The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday proposed a new rule barring undocumented immigrants from living in subsidized properties, attempting to eliminate mixed-status households. The proposed rule would require every household resident to provide proof
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) said sweeps of improvised homeless encampments in the city will restart, according to The Associated Press. Mamdani paused former Mayor Eric Adams’s previous policy on encampment sweeps shortly after his inauguration, according to the AP,
Boeing is moving its defense and space business headquarters from Virginia to St. Louis, Mo., a move the company touted as a way to be closer to teammates. Boeing has more than 18,000 employees in the St. Louis area, where they manufacture military aircraft, munitions and
A federal arts panel appointed by President Trump signed off on Trump's plan to construct a new 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the East Wing of the White House, according to The Associated Press. Six of the seven members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) gave final
Trump ally Sen. Pete Ricketts is supporting his wife, Susanne Shore, in her run as a Democrat for the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.
The president appears to be tying the future of vital infrastructure, a public good, to the promotion of his name.
West Virginia in a new lawsuit is accusing Apple of knowingly permitting its iCloud platform to be used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material. The state’s attorney general, John McCuskey, filed the complaint in the Circuit Court of Mason County on Thursday,
The U.S. military leader overseeing operations and forces in Latin America met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas on Wednesday, as the Trump administration continues to forge ties with the Venezuelan government after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts (Neb.) has endorsed his wife, Susanne Shore, who’s campaigning for a seat on the University of Nebraska Board of Regents as a Democrat. The couple has traditionally dueled over which party’s candidate should rise to state leadership and both have
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here. Happy Thursday! It’s remarkable how warm 43 degrees and cloudy can feel after the frigid winter we’ve had. Think the groundhog wants to have a change of heart over this year’s prediction? In today's issue:
The Chicago Bears and Indiana state lawmakers took a big step Thursday morning toward the franchise moving across state lines to build a new stadium near Wolf Lake in Hammond, Indiana.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was recently stripped of his royal title over his connections with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested Thursday morning, sparking the latest public controversy for the royal family. He was arrested at Sandringham House, a
President Trump's attempt to end the Russia-Ukraine war has failed due to his lack of pressure on Russia, with Putin refusing to make concessions and Trump not providing any new military or financial assistance to Ukraine.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is halting at least some disaster-related travel at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the Trump administration tussles with Democratic lawmakers over funding, according to an internal email reviewed by The Hill. “DHS has
Flying soon? You may not have much time to get the best deal, a new report suggests.
Publishing platform Substack and prediction market Polymarket announced a new partnership on Wednesday. The new partnership will allow Substack users to integrate Polymarket's prediction data directly into their content. Substack said 1 in 5 of Substack’s top 250
Rupert Murdoch's News and Fox Corps. will match the U.S. government’s one-time $1,000 contribution to the Section 530A accounts, informally known as “Trump Accounts” that the administration says are designed to “jumpstart the American Dream” for children across the country.
President Trump joked Thursday that he nearly “fired” Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his well-received speech last week at the Munich Security Conference. During the first meeting of his Board of Peace to rebuild the Gaza Strip, the president said Rubio “really did yourself
President Trump has once again dozed off on camera at his own event. Footage shows Trump looking extremely drowsy at his inaugural “Board of Peace” meeting on Thursday at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. His eyelids grew heavy during Major General Jasper Jeffers
Minnesota Wild defenseman Quinn Hughes emerged as an overtime hero for Team USA on Wednesday, scoring a goal to lift the U.S. over Sweden in the men's hockey semifinals at the Winter Olympics. Hughes's comments celebrating his home country are earning him praise from many
Even Florida cops are pulling their support from Representative Randy Fine over the Republican’s recent Islamophobic tirade. Just days before Ramadan, Fine turned a simple joke about Islam’s prohibition against dogs into plain old bigotry, writing on X that “if they force us to
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) has found an unlikely supporter in Fox News host Laura Ingraham amid the controversy over a late-night talk show interview with fellow Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico that was allegedly blocked from airing by the network.
Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.), one of the House Republicans who pushed for the public release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, applauded the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — formerly known as Prince Andrew — on Thursday. “If you’re watching a former
Section 301 cannot lawfully backfill for Trump’s current tariffs.
