The Hill Nachrichten

 

Mixed messages from the U.S. and Iran on the Strait of Hormuz are injecting further uncertainty into the future of the waterway and global oil supplies. Over the weekend, the Iranian military said that it would close the strait in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon. At the same time, Washington said the waterway was open.  U.S.......

National Economic Council (NEC) Director Kevin Hassett said Monday that Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is not soliciting advice from the White House on monetary policy. “We're very close friends,” Hassett said on CNBC's “Squawk Box,” referring to Warsh. “We've known each other for 30 years. … We definitely talk,” he told host Joe Kernen.......

A plurality of respondents to a new poll believes placing prediction market bets on election outcomes should be illegal.  The Politico survey found that 44 percent of 1,167 respondents believe betting on election results should be illegal. Three in 10 respondents said the practice should be legal, while a quarter said they did not know. ......

China added 10 companies to its export control list on Monday, blocking its exporters from selling any dual-use items to U.S. defense firms.  The items range from drones to robotic hardware and swarm software used primarily for defense and national security operations in addition to some non-military functions. “Exporters are prohibited from exporting dual-use items......

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from immediately cutting the workforce at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), according to Reuters. The outlet reported that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the administration's motion to return the case to the District Court. However, it rejected......

Alan Greenspan, who served five terms as chair of the Federal Reserve, died on Monday at the age of 100. Greenspan's wife, longtime NBC News journalist Andrea Mitchell, said in a statement to the network that her husband died from complications of Parkinson's disease.  “He was a giant of a man who helped shape the......

Republicans are embracing allegations that data center opposition in the U.S. is being fueled by foreign actors, raising questions over how influence operators are contributing to one of the fiercest debates in the tech policy space. Reports, including from OpenAI, recently emerged suggesting China and other countries are carrying out influence campaigns to fan......

Fewer Americans are saying that anyone can achieve the American Dream than in the past, according to a new poll. In the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream (MCAAD)-Gallup American Dream Study, 46 percent of respondents said they either “strongly agree” or “somewhat agree” with the idea that “everyone in this country has the......

The Education Department said Thursday it will reduce interest rates by 1 percent on student loans for borrowers enrolled in automatic payments starting on July 1.  The reduction will be in effect through June 30, 2028. In order to benefit, borrowers must enroll in auto pay by Sept. 30 of this year — if they......

Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that his company is raising its prices. In an interview published Wednesday with the Journal, Cook said that the tech company is set to increase the prices of its products in an attempt to counteract rising memory and storage chip costs. “Unfortunately, price......

A one-time wealth tax on billionaires living in California has qualified to be on the ballot in November. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber on Wednesday said the measure, called the Billionaire Tax Act, received enough signatures and will be certified on June 25 to be included on the ballot for the midterm elections. If......

A new poll shows President Trump's handling of the economy received its lowest approval rating yet, sitting 3 points lower than former President Biden's worst marks during his administration. The NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released Thursday shows only 33 percent of surveyed Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy, compared with the 36 percent approval......

President Trump settled a $100 million lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, whom he accused of engaging “in an insidious plot” with The New York Times to leak confidential information for its Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 investigation into his tax and financial records. Both parties announced the settlement in a joint filing Tuesday, according to court......

If you were putting off some errands to Friday, you may run in to some shuttered doors....

Gas prices in the U.S. on Thursday dipped below $4 for the first time in months, after the U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that calls for the reopening of the critical Strait of Hormuz. The national average price of a gallon of regular gas is about $3.99, according to the American......

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for jobless aid fell modestly last week as layoffs remained in the same historically low range of recent years. U.S. applications for unemployment benefits in the week ending June 13 dropped by 4,000 to 226,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That's in line with the 225,000 new......

New polling released Wednesday found that most U.S. families have both parents working full-time jobs. The Pew Research Center found that, as of 2025, 52 percent of mothers and fathers in different-sex relationships with children under 18 both work full-time jobs, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. This is up from 31......

New Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said Wednesday the central bank will move away from forecasting its future action under his leadership. In announcing its decision to hold interest rates steady, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) opted not to include forward guidance. The panel typically provides information about the “likely future course of monetary policy.” “We've dropped......

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is emphasizing society must change with the development and increased use of artificial intelligence, urging all individuals to engage with the technology. "We need to create new social norms," Huang told the Associated Press in an interview Tuesday, adding, "I would advocate that everybody use AI. Just go engage it. There's......

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday said he thinks artificial intelligence (AI) will create a shortage of labor rather than replacing human labor. Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino asked Bezos and Blue Origin CEO David Limp at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris about implementing Bezos' new AI startup Prometheus with Blue Origin's engineering. The......