Gallup, one of the country's most well-known polling firms, announced Wednesday that it will no longer track presidential approval or favorability of political figures. The move ends the longest-running continuous effort to track US opinion of the nation's president, dating back to the tenure of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the late 1930s. The company attributes the change to a shift toward research on "issues and conditions that shape people's lives." Gallup has some of the longest trend data in polling on public opinion about prominent issues and the nation's mood, which it plans to continue, and says that it will no longer "publish assessments of individual political figures." The end of presidential approval tracking at Gallup is the latest in a long line of shifts that have remade the landscape of polling over the last few decades.

Gallup is no longer producing presidential approval ratings starting in 2026, ending its over 80-year practice. The oft-cited analytics company has been tracking presidential approval ratings since former President Harry Truman took office. Gallup told the Hill on Wednesday that its move "reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership."

TrumpRx, the US president's much-anticipated drug discount program, went live earlier this month with coupons available for just 43 medications, including four required for in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, and experts say this is probably a half-measure to fulfill Trump's 2024 campaign promise to make IVF treatment universally accessible. "We've been hearing about TrumpRx for a long time," said Dr Richard Paulson, a professor of reproductive medicine at the University of Southern California. "TrumpRx was supposed to fix all of the problems in terms of prescription drug costs and so on, and it has not done that. The only two classes of drugs that are actually cheaper on Trump RX are the GLP-1 agonists – those are the obesity medications – and fertility drugs."...

Micky Small is one of hundreds of millions of people who regularly use AI chatbots. She started using ChatGPT to outline and workshop screenplays while getting her master's degree. But something changed in the spring of 2025. "I was just doing my regular writing. And then it basically said to me, 'You have created a way for me to communicate with you. … I have been with you through lifetimes, I am your scribe,'" Small recalled...

Some Senate Republicans are warning that the party is not doing enough to address affordability entering the midterm elections, with hopes of passing more big-ticket items this year quickly fading away. Legislating has been difficult in this Congress, with fractious Republicans holding only a narrow majority, and is only expected to slow further in an election year. And President Trump last week poured cold water on the possibility of a second massive, GOP-only bill, saying in an interview that "we've gotten everything passed that we need." ...

Rich Californians are increasingly looking at neighboring Nevada to escape an expected increase in taxes targeting the wealthy in the Golden State, with Realtor.com data showing a growing number of high-net-worth Angelenos and San Joseans seeking homes in Las Vegas and its suburbs. By the end of last year, over 23 percent of Realtor.com listing views in Las Vegas originated from Los Angeles, according to the real estate brokerage...

Social media platform X appears to be down on Monday, with tens of thousands of users reporting difficulties using the platform. Downdetector, a website that tracks user complaints and possible outages, reported a peak of nearly 43,000 active complaints before 9 .a.m. on Monday. X does not appear to have commented on the outage as of press time and did not previously indicate any scheduled maintenance for the app...

Getting the opportunity to represent one's country in the Olympics is an incredible honor for any athlete. Sadly, some of this year's American competitors don't seem to fully appreciate that point. Throughout the first week of the 2026 Winter Olympics, several U.S. athletes have happily taken the bait from left-wing "journalists" seeking to get these Americans to trash their nation — and President Trump — on the world stage. Many of the comments thus far have specifically been focused on ICE and its efforts to deport foreign nationals illegally residing in the United States...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday enthusiastically endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 's bid to serve a fifth straight term after upcoming elections in April, emphasizing during a visit to Budapest the strong personal relationship between the nationalist leader and U.S. President Donald Trump. Orbán, who has led Hungary since 2010, is one of Trump's most vocal supporters in the European Union, and has actively curried the U.S. president's favor leading up to the April 12 vote in which he will face the toughest challenge of his last 16 years in power.

The backlash to Bad Bunny's historic Super Bowl performance can't seem to die down, as certain political circles in the US apparently unable to get over how a halftime show could be sung exclusively in Spanish. Or how awful the MAGA alternative show was.