Rahm Emanuel, seen as a potential 2028 contender, is pushing for a 75-year maximum age limit for individuals holding office. “You can't serve in the armed forces. You can't serve in a private sector job,” Emanuel told reporters during a Christian Science Monitor event on
The Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced Horizon 1000, a $50 million health project created in partnership with OpenAI to increase the utilization of artificial intelligence inside health care centers across Africa. “Over the next few years, we will collaborate with leaders
The Supreme Court explored several pathways as it weighed the monumental battle over President Trump’s firing power at the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. Though the justices appeared open to arguments from Fed Governor Lisa Cook that she was unlawfully removed, it remains
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Wednesday defended giving her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump during her visit to the White House last week. "I already said what I meant and what it means to the Venezuelan people to present President Trump with our
Nancy Lacore, a three-star admiral and former chief of the Navy Reserve before she was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, announced a run for Congress in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. Lacore, who began as a Navy pilot and rose to vice admiral during more
The House will now have to decide on whether to refer contempt charges against the former president, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to the Justice Department.
A federal judge denied a request from Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to appoint an independent monitor to ensure the Department of Justice (DOJ) complies with the law mandating the release of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In a court order
Border Patrol is not welcome in Minneapolis’s streets, its schools, or its gas stations. A crowd of anti-ICE protesters stormed federal agents at a Speedway gas station on Nicollet Avenue Wednesday, throwing out Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino alongside his masked subordinates.
The Trump administration has surged federal immigration enforcement to Maine, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) saying that 50 people have been arrested so far by immigration officers. The surge, called “Operation Catch of the Day,” began on Tuesday, DHS officials
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday advanced resolutions to hold former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress over their refusal to appear for depositions after being subpoenaed in the panel’s
Donald Trump is now claiming that the “framework of a future deal” has been reached on Greenland and “the entire Arctic region.” The president posted on Truth Social Wednesday afternoon that he had a very productive meeting with the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, at the
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wants to pretend that Donald Trump didn’t mix up Greenland and Iceland—but he did. Multiple times. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos Wednesday, Trump repeatedly and erroneously mixed up Greenland with Iceland, a
The Washington Post is asking a federal judge to order the government to return materials seized from one of its journalists as part of a raid at her home earlier this month. Calling the search "outrageous," the Post said the FBI's taking of reporting materials "chills speech,
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday claimed vindication after learning that President Trump has ruled out acquiring Greenland by U.S. military force. "I know that he has said that we will not have troops involved in Greenland," Johnson told reporters on Capitol
Senator Ted Cruz appears to be leaving Texas yet again ahead of another major winter storm. The third-term lawmaker was photographed boarding a flight to Laguna Beach, California, Tuesday, sparking concerns online that the lawmaker’s controversial history of ditching his
President Trump said Wednesday that he’s reached the framework of a deal with NATO on the future of Greenland and will not impose tariffs he previously threatened on European countries. “Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO,
The Trump administration is ordering active-duty military police soldiers to be ready to deploy to Minneapolis. MS NOW, citing three unnamed sources, reports that an Army military police brigade unit stationed in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was issued “prepare to deploy” orders
A House committee found that CVS Health may have violated federal antitrust laws by threatening independent pharmacies to keep them from using money-saving services outside the company’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) network. The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chair Jim
One year into his second term, what we’ve actually experienced feels less like a golden age and more like a political stress test — full of speed, spectacle, and sharp division.
President Trump told reporters Wednesday that NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is "more important" than Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen when asked about Danish officials' unwillingness to discuss the U.S. acquiring Greenland. “They didn’t tell me that, so when
President Trump, who has a lengthy résumé of authoritarian tendencies, thinks that sometimes “you need a dictator.” “We had a good speech, we got great reviews. I can’t believe it, we got good reviews on that speech,” Trump said on Wednesday, speaking of the long-winded,
President Trump on Wednesday sent a message to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, telling him that his country "lives because of the United States," days after the prime minister defended Greenland against Trump's effort to acquire the island territory. "We're building a
California Gov. Gavin Newsom can’t handle the truth — or at least isn’t able to articulate what it is. Here he was flubbing a very basic and fundamental question from Ben Shapiro about whether men can become women. He’s not the only one, of course. Most Democrats, including
Federal law enforcement agents were involved in a shooting in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles early Wednesday while conducting an immigration enforcement operation, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A DHS spokesperson told The Hill’s sister station,
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was denied entry to the USA House in Davos, Switzerland, where he was invited to speak during the World Economic Forum. “Under pressure from the White House and State Department, USA House (a church acting as the official US pavilion) is now
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said President Trump was not going to invade Greenland, comments that followed the president ruling out military force to acquire the island. “He was never going to invade Greenland,” Newsom told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins while at the World Economic
The show will be adapted from Fredrik Logevall’s book “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956."
