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Trump says he plans to call Putin, push for ending 'bloodbath' in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyycalledon Saturday for stronger sanctionson Moscow after a Russiandrone killed nine bus passengers in northeastern Ukraine just hours after thetwo countries held theirfirst peace talks in three years of war. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to speak by phone Monday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, followed by Zelenskyy and leaders of various NATO countries,...
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Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks pick back up as Israeli attacks in Gaza kill hundreds over 72 hours
Israel and Hamas resumed ceasefire talks on Saturday in Qatar, both sides said, even as Israeli forces ramped up a bombing campaign that has killed hundreds of people over 72 hours, and mobilized for a massive new ground assault.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Scientists gobsmacked by never-seen footage of earth rupturing during Myanmar quake
The video was captured by a surveillance cameraon March 28 when a violent earthquake struck the southeast Asian country of Myanmar โ causing widespread damageas far away as Bangkok in neighbouring Thailand, and killing some 3,700 people, according to Myanmar's ruling military junta.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:#TheMoment Harvard discovered its copy of the Magna Carta was real
Nathan Tidridge, an author and expert on Canadian democracy, discusses the significance of Harvard University discovering its Magna Carta replica was authentic.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Ex-FBI director James Comey meets with Secret Service over contentious social post
Former FBI director James Comey met with the U.S. Secret Service on Friday, after he was called in to discuss a social media post that U.S. President Donald Trump's supporters claimed was a threat against the president, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:A Trump doctrine in foreign policy? He just made it clearer than ever
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Trump says call with Putin 'went very well,' Russia open to ceasefire and wants to trade with U.S.
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Moody’s strips U.S. government of top credit rating over failure to rein in debt
Moodyโs is the last of the three major rating agencies to lower the federal governmentโs credit. Standard & Poorโs downgraded federal debt in 2011 and Fitch Ratings followed in 2023.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:FEMA 'not ready' for hurricane season: document
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Internal document raises concerns over FEMA readiness The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is โnot readyโ for hurricane season, which starts June 1, an internal document warns as President Trump eyes eliminating the department entirely. AP Internal slides obtained by The Hill state that,...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume deporting Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act
The high court action is the latest in a string of judicial setbacks for the Trump administrationโs effort to speed deportations of people in the country illegally.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:World Press Photo suspends credit for historic 'Napalm Girl' photo
World Press Photo suspends the authorship attribution of award-winning photograph The Terror of War (1972) after a recent documentary brought it into question.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Russia-Ukraine peace talks fall flat with few signs of progress
In highly anticipated peace talks, Russian and Ukrainian officials agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners, the warโs largest swap. While they agreed to keep talking, there was no breakthrough for peace and the two sides seemed even further apart. Nick Schifrin reports and Amna Nawaz speaks with former State Department official Andrew Weiss for perspective on the state of negotiations.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Trump rails against Supreme Court over blocking of deportation flights
President Trump blasted the Supreme Court over its ruling temporarily blocking expedited deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Russian, Ukraine meet in Turkey for peace talks
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Russia-Ukraine meet in Turkey for peace talks Officials from Ukraine and Russia met Friday in Turkey for the first direct peace talks since Russiaโs invasion in February 2022 sparked the more than three-year war. AP The talks...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Israel strikes two Houthi-controlled ports and unleashes new barrage on Gaza
In our news wrap Friday, Israeli Defense Forces struck two Houthi-controlled ports in Yemen and launched dozens of airstrikes across Gaza, a transit strike in New Jersey forced 350,000 people to make alternative plans, group of GOP lawmakers blocked President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" and New Orleans police say ten inmates who escaped from jail may have had help from the inside.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Trump business deals revive questions about his family profiting off the presidency
This week, President Trump visited three Middle Eastern nations where his family has deep business ties. Over the past month, billions of dollars have poured into Trump-owned companies. It has revived longstanding questions about whether the financial windfalls are influencing policy. White House correspondent Laura Barrรณn-Lรณpez reports.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Breakthrough gene editing treatment helps child born with rare disorder
Doctors announced this week that they have treated a newborn baby with a rare genetic disease using the worldโs first personalized gene editing therapy. Geoff Bennett discussed the treatment and its potential with Dr. Peter Marks. He oversaw gene therapy treatment and vaccine safety and approval for the FDA before he left in March.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Brooks and Capehart on Trump’s Middle East policy shifts
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump's trip to the Middle East and his policy shifts in the region, Qatarโs luxury plane gift, the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship hearing, talks of an immigration reality show and the administration investigating James Comey.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:In ‘The Emperor of Gladness,’ Ocean Vuong explores chosen family and acts of kindness
