A federal judge on Thursday ordered that immigration officials immediately release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the mistakenly deported man who is now back in the United States and faces criminal charges. Abrego Garcia remains protected from being removed to El Salvador again, but
The United States has a history of intervening in resource-rich nations behind noble-sounding pretexts.
The Walt Disney Company made a major push further into artificial intelligence on Thursday, announcing a licensing agreement with OpenAI that gives it access to Disney's vast library of content and characters. The three-year deal, worth an estimated $1 billion, will allow
At least 254 people are in quarantine in South Carolina after the state confirmed more than two dozen new cases of measles over the weekend, according to local health officials. As of Tuesday, the South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) reported 27 new cases of the
President Trump late Wednesday renewed a threat to primary Republican lawmakers who oppose the GOP's push to change Indiana's congressional map, ramping up pressure on holdouts in the Hoosier State. The Indiana state Senate is set to vote on the new Republican-proposed map
Even the Justice Department lawyer who defended the George W. Bush administration’s decisions to waterboard, bind, and sleep-deprive prisoners in the infamous 9/11 “Torture Memos” of 2002 thinks the Trump administration’s drug boat strikes are going too far. “I don’t think
Senate Democrats, along with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, want an independent review of Epstein case files released by the government to ensure that the records haven’t been tampered with or concealed. Senators Adam Schiff and Dick Durbin wrote a letter to the
The Senate Armed Services Committee is convening Thursday morning to hear testimony from military leaders on the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops across the U.S. President Trump ramped up his immigration crackdown last month after two National Guard
Recent developments in our political history bolster my view.
Be honest: Did you fall for the video of the bunnies on the trampoline?
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will testify before the House on Thursday about threats to national security. Noem last week said the Trump administration is looking to expand its travel ban to more than 30 countries in the wake of a shooting last
House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t seem to understand why President Donald Trump’s violent racism is his problem. Trump confirmed Tuesday that he’d used the epithet “shithole countries” eight years ago during a closed-door meeting with senators, though he had initially denied
President Trump on Thursday pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to end the chamber's blue slip tradition, which Trump complained has gotten in the way of confirming many of his judge and attorney nominees. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, bemoaned that blue
AUKUS will be a new foundation of our shared security for generations to come.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday called President Trump's positive grade for the state of the U.S. economy "insulting" and a "poor reflection" on the commander in chief. "Look, electric bills have gone up," Greene told CBS News. "Everyone's bills have either
Donald Trump’s big mouth could cost him more Republican votes in Indiana as he pushes the Hoosier State to redistrict. Anxious about the 2026 midterms, Trump issued directives to several red states, including Indiana, to redraw their congressional maps in order to bolster
Time named the business leaders behind the AI boom as its person of the year on Thursday, describing 2025 as the year when the technology’s “full potential roared into view.” The magazine pointed to the likes of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI CEO Elon
Our elected representatives in Congress have passed civil and criminal sanctions to deter people from using sham marriages to evade immigration laws. And the Trump administration is serious about enforcing these sanctions.
Durham, N.C., County Commissioner Nida Allam (D), backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other progressives, launched a primary challenge Thursday against Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.) for her House seat next year. “Everywhere you look in our district, people are working,
President Trump confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in the latest escalation of tension with the Latin American country and its President Nicolas Maduro. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. A large tanker, very
Senators will go on record Thursday on competing health care plans that try to address enhanced ObamaCare tax subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. A vote on the Democrats' three-year extension was promised as part of the end of the government shutdown. The GOP's plan
Shutdowns reflect the gridlock of Washington, not the commitment to action found in our states and territories. At the state level, leaders do not have the luxury of stalemate. We must deliver. Governors embody the politics of problem solving, and that spirit is urgently
Army chief Asim Munir has effectively become Pakistan’s ruler behind a civilian façade.
Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was jailed on Wednesday, according to court records, hours after he was fired for what the university said was an “inappropriate relationship with a staff member.”
