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GOP pollster finds support for Trump tax proposals in most key Senate battlegrounds
An internal poll conducted by GOP pollster Fabrizio Ward found support for President Trumpโs tax proposals in most Senate battleground states ahead of the upcoming budget reconciliation battle in Congress, according to a source in the room when the data was shared Thursday with Senate chiefs of staff. The source said Fabrizio highlighted the need...
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Supreme Court rules Trump administration must 'facilitateโ return of mistakenly deported man
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to lift a judgeโs order requiring the Trump administration to โfacilitateโ the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. The courtโs emergency ruling instructs the lower judge to clarify the language of her order but said she acted properly in ensuring that Kilmar Abrego Garciaโs case is handled โas...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:U.S. stocks dove as Wall Street euphoria reverted to concern over U.S.-China trade war
The losses for U.S. stocks accelerated Thursday after the White House clarified that the United States will tax Chinese imports at 145 percent, not the 125 percent rate that President Donald Trump had written about in his posting on Truth Social Wednesday.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Trump defends enormous tariffs on China as markets take another dip
Markets dropped again Thursday as investors and businesses focused on the escalating U.S.-China trade war and what it could mean for the economy. For his part, President Trump showed no immediate signs of easing the Chinese tariffs. John Yang reports.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:All eyes on Medicaid
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story House adopts budget resolution. Now eyes turn to Medicaid House Republicans on Thursday adopted the Senateโs framework that will be used to enact key parts of President Trumpโs legislative agenda, like an extension of his first term tax...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Trump-China trade war escalates
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Stocks slide as Trumpโs trade war spooks Wall Street Stocks slid Thursday as President Trumpโs escalating trade war with China and concerns about its economic implications continued to rattle Wall Street. AP All three major...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Solution to U.S.-China trade war ‘may take a while,’ AEI’s Derek Scissors says
Markets flashed more warning signs over the enormous tariffs placed on Chinese imports by President Trump. To discuss the concerns around China's trade relationship with the U.S., Amna Nawaz spoke with Derek Scissors, a senior fellow for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:House Republicans pass budget framework to begin work on Trump’s congressional agenda
In a dramatic vote, House Republicans passed a $5 trillion budget framework that kick starts the process for President Trumpโs agenda on Capitol Hill. It came less than a day after hard-line conservatives refused to support it. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Ksenia Karelina released to U.S. in prisoner swap with Russia
In our news wrap Thursday, Russian-American Ksenia Karelina was released to the U.S. in a prisoner swap after 14 months in Russian captivity, well over 200 people are confirmed dead from a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims his agencies will identify the cause of autism by September of this year.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:How Republicans got from 'DEAD ON ARRIVAL' to 'yes' on the Trump budget blueprint
As the fate of President Trumpโs agenda hung in the balance in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) turned to what he knows best: prayer. At the end of an hours-long, late-night meeting that came after Johnson was forced to scrap a key vote Wednesday night, the Speaker, a devout Southern Baptist, led a group...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Food banks feel the pain from higher prices and cuts to government programs
President Trump's tariffs mean Americans can expect to see even higher prices on items ranging from coffee to fruits and cheese. It comes at a time when food banks nationwide are reporting record levels of need and after the USDA halted more than $500 million in deliveries to those food banks. Deema Zein reports.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Militaryโs โforever chemicalโ use leaves lasting scars
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story How the military's use of PFAS impacted communities Colorado Springs and its suburbs in El Paso County are surrounded not only by natural wonders like the Garden of the Gods, a massive park filled with red rock formations, but also several military installations, including Peterson Space...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Trump directs DOJ to investigate former administration officials who criticized him
President Trump signed executive orders Wednesday targeting two former aides who criticized him. Escalating his retribution campaign, the president directed the Justice Department to investigate Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security official, and Christopher Krebs, a top cybersecurity official. Both were appointees in Trumpโs first term. White House correspondent Laura Barrรณn-Lรณpez reports.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Ditch the switch? Senators debate future of daylight saving time
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Senegal struggles to cope with climate change despite promises of help from other nations
In 2009, a group of wealthy nations committed to helping less developed countries cope with the effects of climate change. But where the $100 billion goes has been tough to verify and critics say the effort has done little to help the people who need it most. With support from the Pulitzer Center, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on efforts to combat climate change and alleviate poverty in Senegal.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Musician Nile Rodgers reflects on the roots of his artistry
For decades, legendary photographer Platon has been taking portraits of some of the worldโs most prominent people, from heads of state, to movie stars and everything in between. He recently started filming his photo shoots in which he gets his subject talking in a most disarming way. We share Platonโs dialogue with musician Nile Rodgers for our arts and culture coverage, CANVAS.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:RFK Jr. considering 'framework' for Medicaid, Medicare coverage of GLP-1s