President Trump said Thursday the U.S. is committing $10 billion to the Board of Peace, the forum that was created to reconstruct the Gaza Strip but that the president wants to see broadened to tackle other foreign conflicts. Trump made the pledge during the first meeting of
President Donald Trump won’t stop bragging about saving lives while making plans for war behind the scenes. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of his so-called Board of Peace in Washington Thursday, Trump boasted to world leaders about ending foreign wars around the world and
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday joined a rally in Los Angeles to push for California's controversial wealth tax, which has been opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). “Enough is enough,” Sanders said, according to The Associated Press. “The billionaire class cannot have it
A new analysis from the JPMorgan Chase Institute found that tariff payments by midsize U.S. firms roughly tripled in 2025. The analysis, published Thursday, shows that midsize firms’ tariff payments began increasing starting in April, the month that President Trump unveiled
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates canceled a speech at India’s AI Impact Summit on Thursday amid an ongoing backlash over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “After careful consideration and to ensure the focus remained on the AI Summit's key priorities, Mr. Gates
Jean-Luc Brunel was ready to testify against Jeffrey Epstein in 2016 in exchange for immunity from his own alleged crimes against women and girls. But when Epstein heard of Brunel’s plans, he reached out to attorney and former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Rummler, and
A federal judge on Wednesday vacated an immigration court ruling giving the Trump administration broad powers to detain migrants, forcing them to give bond hearings and then possibly release thousands in custody. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Sunshine Sykes
Four journalists and a lawyer were arrested in Cameroon trying to cover Donald Trump’s secret deportation program. The journalists were interviewing deported immigrants at a government detention center in the capital, Yaoundé, when they were detained by police along with a
President Trump will speak Thursday afternoon in Rome, Ga. — the latest stop in a domestic tour to sell his economic agenda ahead of November's midterm elections. Trump has consistently praised his administration's efforts to address affordability and inflation concerns,
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) on Wednesday celebrated the suspension of more than 100 students at Mustang Public Schools who walked out of class to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “I applaud Mustang Superintendent Dr. Charles Bradley for suspending 122
The inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace took place Thursday morning in Washington, convening leaders from two dozen countries in order to oversee the Gaza Peace Plan. But Trump, who spoke at the top of the assembly, very obviously had a difficult time pronouncing
He still has time to pivot to a DOGE 2.0 agenda by emphasizing five priorities.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) cast doubt on the credibility of billionaire Les Wexner, who testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday about his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Ansari, a member of the committee, told host
Walk into Covenant Community Church of Birmingham, Alabama, on a Sunday morning, and you’ll see a scene reminiscent of any other evangelical church across the state. The sanctuary is crowded with congregants greeting each other before the service. The minister chats with the
President Trump said he's going to make his son-in-law Jared Kushner a special envoy for peace, speaking during the inaugural Board of Peace meeting. Kushner returned to Trump's second term in an unofficial role and helped achieve the October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday said it’s “entirely possible” that the regimes in Iran, Venezuela and Cuba could fall shortly, comments that come in the wake of pressure on the three governments from the Trump administration. “We are at an extraordinary moment in history.
Democratic lawmakers reacted to the news of former Prince Andrew’s reported arrest on Thursday, with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) suggesting President Trump should also be subject to investigation over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “If a Prince can be
The family of Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sexually abused her after she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, wrote Thursday that their “broken hearts have been lifted” by news of the former prince’s arrest. “At last. Today, our broken hearts have
Denver has been quietly redefining itself. Once known as the “Queen City of the Plains,” Denver is now one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country, a place where migration, innovation, and cultural reckoning are colliding in real time. As people continue moving west
The House and Senate have been at odds over the funding of the Department of Homeland Security, with the House passing a resolution to terminate the president's tariff actions and the Senate failing to pass a cloture motion on the DHS funding bill.
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) plan to move next week to force a vote on a resolution to require authorization from Congress before President Trump can use military force against Iran. “Trump officials say there's a 90% chance of strikes on Iran. He can’t
The Department of Justice spoke four separate times to a woman who credibly accused Donald Trump of having sex with a minor he met through Jeffrey Epstein—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents on the alleged sex
The global elite are beginning to face consequences for their affiliations with Jeffrey Epstein, and the dominoes may soon cascade into American politics. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former British prince and Duke of York, was arrested Thursday (his birthday) on suspicion
The U.S. is facing rising energy costs and increased risk of blackouts due to growing demand, and a balanced energy approach of natural gas and renewables is needed to ensure reliability and affordability.
Political commentator Bill O’Reilly is urging Stephen A. Smith to seriously consider a bid for the White House in 2028. “I think he should run, and I'm being serious now,” O’Reilly told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo. “[President Donald] Trump opened the door for you,” he quipped,
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Wednesday said he feels bad for President Trump and prays for him, even as the two are embroiled in a public feud over the National Governors Association meetings and a sewage spill in the Potomac River. “I have no desire to have beef with the