The Trump administration joined a viral TikTok trend on Tuesday, posting a video of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant dancing with rapper Nicki Minaj to promote new investment accounts for children, known as Trump Accounts. In this trend, two people are seen standing back to back and lip-syncing to a mashup of Minaj’s 2012 hit “Bees…
Colombia President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday he has given President Trump a list of major drug “kingpins” that both countries should work on arresting around the world. “Their capital is outside Colombia, and they must be jointly pursued through coordinated intelligence operations in several regions of the world,” Petro told reporters during a news conference….
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) checked himself into the hospital Monday evening for flu-like symptoms, his office confirmed Tuesday. A spokesperson for McConnell’s office said the 83-year-old senator began experiencing symptoms this weekend and went to a local hospital “out of an abundance of caution.” “His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for that… Source…
Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {Beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Bill Gates needs to answer to Epstein claims, ex-wife says Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, said Tuesday that she needs to answer to allegations made against her in a recently released… Source…
{Beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story French authorities raid the offices of © Noah Berger, The Associated Press The prosecutor’s office said in a post on X that its cybercrime unit had executed a search warrant… Source link
Click for more news from The Hill {Beacon} Health Care The Big Story Republican, Democratic senators both shocked at MHA’s Denmark frenzy. During a Senate hearing Tuesday, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed confusion as to why supporters of the “Make America Health Again” agenda seemed at a… Source link
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday morning pushed back against U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s comments in which she threatened to jail people who carry firearms in the nation’s capital. “Just because an American visits DC does not take away Second Amendment rights,” DeSantis wrote on the social platform X….
A total of 21 Democrats voted with the Republican majority in the House on Tuesday to end the partial government shutdown. The House voted to pass the funding package 217-214, which provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through February 13 and full-year funding for a large number of federal agencies. In… Source…
Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) on Tuesday questioned a top Trump health official over the administration modeling policy around Denmark, a largely homogeneous country of more than 6 million people. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jai Bhattacharya appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Education (HELP)… Source…
Three years after the East Palestine train derailment, a federally funded research program has been launched to study the long-term health effects of the disaster and provide evidence-based medical guidance to the affected community. Source link
