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Trump talk of joining Iran-Israel conflict unnerves lawmakers in both parties
Senators in both parties are growing increasingly nervous about the possibility that President Trump could insert the United States directly in the Israel-Iran war with a decision to bomb Iran to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It’s not clear whether Trump has made a decision himself on an issue that divides his own...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:
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Trump administration to shutter LGBTQ youth suicide hotline
Presented by Alliance for Aging Research {beacon} Health Care Health Care PRESENTED BY The Big Story Trump administration to shutter LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline The Trump administration has given a crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youth 30 days to shut down and stakeholders as well as lawmakers are speaking out against the move. The...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Democrats, major medical groups denounce Supreme Court's gender-affirming care ruling
Democratic leaders and professional medical organizations on Wednesday denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld a 2023 Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a decision the high court delivered along ideological lines and one that stands to impact similar laws passed in roughly half the country. The high court’s three Democratic-appointed justices dissented...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Burchett calls Republicans advocating US intervention in Iran 'war pimps'
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) called Republicans pushing for U.S. involvement in the Iran-Israel conflict “war pimps,” in an interview Wednesday. CNN’s John Berman asked Burchett about the growing divide in the party between the anti-interventionists like Tucker Carlson and folks like Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who advocated unequivocal support for Israel’s...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Supreme Court rejects Texas’s bid to axe nuclear waste storage site
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Supreme Court upholds nuclear waste permit The Supreme Court rejected Texas’s bid to axe federal approval of a nuclear waste storage facility, arguing the state did not have the right to bring its challenge in the first place. AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File ...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Florida attorney general wants lawmaker deported over criticism of Trump military parade
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier called for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to be deported for criticizing last weekend’s military parade in Washington, D.C. Uthmeier wrote "Denaturalize and Deport”in a repost on social platform X featuring an interview with Omar from the left-leaning outlet Democracy Now! In the clip, Omar says the U.S. “is turning into...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Meet the moths that map the stars to fly long distances
It's an impressive feat for Bogong moths, whose brains are smaller than the size of a grain of rice, to rely on the night sky for their odyssey, said study author David Dreyer with Lund University in Sweden.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Adapting to extreme habitats set the stage for global human migration, study finds
“Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said Eleanor Scerri, an evolutionary archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Trump Mobile faces roadblocks
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump Mobile faces steep hurdles with plans for US-made smartphones The Trump family’s new mobile phone venture promises to build its golden smartphones in the U.S., an endeavor that experts warn will be nearly impossible in the current manufacturing environment. AP Photo/Richard Drew Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone will...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Appeals panel temporarily lifts order deeming Trump firing of federal employee labor board head unlawful
A federalappealscourtpanel on Wednesday temporarily lifted an order deeming President Trump's firing of the Democratic-appointed chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) unlawful. The panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the government's request for an administrative stay, meaning Trump may remove FLRA Chair...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Court blocks EPA from axing environmental justice grants
A federal judge this week barred the Trump administration from axing grants that were part of a $600 million program that aimed to tackle pollution in underserved communities. In a Tuesday order, the Biden-appointed Judge Adam Abelson set aside the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) termination of these grants. The grants in question come from a larger...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV approved in U.S.
The U.S. has approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, maker Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Why hypersonic missiles are stirring fears in the conflict between Israel and Iran
Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel. There is no evidence that Iran has unleashed the missiles, and experts are skeptical of the claim. But the use of these fast-moving projectiles could test Israel’s vaunted missile-defense system and alter the course of the fighting between the two bitter enemies.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:WATCH: Hegseth won’t say whether he allowed the military to arrest, detain, use lethal force on protesters
Hegseth ultimately said the military could "if necessary, in their own self-defense they could temporarily detain" protesters to hand over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:What to know about the Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender care for youth
The case is sure to resonate nationally. Twenty-six other states have passed similar laws, and nearly all of them are also facing legal challenges.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Iran's secretive nuclear site and the bomb that could destroy it
If the U.S. decides to support Israel more directly in its attack on Iran, one option would be to provide the “bunker buster” bombs believed necessary to significantly damage theFordo nuclear fuel enrichment plant built deep into a mountain.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma asks court to clear way for $7 billion settlement if states back it
The deal would be among the largest in a wave of opioid settlements. It calls for members of the Sackler family who own the company to give up ownership and to contribute up to $7 billion over time.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Kyiv rescuers continue to find more bodies as death toll from latest Russian aerial attack climbs to 28
The attack overnight on Monday into Tuesday was part of a sweeping barrage as Russia once again sought to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:What’s in the Senate’s version of Trump’s ‘big bill’?
