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The Central Intelligence Agency said COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak in China in a Saturday statement, pivoting from a previously neutral stance just a few days after Director John Ratcliffe was sworn in, multiple outlets report. “CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than...

A coalition of Democratic lawmakers expressed their concerns with President Trump’s Friday decision to fire independent inspectors general.  “We write to express our grave concern about your recent attempt to unlawfully and arbitrarily remove more than a dozen independent, nonpartisan inspectors general without notice to Congress or the public and in the dead of night,”...

Comedian Bill Maher said Democrats are at fault for President Trump’s "cool" status following his first full week in office. “Here’s how bad the Democrats f***** up: Trump is cool now,” Maher declared during a Friday episode of Max’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” “He’s not just the most powerful guy in the world and...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has invited President Trump to give his first address to Congress on March 4.  “Your administration and the 119th Congress working together have the chance to make these next four years some of the most consequential in our nation’s history,” Johnson wrote in a Saturday letter to the president. “To...

President Trump on Saturday touted his campaign promise for tax-free tips and thanked Nevada voters for delivering his win as he stopped for a victory lap in the battleground state that flipped red for the first time in decades in November. "In the coming weeks, I'll be working with Congress to get a bill on...

President Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship is dividing House Republicans, highlighting internal differences on the thorny topic of immigration just as the GOP is making gains with Hispanic voters. Many conservatives, wary that birthright citizenship has been abused by those living in the country illegally, are backing Trump’s executive order, which has become a...

Seven Democratic senators voted to confirm South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) as the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), allowing her to lead an agency that will be paramount to President Trump's plan to crack down on illegal immigration during his second White House term. Noem’s nomination was approved with a 59-34...

Democratic strategist James Carville urged party members to allow President Trump to “punch himself out” during his first few weeks in office. “He just says anything that he wants to say,” Carville said during a Friday appearance on MSNBC. "He's just going to keep plowing through," Carville continued. "And what we have to learn as...

President Trump visited Las Vegas Saturday after a whirlwind first few days in the Oval Office, filled with executive orders and travel across the country as his agenda and Cabinet takes form in Washington. "I’m really going to Nevada to thank them for the vote, because we won Nevada overwhelmingly and that’s usually a Democratic...

President Trump’s cabinet picks were readily ushered into the new administration after this week’s Senate confirmation hearings. Republicans showed their dominance in both legislative bodies by swiftly approving the president’s top nominees for national security posts in addition to immigration and border security measures. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was narrowly confirmed due to an evenly...

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spare some migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean from being deported under the new administration’s immigration guidelines. The South Florida Congresswoman asked the acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman to continue “protecting” Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans who do not...

The Republican Party is at a critical crossroads, facing electoral hurdles in 2028 and potential losses in the House of Representatives, while Democrats are poised to win both the 2028 and 2032 elections due to historical and strategic realities.

President Trump is set to deliver remarks about the economy in Las Vegas Saturday, where he will likely tout his campaign promise to implement a no-tax-on-tips plan. In his first visit to the state since taking office, Trump is expected to discuss his initiative to exempt tips from federal taxes, which he initially launched in...

Former national security adviser John Bolton claimed during an interview that the decision to revoke Secret Service protection is part of President Trump’s “retribution campaign” against his current critics. “I think this kind of attitude by Trump shows that what his real motivation was entirely political,” Bolton said during his Friday appearance on NewsNation. "This is...

We urge policymakers and the public to support new, prominent warnings for alcohol that adequately inform consumers that alcohol increases cancer risk.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) argued that Democrats who attended President Trump’s Inauguration on Monday were sending the "wrong message." Omar joined CNN’s “The Source” on Thursday evening and was asked by host Kaitlan Collins about the number of Democrats who attended Trump’s swearing-in ceremony, instead of skipping the event. “I think there were some exceptions...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said in an interview that it would be a “great mistake” to put conditions on federal disaster aid for victims of the ravaging wildfires. “I respectfully submit that that will be a great mistake to put any conditions on aid to a state that's suffering from a natural disaster....

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said she believes President Trump is fixing a lack of government transparency by releasing the files related to former President Kennedy’s assassination. “This was something, as you just said, that the president had spoken about on the campaign trail, and quite frankly, for decades, there has really been no good reason...

The mayor of Newark, N.J. slammed the “egregious” raid by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who, he says, raided a local establishment and detained undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens. Mayor Ras Baraka said ICE performed the Thursday raid without a warrant and the military veteran who was detained “suffered the indignity of...

The Associated Press said in updated guidance that it will use President Trump’s name change for Denali but not the Gulf of Mexico. In an announcement Thursday, Amanda Barrett, the AP’s vice president of standards and inclusion, said the outlet will adhere to some of the new name changes, but not all. Trump signed an...

Two Massachusetts Democrats sent a letter to various regulators asking them to open an investigation into President Trump's and first lady Melania Trump's recently launched meme coins. The letter, signed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), was sent to the Office of Government Ethics, the Department of the Treasury, the Securities...

Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth paid his sexual assault accuser $50,000 in a settlement agreement with the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, according to a source familiar with the matter. Hegseth is accused of a 2017 sexual assault by Doe, who met him at a Republican conference in October of that year at a...

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.” Ogles proposed an amendment on Thursday that says, "No person shall be elected to the office...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story  Trump stares down Feb. 1 tariff deadline President Trump promised steep tariffs on longtime trading partners on Day 1. But they never materialized, raising questions about his trade agenda after months of threats. © Julia Demaree...