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will depose longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Feb. 9, committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said on Wednesday. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for her role in procuring abuse victims
Even before taking office last Saturday, new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, demanded and received the resignations of several of her Republican predecessor Glenn Youngkin’s appointees to the board that oversees the University of Virginia. In a similar vein,
AARP on Wednesday called for staffers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to be held accountable for sharing Social Security data with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results” and for storing private information on Cloudflare. “SSA is entrusted
President Trump’s bid to fire Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook faced a hesitant Supreme Court on Wednesday at a blockbuster oral argument over the central bank’s removal protections. A majority of the justices appeared reluctant to sign off on Trump’s
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Wednesday he received positive feedback from world leaders after he criticized them a day earlier for caving to President Trump on foreign policy. “I heard a surprising number say: ‘I’m glad you made those comments,’” Newsom told reporters
The U.S. should deepen its cooperation with Mexico to reduce drug demand and cut off the southbound gun pipeline, rather than taking military action against Mexico, which would be counter-productive and jeopardize the progress made in reducing drug flows.
House Democrats introduced a discharge petition Wednesday to force action on a bill banning members of Congress, the president, the vice president and their immediate families from owning, holding and trading stocks. The petition so far has been signed by seven Democrats,
Do President Trump’s advisers actively want him to act like a dictator? At the very least, there’s plainly a deep split inside Trumpworld on this question. As deranged as it seems, one faction clearly believes Trump absolutely should project unconstrained tyrannical power, to
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a court decision that blocked the implementation of two memos issued last year, which threatened to pull school funding over certain actions around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The appeal upholds a ruling by the federal
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Denmark “irrelevant” on Tuesday amid tensions between the U.S. and the Scandinavian country over Greenland. “Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds — like Denmark itself — is irrelevant,” Bessent said at a press conference Tuesday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday dismissed President Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as "remarkably boring." "It was remarkably insignificant,” Newsom continued as he spoke with CNN's Kaitlan Collins in Davos. "He was never going
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here or using the box below. It’s Wednesday. This winter storm could be a whopper this weekend. And thanks to everyone who guessed the number of Truth Social posts President Trump published in the past year. Nearly every
That era has stalled — and not just on one side of the aisle.
Donald Trump’s Greenland fixation has frustrated Europeans enough that the European Parliament has suspended work on a trade deal with the United States. The legislative body was looking at removing import duties against American goods, as part of an agreement made between the
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday that the U.S. is “less reliable” as a global ally under President Trump, but he was otherwise reluctant to criticize Trump during his interview with The Economist at the World Economic Forum. Asked if he agrees with Canadian Prime
Many countries have formally agreed to join President Trump’s "Board of Peace" to transform the Gaza Strip into a stabilized region following disruption from conflict between Hamas and Israel, with Trump saying that as many as 59 nations are in play. As the entities work to
At least one person has been absolutely thrilled by Donald Trump’s recent push to acquire Greenland: Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. leader’s relentless quest to annex the Danish-controlled territory has put America at odds with some of its strongest allies. Over the
As Donald Trump delivered rambling remarks touting his new world order at the World Economic Forum in Davos, yet another European country announced that it had sold off billions of dollars of U.S. Treasuries. Alecta, a Swedish pension fund, revealed to Reuters Wednesday that it
Rep. Juan Ciscomani of Arizona's 6th District is committed to advancing bipartisan solutions to address the challenges facing the health care system, including preserving access to life-saving skin substitute treatments for those with chronic wounds.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Wednesday lambasted President Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which the governor called "dangerous, disrespectful and unhinged." Trump used his speech to make his pitch for why the U.S. should acquire
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said Tuesday that President Trump’s renewed threats of annexing Greenland have left young children in the semiautonomous territory frightened of a possible military attack, calling the president’s comments “nonsense.” “The president is not making a
As President Trump headed to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday evening, MAGA congressional Republicans—and a pro-Russian Romanian right-wing nationalist—were at the Kennedy Center taking a bite out of a Greenland-shaped, American-flag-covered cake. Representative