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is President Donald Trump’s signature agenda item in Congress.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Judge says Trump administration can’t limit passport sex markers for many transgender, nonbinary people
Kobick first issued a preliminary injunction against the policy last month, but that ruling applied only to six people who joined with the American Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit over the passport policy.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:As Israel bombards Tehran, many vulnerable Iranians lack proper shelter or options for fleeing
Thousands have fled, spending hours in gridlock as they head toward the suburbs, the Caspian Sea, or even Armenia or Turkey. But others — those elderly and infirm — are stuck in high-rise apartment buildings.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Tyler Perry accused of sexual assault, harassment by actor who worked on his TV series The Oval
An actor who worked on the Tyler Perry-created TV drama The Ovalhas filed a lawsuit alleging Perry leveraged his industry power to repeatedly sexually assault and harass him while keeping him quiet.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Catherine, Princess of Wales, misses Royal Ascot as she balances cancer recovery
Catherine, Princess of Wales, was not at Royal Ascot on Wednesday, with a royal source citing her need for balance as she returns to public engagements after being treated for cancer last year.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Volcanic eruption in Indonesia forces evacuations, cancelled flights
Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted with giant ash and smoke plumes again Wednesday after forcing evacuations of villages and flight cancellations, including to and from the resort island of Bali.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:'Sephora kids' are using anti-aging creams. A new study says harms aren't just skin deep
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Judge extends block on Trump passport policy to all trans, nonbinary Americans
A federal judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a policy requiring identity documents to reflect an individual’s sex “at conception” to all transgender, nonbinary and intersex Americans who want to change the sex designation on their passports. A previous ruling, handed down in April, had ordered the State Department...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:GOP squares off over AI ban
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story AI moratorium sparks GOP battle over states' rights A push to ban state regulation of artificial intelligence for 10 years is setting off a debate among Republicans, further complicating its path towards passage in President Trump’s “one, big, beautiful bill.” Greg Nash The AI provision has...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Omar: US being turned into 'one of the worst countries'
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) criticized the Trump administration’s use of the military, saying the U.S. is turning into “one of the worst countries.” In an interview late last week, Omar noted the deployment of U.S. troops to quell protests in Los Angeles took place in the same week that the administration held the military parade,...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Trump faces difficult choices in support for Israel’s war on Iran
President Trump convened his national security team today to discuss Iran as Israel’s airstrikes continued. The meeting came after Mr. Trump left the G7 Summit early and as the U.S. sent fighter jets and a second carrier strike group to the region. Amna Nawaz speaks with former diplomat Eric Edelman and Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:The Memo: Risks loom as Trump moves toward direct participation in Israel’s attack on Iran
President Trump is becoming ever more emphatic in his backing of Israel’s attack on Iran, with the chances rising by the hour that he will greenlight direct U.S. involvement. The president discussed the crisis in the White House Situation Room with his closest advisers on Tuesday afternoon. Afterward, according to the Israeli news organization Haaretz,...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Court considers Trump’s California National Guard deployment
In our news wrap Tuesday, a federal appeals court heard arguments over Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in California without coordinating with state officials. In Gaza, at least 51 people were killed while waiting for aid trucks, while in Ukraine, Russia unleashed a strike on Kiev marking the deadliest attack on the capitol this year.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Senate releases tax plan for Trump bill
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Inside the Senate GOP plan to advance Trump's agenda The Senate Finance Committee's portion of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” contains some of the thorniest provisions and could set them on a collision course with the...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:US military readies for Iran involvement
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story US military readies for Iran involvement The U.S. military is positioning itself to potentially join Israel’s assault on Iran, as President Trump weighs direct action against Tehran to destroy its nuclear program. Trump on Tuesday urged...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Can Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ make it through the Senate?
It’s crunch time in Congress as Republican Senate leaders try to shape the president’s so-called “big beautiful bill” into a compromise that can pass. Lisa Desjardins joins Amna Nawaz to unpack the latest proposed changes to health care, tax, and energy policy – and the political sticking points between the GOP and a legislative victory.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:White House says Trump will push TikTok deadline another 90 days
President Trump will sign another executive order this week extending the deadline for TikTok's parent company to divest the video sharing app, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. "As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark," Leavitt said in a statement shared with The Hill. "This...
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