President Trump said Thursday he was glad former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was retiring from Congress at the end of her term, deriding her as an “evil woman.” “I think she’s an evil woman. I’m glad she’s retiring. I think she did the country a great service by retiring,” Trump told reporters in the Oval…
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A MAGA supporter who voted for the president three times says she doesn’t “see the best economy right now.”
President Trump on Thursday will welcome Kazakhstan into the Abraham Accords, the agreements centered around normalizing ties with Israel, two sources confirmed to The Hill. Israel and Kazakhstan have had diplomatic relations since 1992, and it’s not clear what benefit Astana will get from joining the accords — although it provides a forum for greater cooperation…
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The president’s claim about falling food prices didn’t match the numbers… or Americans’ thoughts on the supermarket.
A coalition of civil society groups are pressuring Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to greenlight the full repeal of U.S. sanctions in Syria, a key priority for President Trump. While a bipartisan and bicameral coalition is working to include a full repeal of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act…
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Thursday she will retire from Congress at the end of the term in January 2027, putting a bookend on a nearly four-decade, history-making tenure in the House. “With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative,” Pelosi said in a video posted…
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It. Was. Quite. The. Reaction.
A pharmaceutical executive collapsed in the Oval Office during a press conference about weight-loss medications.
Video of the event shows Dr. Mehmet Oz coming to the aid of the man. Trump slowly stood up from behind the Resolute Desk and watched.
A White House guest who was attending President Trump’s announcement about lowering the cost of obesity drugs fainted in the Oval Office, causing the event to be cut short. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement shortly after that the man was OK and identified him as a representative of one of…
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Trump took credit for a Biden-era program Thursday, while saying Biden couldn’t have done it.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said she was optimistic about the prospect of negotiating an end to the government shutdown after President Trump acknowledged on Wednesday that the ongoing standoff likely hurt Republicans on the ballot in Tuesday’s elections. “I thought the president was pretty frank this morning about the fact that, you know, they lost,…
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President Donald Trump held a lavish party at his Mar-a-Lago resort mere hours before millions of Americans lost their federal food benefits.
The Trump administration announced its newest pharmaceutical agreement under its Most Favored Nation policy Thursday, striking deals with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to sell their GLP-1 products at discounted prices. According to senior administration officials, the two manufacturers have agreed to sell their injectable GLP-1 products for a monthly starting price starting of $245 for people on Medicare and Medicaid, as well as…
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in a new interview raised concerns over the U.S. economy as inflation increases, saying he sees a “weakening” in the job market. “The lower income wages haven’t gone up for a long period of time,” Dimon told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an interview that aired Wednesday. “There’s … weakening in…
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has been moved to a “low security” prison in New Jersey after spending time at a Brooklyn detention center. On Oct. 30, Combs was transferred to FCI Fort Dix, where he will likely serve the rest of his 50-month prison sentence after being found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Diddy’s new home has drug rehab program Diddy’s lawyers asked the judge in his case…
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is declaring that Tuesday’s elections in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and other states were a total “disaster” for Republicans and “terrible for America.” “Look, last night was a disaster. It was an electoral blowout. The results in New Jersey were disastrous, the results in Virginia were terrible,” Cruz told Fox…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will give remarks as the record government shutdown stretches into its 37th day. Democrats, despite the lapse in funding, are celebrating Tuesday’s sweeping election victories as a signal that voters may be turning on President Trump and Republicans ahead of next year’s midterms. They have also renewed their confidence,…
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GOP Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) on Wednesday said Republicans face a “bloodbath” in midterm elections if they don’t get moving on President Trump’s agenda. “If we sit back on defense and if we side with the moderates and if we undermine President Trump, then it will be a bloodbath in the midterms and that will…
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President Trump on Thursday morning is set to announce new deals he made with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk that would lower the price of some GLP-1 weight loss medications. Trump’s strategy to lower prescription drug prices has been put to the test in recent months after he rolled out an executive order earlier…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday clarified his remarks warning that China would “win the AI race,” suggesting Beijing is close behind the U.S. on artificial intelligence technology and that it is “vital” for Washington to pull ahead. In an interview with the Financial Times, Huang offered a stark assessment: “China is going to win…
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The MSNBC host delivered a scorching monologue Wednesday about this week’s various elections.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) brushed off claims from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) that the Georgia Republican is on a “revenge tour” within the GOP. Greene in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill” on Wednesday night denied that she wanted to run for Senate in Georgia, as Ocasio-Cortez asserted, calling the upper chamber a place…
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October job cuts are the highest for the month since 2003, according to a Thursday report from analyst Challenger, Gray and Christmas. Employers’ job cuts totaled 153,074 for the month of October, marking a 174 percent increase from this time last year. “This is the highest total for October in over 20 years, and the…
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced on Thursday that she will not seek reelection after serving for nearly four decades in the lower chamber. Meanwhile, the government shutdown hit a new record of 37 days as millions of Americans are poised to feel the heat after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it would…
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