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is considering a โregulatory frameworkโ for Medicare and Medicaid to cover GLP-1 medications to treat obesity. Kennedy said in a CBS News interview that aired Wednesday the high cost of the medication is the biggest hurdle to coverage, but he said heโs considering...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:6 people die in NYC helicopter crash
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says a family of Spanish tourists, including three children, died Thursday in a helicopter crash in the Hudson River.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Percentage of 'thriving' Americans mired at 5-year low: Gallup
The percentage of โthrivingโ Americans is at a five-year low, according to a Gallup poll. The poll found 48.9 percent of respondents said they are โthriving,โ staying at a five-year low previously recorded in November 2024 and September 2023. Since December 2020, there has not been a percentage of respondents lower than 48.2 percent that...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:CDC officials start planning for the splintering of their agency
Several parts of CDC โ mostly those devoted to health threats that aren't infectious โ are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency official told senior leaders in calls and meetings.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:FDA reverses course on telework after staff reductions threaten basic operations
A spokeswoman for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the administration is returning to โpre-COVID telework arrangements for reviewers, whose read and write work output is tracked in 15-minute increments to ensure productivity and accountability.โ
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Stocks slide as Trump's trade war with China spooks Wall Street
Stocks slid Thursday as President Trumpโs escalating trade war with China and concerns about its economic implications continued to rattle Wall Street. All three major stock indexes lost a significant portion of their gains from a Wednesday rally, which came in the wake of Trumpโs decision to shift the focus of his sweeping tariff plans....
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:RFK Jr.: 'By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic'
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a โmassive testing and research effortโ that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said will determine the cause of rising childhood autism rates in the country. During a meeting of President Trumpโs Cabinet on Thursday, Kennedy said the process will involve โhundreds of scientists around...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:FDA to phase out some animal testing requirements, possibly replace them with AI models
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it plans to phase out animal testing requirements for biological products and drugs, instead moving toward alternative testing models such computer simulations and "organoids." The agency said in a release that its animal testing requirements would be "reduced, refined, or potentially replaced using a range of approaches,"...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Gabbard: '100 people' working 'around the clock' on RFK, MLK assassination files
Director of National Intelligence Tusli Gabbard has been working with over 100 people to scan and release government documents related to the 1968 assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:10 Palestinians released from Israeli detention say they suffered abuse
The 10 men, all dressed in grey sweatpants and shirts, were brought by bus to a hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah, where they were welcomed by family members.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:TikTok deal in limbo amid trade war
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story How Trump's China tariffs upended TikTok negotiations President Trumpโs new tariffs on China have thrown a wrench in efforts to negotiate a deal over TikTokโs divestment from its parent company ByteDance, as Washington and Beijing sink deeper into a trade war. Jeff Chiu, Associated Press After the...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Trump administration cuts contracts for National Climate Assessmentย
The Trump administration is cutting contracts that funded work on the National Climate Assessment โ which is published every few years and details how climate change impacts the U.S. โ as well as other climate activity. Records show that NASA has canceled several deals with contractor ICF, including those supporting work on the climate assessment...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Before Trump ramped up tariff threats, inflation was cooling
Consumer prices rose just 2.4 percent in March from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists warned that the data is mostly backward-looking and likely to be overtaken by the impact of the tariffs that President Donald Trump has left in place, including huge duties on China, even after the 90-day pause of some tariffs announced Wednesday.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Death toll rises to 221 in Dominican roof collapse
Memorials were taking place Thursday for a merengue star and others killed when a cement roof collapsed at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic, as the number of dead surged to 221 and crews completed their search for bodies.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:6 dead after helicopter crashes in the Hudson River off Manhattan
A helicopter broke apart in mid-air Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront, killing a family of Spanish tourists, including three children, officials said.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Siemens executive and family, pilot dead after helicopter crashes in Hudson River off Manhattan
A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in mid-air Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the latest U.S. aviation disaster, officials said.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Ancient jawbone came from mysterious group of human ancestors, scientists say
Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:WATCH: RFK Jr. orders HHS to determine the cause of autism by September
Anti-vaccine advocates, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have for years inaccurately claimed that routine childhood shots may cause autism.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, Rubio argues his presence undermines U.S. foreign policy
The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel's treatment of Palestinians and the war in Gaza.
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