Barely two weeks into the new year, Americans are really feeling the crunch. The enhanced subsidies that made the Affordable Care Act more affordable for 22 million Americans last year expired at year’s end. Initial Obamacare enrollment has already dropped by 1.4 million
The Trump administration and a group of bipartisan governors is trying to pressure the nation’s largest regional electric grid operator to bring down electric prices, especially in the wake of heavy demand from data centers. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary
Virginia Senate Democrats passed their redistricting constitutional amendment on Friday, putting the party one step closer to redrawing the Old Dominion’s congressional lines. Democrats in the upper chamber passed a constitutional amendment for a second time that would allow
Democratic socialism is gaining traction among younger Americans due to their dissatisfaction with capitalism, which has failed to provide basic security, and is being championed by figures like Zohran Mamdani, whose focus on food insecurity, housing and public goods has
President Trump will pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced (R), a White House official confirmed to The Hill. Vázquez Garced, who was governor of the U.S. territory from 2019 to 2021, was arrested in 2022 for allegedly bribing people to finance her 2020
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here. Happy Friday! President Trump’s inauguration weekend was exactly a year ago now. Part of me feels like that was just yesterday but most of me feels like it’s been two or three years! In today's issue: Programming
Right now, Minnesota feels like a pressure cooker — what’s happening there is bigger than one city, one governor or one president. It’s a snapshot of what happens when immigration becomes a political weapon instead of a policy problem that demands grown-up solutions. Gov. Tim
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, is suing the tech billionaire’s AI company, xAI, after its chatbot Grok produced sexualized images of her. St. Clair filed suit against xAI in New York state court Thursday, alleging that Grok generated images of her
We would never trust a random person with no credentials to fix our cars, so why would we trust them with our physical or mental health?
President Trump's economic adviser said Friday that the administration has been in touch with major banks regarding the administration’s proposal to temporarily cap credit card interest rates amid concerns about its long-term economic impact. Kevin Hassett, the director of
President Trump said Friday he was hesitant to nominate his top White House economic adviser to chair the Federal Reserve, suggesting he might be going in a different direction. During remarks at a White House health care event, Trump praised Kevin Hassett — director of the
At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to President Trump’s desire to take over Greenland. “I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,” Nebraska Representative Don Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald .
President Trump has expressed interest in acquiring Greenland for national security purposes, and has threatened to use the U.S. Military to do so if necessary, despite the fact that Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and has its own government and culture.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham used a deceitfully edited clip of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in order to push the lie that he wants the police to take up arms against ICE officers. Speaking about Frey’s press conference following yet another shooting involving a federal officer,
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line cleric in Iran, on Friday called for the execution of protesters across Tehran as the government seeks to stifle demonstrations in the capital. “Armed hypocrites should be put to death!” Khatami said in a sermon carried across state radio,
A number of Republicans facing uphill reelection bids in November were present at the White House for a rural health care roundtable with President Trump on Friday. The roundtable follows the administration announcing that $10 billion would be invested in states’ rural health
Millions of Americans will have a chance to view the Northern Lights on Friday and Saturday, according to an aurora forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
President Trump on Friday floated slapping potential tariffs on countries that oppose the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland. Trump made the remarks after describing threatening European allies, including France and Germany, with 25 percent tariffs if they did not
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, the same day President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House. Ratcliffe, the most senior administration official to visit
There's no avoiding it: White liberal voters often dismiss qualified candidates of color, especially Black candidates, as unelectable.
Thousands of X users reported outages Friday, with the social media platform’s homepage showing an error message. Some have also reported issues with the website and server connection, according to Downdetector. As of 10:42 a.m. EST Friday, Downdetector had received 53,482
Tyler Robinson, the alleged gunman who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk last year, is seeking to disqualify the attorneys prosecuting him in Utah. Robinson’s defense team has raised concerns with one of the deputy county attorneys whose child attended the campus
In its deficient reading of history, the Supreme Court seems to have missed this lesson.
