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Watch live: RFK Jr. gives remarks on updated guidance for youth health care

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will deliver remarks Thursday on new federal guidance related to health care for minors. The remarks come after Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) unveiled a draft rule that would pause federal funding for hospitals that pr…

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In major effort to end gender-affirming care, Trump administration takes aim at hospitals

The Trump administration intends to make its most forceful attempt yet at restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the U.S.

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Rules of the road: Why Trump’s AI order matters more than most Americans realize

Most Americans trust things they do not fully understand every day. They trust traffic lights. Crosswalks. Driver’s education. The rules are visible; the expectations are shared. Trust follows. That was not always true. In the early 1900s, American streets were chaos. Automobiles were hailed as t…

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Live updates: Trump trumpets term’s successes; inflation eases in November

President Trump trumpeted his term’s success so far in a rapid and aggressive speech Wednesday night that also announced a “warrior dividend” for troops. The $1,776 bonus checks will be funded by tariff revenue, Trump said. The president took credit for the economy, forecasting conditions would only…

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Watch live: Jeffries, House Dems give remarks on ACA discharge petition

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday morning after Democrats advanced their discharge petition to force a vote on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies. With the help of some moderate Republicans, Democrats reached the 218-signature thre…

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Trump claims "inflation has stopped" in his year-end address. Here's what the data shows.

President Trump made a prime-time address to Americans on Wednesday, arguing his policies have fixed past border issues and claiming prices are down. The latest Consumer Price Index data shows inflation sits at 2.7%, down slightly from the month Mr. Trump took office. CBS News polling data finds 76%…

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Johnson faces new rebellion from the center

Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ GOP moderates go around Johnson ▪ Trump touts record, $1,776 'Warrior Dividend' ▪ Bongino leaving FBI ▪ New Medicaid work requirements A group of moderate House Republicans added to Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-La.) heada…

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Has Trump’s chief of staff revealed White House secrets?

Susie Wiles hits back at Vanity Fair after giving rare interviews

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Where health care legislation stands as ACA tax credits are set to expire for millions

House Republicans on Wednesday passed their own health care proposal as premiums are set to rise for millions of Americans in just two weeks. The legislation would expand small business access to health plans and help lower drug costs, but it does not extend ACA subsidies. Meanwhile, four House Repu…

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Trump expected to expand access to cannabis in a major shift in drug policy

The order to place cannabis in the same category as Tylenol with codeine would mark the most significant change in US drug policy since 1971.

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Watch live: House Democrats speak out against use of police in immigration enforcement

A group of House Democrats will speak with reporters Thursday morning in opposition to the Trump administration’s deportation agenda, including the use of local law enforcement to assist with President Trump’s crackdown on immigration. During the press conference, Reps. Mike Quigley (Ill.), Pramila …

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Pope’s naming of New York archbishop signals continued challenge to Trump on immigration

Ronald Hicks, who endorsed message condemning ICE raids, to lead one of biggest US archdiocesesPope Leo XIV has named a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York, one of the biggest US archdioceses, in a signal that the church will continue its stance against the Trump administration on im…

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What to know about Trump's $1,776 'warrior dividend' to service members

President Trump announced Wednesday night that military service members will receive checks for $1,776, a nod to the nation’s founding year. The news came during the president’s national address, which focused on affordability and served as a wrap-up for the first year of his second term in office. …

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Trump’s Energy Secretary Orders a Washington State Coal Plant to Remain Open

SEATTLE—The last coal-fired power plant in Washington state was set to go cold at the end of the year. It would then switch to natural gas, cutting carbon emissions in half. The shutdown had been in the works for 15 years and was mandated by state law. It required the Canadian energy company that ow…

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Brendan Carr admits his FCC is Trump’s journalism police | Seth Stern and Clayton Weimers

It is clear that the FCC is not an independent agency, but an instrument of the president’s political agendaThe Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, admitted at a Senate hearing on Wednesday that there had been a political “sea change” and he no longer viewed the FCC as an independ…

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CBS News Says Bari Weiss’ Town Halls Will Continue, With Sponsor, Despite Rough Start

CBS will keep making room for a series of new town hall programs, even if the first entry in the format wasn’t the network’s biggest moment. The network said Thursday that it planned to air a series called “Things That Matter,” which would feature town halls and debates involving newsmakers and peop…

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White House says US would be ‘lucky’ if Trump stayed for third term

Comments follow reports the US president discussed the idea with Alan Dershowitz, a constitutional scholar who defended himUS politics live – latest updatesThe US would be “lucky” if Donald Trump remained in office for a constitutionally-prohibited third term, the White House has said following reve…

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