Heโs a writer who mines his own history to look deeply at broader currents of working-class American life. In his new novel, Ocean Vuong crafts a narrative that weaves together themes of grief, healing and resilience. Senior Arts Correspondent Jeffrey Brown sat down with Vuong to discuss "The Emperor of Gladness" for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Federal judge extends block on public health cuts
Presented by AARP {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Federal judge extends block on public health cuts A federal judge indefinitely blocked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from canceling $11 billion in public health grants set for state and local health departments. The Hill, Greg Nash Judge Mary...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Eurovision fans built a sauna and drove it 3,000 km to the grand final
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Austria's JJ wins Eurovision with pop-opera song Wasted Love
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GOP seeks to bar James Comey from federal positions
The House Republican Study Committee has proposed a resolution to block former FBI director James Comey from ever holding a federal role again, following his controversial Instagram post that was interpreted as a call to assassinate President Trump.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Experimental gene editing helped a desperately ill baby thrive. Scientists say it could someday treat millions
Though it may be a while before similar personalized treatments are available for others, doctors hope the technology can someday help millions who have been left behind by genetic medicine because their diseases are so rare.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:FDA clears first blood test to reliably predict Alzheimer's disease
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday it had cleared a new test to help diagnose adults with Alzheimer's disease, the first diagnostic tool that uses a blood draw to check for the illness. The test is called the "Lumipulse G pTau217/ร-Amyloid 1-42 Plasma Ratio" and is developed by the Japanese company Fujirebio Diagnostics...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:U.S. ambassador says country is 'open to doing business' with Canada amid trade war
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told the audience of major business and political figures that the U.S. is "open for business" โ even as President Donald Trump digs in on his claim that he will not lift tariffs on Canada, and after he told Prime Minister Mark Carney there was nothing he could say to change that.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Moodyโs downgrades US credit rating
The Moodyโs ratings agency downgraded U.S. creditworthiness Friday from the triple-A category to double-A, as Republicans work to pass a massive bill to cut taxes and spending that would add nearly $4 trillion to the federal deficit. Moodyโs dropped the U.S. rating from its โAaaโ category to โAa1โ on concerns over increased debts and interest...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:What’s inside the House GOP’s budget bill? Here’s a look
House committees have labored on the legislation, which runs a whopping 1,116 pages and is titled the โOne Big Beautiful Bill Act,โ a nod to President Donald Trump himself.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Trump teases new tariff rates
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump teases new tariff rates President Trump said administration officials are likely to begin informing dozens of countries in the coming weeks of the tariff rate they will have to pay after a 90-day pause. AP...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Pope Leo XIV to offer the Vatican for Russia-Ukraine discussions
Pope Leo XIV has offered to host a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican, while Cardinal Pietro Parolin called the failure of the two sides to reach a truce in Istanbul "tragic".
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Trump, UAE ink 5G data centerย deal
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump, UAE ink deal on 5G data center The U.S. and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are partnering to build in Abu Dhabi what will be the largest artificial intelligence (AI) campus outside the U.S. Alex Brandon, Associated Press The AI campus, unveiled during President Trumpโs visit...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Republicans in disarray after agenda bill tanked
{beacon} HOUSE REPUBLICANS WILL REGROUP over the weekend, as they search of a way forward on President Trumpโs agenda bill after suffering a stunning setback Friday. Conservative fiscal hawks, insisting the bill doesnโt do enough to address the federal deficit or Medicaid work requirements, prevented the bill from advancing out of the House Budget...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Trump agenda bill hanging by a thread after GOP hard-liners tank key vote
President Trumpโs legislative agenda is hanging by a thread as House Republican leaders scramble to make last-minute changes to their โbig, beautiful billโ and cut deals to appease warring factions of the party. The latest setback came Friday, when four spending hawks tanked a key vote in the House Budget Committee to advance the legislation...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Judge says DOJโs explanation for state secrets privilege in Abrego Garcia case โinsufficientโ
The federal judge overseeing the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, blasted the Trump administration Friday for not giving her enough material to decide whether it can invoke the state secrets privilege. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said a declaration submitted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which seeks...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Bono: World war more likely than at any point in my lifetime
U2's lead singer Bono claimed during a recent interview that the possibility of another world war breaking out is more likely now than at any point in his lifetime. โNationalism is not what we need. We grew up in a very charged atmosphere in Ireland. It makes you suspicious of nationalism and those animal spirits...
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