Closing in on 100 days as the nation’s top health leader, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced back-to-back congressional hearings Wednesday — defending his messaging on vaccines amid a growing measles outbreak, the firing of thousands of federal health workers, and major cuts to the agencies he oversees. The hearings, the first time the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared in front of Congress since being sworn in, were marked by intense...

It’s always amusing when someone who has not been an active conservative and free marketer for over 40 years and did not run his own small business for nearly 30 years, as I have, gets accused of being a socialist because he refuses to pretend that the world is not as it is. I like free enterprise. It’s in my blood – everyone in my nuclear family had his/her own business. And while I am not sure that Donald Trump‘s latest heresies to the Cult of Milton Friedman (and I’m definitely a Friedman...

Republican lawmakers are raising concerns about elements of President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, expressing discomfort about the president’s decision to accept a luxury jet from Qatar and voicing reservations about lucrative Trump family business dealings in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Republicans on Capitol Hill are also asking whether Trump has done enough to loop Israel into negotiations with Houthi rebels in Yemen and his...

For all four years of Donald Trump’s presidency — and those years only — Americans would enjoy benefits like no taxes on tips or overtime, under the massive party-line legislation House Republicans are trying to pass this month. Then it won’t be until 2029, when congressional GOP incumbents have already run for reelection and Trump is gone from the White House, that voters feel the sting from many of the “pay-fors.” That includes much of the Medicaid cuts estimated to strip health care...

Any effort to classify Trump’s tactics should grapple with the history. Donald Trump is historically unusual for an American president, and often unprecedented, in his behavior. That’s often — though not always — a bad thing. But if one is going to write on the subject of how Trump violates American norms and resembles foreign autocrats, it would be nice to show at least some understanding that American history did not begin in 2025. One need not absolve Trump in order to...

Days before leaving on a diplomatic tour of the Middle East, news reports surfaced that President Donald Trump planned to accept a Boeing 747-8 jet from the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar to replace the aging Air Force One aircrafts currently used by the president. But the proposed gift has raised a maelstrom of legal questions from Democrats, who say the gift would need the approval of Congress or would otherwise be a violation of the Constitution. Trump said it would be...

The next salvo in the crusade to ban abortion is now clear. Anti-abortion activists have launched what they’re privately calling “Rolling Thunder” — a coordinated campaign to pressure the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore restrictions on mifepristone, a popular drug used in the US to end pregnancies. Under Rolling Thunder, the existence of which was first reported by Politico, activists also plan to bring new lawsuits against doctors who prescribe abortion medication, and...

President Donald Trump’s intent to lift U.S. sanctions on Syria is being met with a heavy dose of skepticism on Capitol Hill and warnings from both sides of the aisle that the administration will need Congress’s help. During his trip this week to the Middle East, Trump laid out a seismic foreign policy shift toward the war-torn country after last year’s toppling of the Assad regime. But it came against a backdrop of unease from lawmakers about Syrian interim President Ahmed al...

The Justice Department told the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has the authority to reconsider and potentially revoke green card holders' lawful permanent residency at any time. Newsweek has contacted the DOJ for comment via email. Why It Matters If the court sides with the Trump administration's position, the decision would effectively allow the government to revoke a green card years or even decades after it was issued....

Ako Abbas was found dismembered in a suitcase in the Swedish woodland last year in what prosecutors were adamant was an honor-based killing by the Afghan family of a woman with whom he was having an affair, but the court ruled the threshold for murder had not been met.