The reluctance among many Republican officials to support stricter enforcement stems from a belief that significant sectors of Idaho’s economy depend on unauthorized labor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talking points on ending the war in Ukraine are alarmingly being parroted by President Trump. It is clear from his interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns that he is buying into the Russian narrative. Asked who has the stronger negotiating
Sharon Osbourne sat down for an interview for the first time since her iconic rock 'n' roll husband died in July.
Plus: Trump Gold Cards, FEMA reforms, Senate votes on health plans, Dems split on stock trading ban
At its peak the Geminid meteor shower produces over a hundred meteors every hour.
At least 51 infants are believed to have become ill from ByHeart formula dating back to at least December 2023.
On the campaign trail last October, President Trump promised to let his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "go wild on health." A year later, that promise is being fulfilled. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, is unmaking federal immunization policy and running
Welcome The Hill’s annual list of Top Lobbyists. President Trump’s return to the White House brought a whirlwind of policy changes and political battles to Washington, D.C., creating both obstacles and opportunities for the lobbying world. Over the past year, K Street players
In May 2025, the Supreme Court handed down a 4–4 split decision in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond . That deadlock left intact a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court that denied what would have been the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter
Artificial intelligence is rushing into our lives at a breakneck pace. And the AI mavens know it: In the merging language of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill, they like to describe our present state of affairs as a “race.” There are reports that the technology can now execute
Midway through the journey of her life, Olivia Nuzzi found herself in Malibu, for she had wandered from the straightforward path. In exile from the East Coast, where she had held a plum gig with New York , she awoke on the West, with a plum gig at Vanity Fair , doing hard time
Senators are trying to iron out key sticking points in legislation to regulate the cryptocurrency industry in their final working weeks of the year, as they push to get the bill out of committee after months of negotiations. Republicans are pushing for a markup next week on
In The Emperor , Ryszard Kapuściński’s classic portrait of autocratic senility, Emperor Haile Selassie orders a great palace to be built in Ethiopia’s Ogaden Desert, keeps a liveried staff there for many years—but visits the site only a single day. In Addis Ababa, one servant
Senate Republicans, unsettled by recent Democratic victories in the off-year elections, want President Trump to do more to respond to the issue of “affordability,” a buzzword Trump recently dismissed as a Democratic “con job” despite polls showing voters view higher costs as a
Democrats are at odds over a Republican-led discharge petition to ban stock trading by members of Congress, with some insisting that any prohibition should also apply to the executive branch. It marks the latest complication on an issue that has vexed Congress for years and
Democrat Amy Acton is polling neck and neck with Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio governor’s race, according to a new survey. An Emerson College Polling survey released on Thursday found Acton, a former Ohio Department of Health director, receiving 46 percent while
Cracks are forming in the Democrats’ demands for extending ObamaCare subsidies. For weeks, House Democratic leaders have championed a “clean” three-year extension of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits, pressing centrist Republicans to sign their discharge petition to
Democrats need to move right to win back voters in 2026 and 2028—that’s the conventional wisdom from a slew of Democratic think tanks and Beltway strategists . To make their case, they’ve released reports and polling trying to prove that voters are more moderate on many social
More than 7 million student loan borrowers now need to make new arrangements after the Trump administration announced this week it is ending the Saving on Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, which had been considered the most generous income-driven repayment (IDR) option
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Wednesday said the Federal Reserve has "been way behind" on cutting interest rates before its narrow vote later in the day. "Well I think the futures markets expect that the Fed is going to cut rates, a kind of small amount of
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she made a deal on Wednesday to change her "no" vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to allow her anti-transgender bill to be voted on next week. "I made a deal and changed my NO vote on the rule to a Yes in exchange for
The new visa program promises U.S. residency in "record time."
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday to prevent President Trump's face from appearing on the "America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands" passes to be used in 2026. The Department of the