Friday he will lift his remaining holds on President Trump’s nominees to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the department approved disaster recovery funds for his state. Budd had holds on Sean Plankey, who was nominated to be director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Pedro Allende,…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said President Trump’s voters may be an issue for the Republican Party during next year’s midterms because this “big pool” of people may not show up to vote without him on the ballot. “I think Republicans have an issue that Donald Trump has created a big pool of voters, but…
It could be the light, but in addition to the now-familiar bandage covering the bruise, the president’s hand appeared more than a little swollen.
Vice President Vance shared a list of the three progressive politicians who he said, in an interview with NBC News published Thursday, he has come to appreciate. In a wide-ranging interview that touched on his marriage, his chances of running in 2028 and antisemitism in the United States, Vance said he has come to appreciate…
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release jury transcripts from Florida’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith made the order in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the DOJ to release all of its information on Epstein. President Trump signed…
The New Democrat Coalition on Friday urged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign over an unclassified inspector General report that found he endangered service members by communicating about sensitive military intelligence in a Signal group chat. “Time and time again, the Secretary has lied, dodged, deflected, and shockingly scapegoated his subordinates,” New Democrat Chair Brad…
Pawlenty acknowledged there is danger in “stigmatizing any ethnic group, any racial group, any religious group.”
The new map splits Indianapolis into four to help the GOP potentially win all nine Indiana congressional seats.
“The numbers are beyond any numbers,” Trump said in his acceptance speech.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is expressing concern about Netflix’s planned acquisition of moviemaker Warner Bros., saying the deal could raise major questions about antitrust and competitive imbalance. “This deal looks like an anti-monopoly nightmare,” Warren said Friday in a statement. “A Netflix-Warner Bros. would create one massive media giant with control of close to half…
Will the justices throw out a bedrock legal principle that has defined American citizenship for over a century?
The Indiana state House passed a new set of congressional lines Friday that would add two Republican pickup opportunities ahead of 2026. The new map, which was only introduced by Republicans just days ago, passed by a 57-41 vote and would favor Republicans in all nine congressional districts. Specifically, it would weaken the 1st Congressional…
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Thursday condemned President Trump’s remarks about Somali immigrants in which he described the group as “garbage.” Walz said it was “unprecedented for a United States president.” “We’ve got little children going to school today who their president called them garbage,” he added, according to The Associated Press. Minnesota is…
President Trump was honored Friday with the first FIFA Peace Prize, an award created by the global soccer governing body ahead of next year’s World Cup, which will take place partly in the United States. FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who has spent months ingratiating himself with Trump, bestowed the award during a drawing to determine…
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday warned in her dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court’s approval of Texas’s congressional map could violate voters’ rights enshrined in the Constitution. In her dissent with fellow liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Kagan wrote that the high court intervened “based on its perusal, over a…
The decision will hand Trump even more autocratic power than he already has.
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would codify current restrictions on AI chip sales to China, preventing the Trump administration from licensing more advanced chips for more than two years. The Secure and Feasible Exports (SAFE) Chips Act, put forward by Sens. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), would direct…
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12:30 Report is The Hill’s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. In today’s issue: Happy Friday! It’s snowing today, and it’s magical!! ❄️ 📺NEWS THIS MORNING Netflix is taking over the world: Netflix announced today an agreement to buy Warner Bros. for $72 billion. That means the company, which already has more than 300 million paid subscribers,…
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The Commerce Department on Friday reported core prices increased by 2.8 percent compared to September of last year, excluding food and energy costs. The monthly rise in costs was measured at 0.2 percent. In total, consumer spending increased by $65.1 billion. Most of the growth came from service expenditures, including a 15.4 percent increase in…
President Trump will give remarks Friday morning while attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Trump, not long after his administration took the reins of the center, announced in August that the draw would take place at the performing arts venue. The event determines the matchups during the…
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro rebuffed Sen. Mark Warner’s (D-Va.) comments about the arrest of a man connected to pipe bombs planted outside the Republican and Democratic party offices in Washington in 2021, calling the lawmaker’s analysis “dumb.” “Maybe he should talk about the fact that the Biden administration had this…