A 6-month-old baby was hospitalized after federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis struck a car full of children with a flash bang, before flooding it with tear gas. Parents Shawn and Destiny Jackson told Kare11 that they were driving their six children home from a
One caller told dispatch, "They just shot a lady, point-blank range in her car."
Next up for the very fine people of Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Maine. President Donald Trump, in his speech in Detroit Wednesday , signaled that the Pine Tree State was in his sights. Why? Well, no doubt partly because he’s never won the state in three tries (although
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Friday against the Trump administration, accusing federal agencies of using racial profiling to conduct illegal stops in Minnesota. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman said people should take President Trump seriously when he talks about invoking the Insurrection Act, this time in response to unrest in Minnesota following two separate shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Renee Good was still alive when ICE agents were blocking a physician from tending to her. New records from emergency responders obtained by The New York Times show that Good was not breathing but had an irregular pulse when local medics arrived at the scene, and had no pulse by
The lesson of the Whisky War is that strategic importance does not require theatrical melodrama.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will speak with reporters Friday morning, a day after meeting with President Trump at the White House. Machado, following the visit, said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump. The meeting came more than a week after the
Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith warned Thursday that the Trump administration's policies could cause Republicans to lose this year's midterms. “To all the Republicans out there, to all the conservatives out there: You’re about to lose the midterms,” Smith said during an
The "Make America Healthy Again" movement is overwhelmingly popular and could swing a large number of votes towards the GOP if Republicans embrace its policies and become more vocal in promoting them.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that all options are on the table regarding Iran, including military intervention. “Colleagues, let me be clear: President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk like we see at the
It looks like Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado traded her Nobel Peace Prize for a bag of Donald Trump merch. Machado was spotted walking out of the White House Thursday with a large red paper bag with Trump’s signature scrawled across it. This isn’t the first
Almost 2 in 3 Americans say President Trump has not done enough to lower prices on everyday goods, according to a poll released Friday. The CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, found 64 percent of respondents believe Trump has “not gone far enough” to alleviate affordability concerns
President Trump will host a roundtable at the White House on Friday morning centered on investments in rural health care. Beginning this month, states are expected to receive funds from the Rural Health Transformation Program averaging around $200 million and ranging between
It appears that ICE choked a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant to death in a Texas detention facility. A medical examiner told Geraldo Lunas Campos’s family that, unless a toxicology report comes back with something, he will likely rule his death a homicide, according to a recording
This is getting ridiculous.
President Trump has ramped up rhetoric around acquiring Greenland in recent days and on Friday threatened to impose tariffs on countries that do not support the proposal. The suggestion comes as Trump faces pressure from both sides of the aisle after the White House said the
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) says that President Trump is “being an idiot” by making forceful demands of Denmark, a NATO ally, to cede its control of Greenland to the United States, something Danish leaders have repeatedly shot down. “This has nothing to do with actual security
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Wednesday he’d consider impeaching President Trump if the U.S. decides to invade Greenland, which he described as “utter buffoonery.” “It's ridiculous that this has to even be done," Bacon told the Omaha World-Herald. “But when the president talks
American firms can now compete on a level playing field for one of the world's largest nuclear markets.
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More than half of Americans in a new survey rated President Trump's first year in office as a "failure." The CNN/SRSS survey, published Friday, found that 58 percent of U.S. adults said 2025 was a failure for the president on a number of issues. Another 42 percent said the year
Will the GOP’s efforts to combat the ongoing theft of immense amounts of money from taxpayers resonate with voters?
Mamdani is dismantling the very anti-discrimination rules meant to stop antisemitism before it turns bloody.
Customers who made a qualifying purchase at a Michael Kors Outlet store between May 10, 2019 and Nov. 14, 2025 may be eligible for a credit.
Owners of the recalled minifridges are urged to stop using them immediately.