Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Wednesday announced that he had rescinded a U.S. Military Academy at West Point job offer given to the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a move that came less than 24 hours after far-right activist Laura Loomer criticized the hiring. Jen Easterly, who led CISA under former... ... Read full Story
Former ICE director explains how Trump administration efforts to locate missing migrant children could expand with new funding for additional ICE agents ... Read full Story
Former Biden administration cybersecurity chief Jen Easterly lost a distinguished West Point chair position after the Army secretary ordered a review of academy hiring practices. ... Read full Story
High Noon is recalling some of its vodka seltzer drinks because they were mislabeled as nonalcoholic Celsius energy drinks, according to a recall notice posted Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). High Noon is recalling two production lots of High Noon Beach Variety packs. Some of these 12-can packs have cans that are... ... Read full Story
President Trump is ending an exemption that allowed certain low-value commercial shipments into the United States without facing tariffs. Trump signed an executive order that will end the so-called de minimis exemption effective Aug. 29. As of that date, imported goods that are valued at $800 or less and shipped via means other than the... ... Read full Story
President Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs scheduled to go into effect Friday could raise food and grocery prices by several percentage points, according to analyses by two think tanks. The Yale Budget Lab estimated Monday that food prices would rise 3.4 percent in the short-run and stay 2.9 percent higher in the longer term. The Tax Foundation... ... Read full Story
A coalition of Democratic lawmakers is suing the Department of Homeland Security after the agency released a new policy seeking to limit how elected officials may visit detention centers. Lawmakers have a right to make unannounced visits to detention centers, but the Department of Homeland Security has sought to curb visits with a new policy... ... Read full Story
Trump administration reopens California's Santa Ynez offshore oil project with 190 million barrels potential, drawing Republican praise and Democratic opposition from Adam Schiff. ... Read full Story
The “Make Health Tech Great Again" event is expected to provide more details on how the administration is advancing a “next-generation digital health ecosystem." ... Read full Story
NYC mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, faced criticism from Andrew Cuomo over past anti-police comments after mass shooting killed an NYPD officer and three others. ... Read full Story
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office has rejected the Pentagon watchdog’s investigation of his actions in sending sensitive attack plans over the Signal messaging app in March, calling the independent inquiry “a political witch hunt.” In a statement to The Hill on Wednesday, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell claims without evidence that details of the Defense... ... Read full Story
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order raising tariffs on imports from Brazil to 50 percent, escalating his fight with the largest South American economy. The order Trump signed declares a national emergency under a 1977 law he has used to justify his imposition of sweeping tariffs since taking office in January. It increases... ... Read full Story
Sen. Josh Hawley's Honest Act banning stock trades by Congress members and the top executive branch offices advanced through committee despite Republican criticism and intraparty tensions. ... Read full Story
Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that she would not be seeking the governor's office in her home state of California via X post. ... Read full Story
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced anticipated tariffs on copper, levying different duties on finished products versus refined copper. The White House in February announced an investigation into copper to lay the groundwork for potential tariffs on the metal. As a result of that process, the administration Wednesday announced it would impose a 50 percent... ... Read full Story
Freshly back from a vacation to Uganda, Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani visited with the family of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam on Wednesday. ... Read full Story
Maryland delegation confronts ICE officials over Baltimore detention facility access as immigration enforcement debate intensifies under Trump administration. ... Read full Story
Treasury Department freezes assets of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, Alexandre de Moraes, who is helping lead a case against Brazil's former right-wing president. ... Read full Story
The Trump administration has frozen $108 million to Duke University just days after it launched an investigation into alleged race-based discrimination at the institution. The frozen funds from the National Institute of Health will affect the Duke University School of Medicine, according to a senior administration official. The Hill has reached out to... ... Read full Story
“When Moira reached her mother on the phone, it was hard to take in any information other than that she was being sent away. ‘Babysitting and secretarial work?’ Moira said without saying hello. ‘Organizing lessons?’ ‘Hello, Moira,’ Nina said. ‘Let’s drop this petulant teenager routine.’ ‘I am a petulant teenager.’” — Keziah Weir, The Mythmakers: A Novel, 2023
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Petulant may have changed its meaning over the years, but it has retained its status as “word most people would not use to describe themselves in a job interview.” Hailing from Middle French and Latin, petulant began its English tenure in the late 16th century with the meaning recorded in our unabridged dictionary as “wanton or immodest in speech or behavior”—in other words, “lewd” or “obscene.” The word eventually softened, at least somewhat, from describing those who are forward in—shall we say—prurient ways, to those who are forward by being merely rude and angrily bold. Today the word is most commonly used to describe someone acting snippy and snippety, snappish and snappy, displaying an often childish ill or short temper of the kind that tends to arise from annoyance at not getting one’s way.