Authorities are searching for a suspect in the shooting of Judge Stephen Meyer and his wife Kimberly, who were targeted in their Indiana home on Sunday. Judge Meyer was wounded in the arm, and his wife in her hip. Both are in stable condition. Lafayette police to reports of a
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday slammed world leaders, calling their responses to President Trump's foreign policy initiatives "pathetic." “Do you have a message for Europeans who are concerned about the messages from the White House around Greenland this week?” Sky
A signing ceremony to formalize President Trump’s Board of Peace will be held Thursday in Davos, Switzerland. Trump is set to meet with global leaders later this week at the World Economic Forum and will sign the Board of Peace charter on Thursday morning, according to a White
Stocks dipped early Tuesday amid President Trump’s continued push to acquire Greenland. The Dow was down nearly 700 points as of 10:15 a.m. EST, with the S&P 500 down by more than 1.4 percent and the Nasdaq down by more than 1.7 percent. Early Tuesday morning, the president
President Trump’s Greenland envoy, Gov. Jeff Landry (R-La.), was disinvited from the territory’s annual dogsled race amid White House rhetoric encouraging the annexation of the self-governing Danish territory. The Greenland Dogsledding Association (KNQK) was "informed that the
Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” is already a farce, with many of the invited members having been accused of war crimes. Among the world leaders invited include Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who each have arrest warrants
Melania Trump is reflecting on the one-year anniversary since President Trump's return to the White House, calling her role as first lady a "profound responsibility." "A year ago today, I was entrusted to serve our country once again," she wrote in a Tuesday post on X. "Being
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned European countries against retaliatory tariffs Tuesday, days after President Trump threatened multiple allies with additional import taxes over their criticism of the president's push to take over Greenland. Speaking to Fox News’s Maria
Trump has been presented with the historic opportunity to liberate the Iranian population, but based on his present words and actions — or lack thereof — his legacy on Iran’s domestic future is rapidly becoming even more of a tragic failure than that of the Obama administration.
The White House issued a proclamation recognizing the annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday late Monday evening, following criticism from activists across the country. “Inspired by the tenets enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, we proudly renew our pledge to uphold
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The
Liberal Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who faces a Democratic primary challenger this year, is calling for President Trump to be removed from power under the 25th Amendment after Trump acknowledged he would be less likely to pressure Denmark to give up Greenland had he won the 2025
President Trump issued a flimsy, ill-defined proclamation on the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 8:15 p.m. after hours of silence—and criticism from the NAACP. “Dr. King pioneered a movement that would go on to triumphantly reaffirm our national conviction that every
The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning will consider whether the Second Amendment permits states from implementing concealed carry bans on private property, such as restaurants. In the case, Wolford v. Lopez, three Hawaii residents and a local gun rights group pressed the court
The legitimate fear is that the use of the Insurrection Act would be pretextual, starting us down the slippery slope to authoritarianism.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said his aim with a speech to the British Parliament on Tuesday was to “calm the waters,” after the transatlantic alliance was shaken by President Trump’s tariff threats as he aims to purchase Greenland and floats with using military power to take
The president appears ready and willing to turn on some of America’s greatest allies in his quest to conquer Greenland. In a frenetic string of posts to Truth Social late Sunday night, Donald Trump skewered Britain and France, and released private messages sent to him by French
President Trump said Tuesday that protesters who stormed a church in Minnesota should be jailed. “Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act,” the president wrote in
The Department of Homeland Security appears to have just made up the craziest excuse for terrorizing a U.S. citizen with no criminal record. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were caught on camera Sunday dragging a elderly grandfather out into the snowy streets of St.
President Trump on Monday threatened to raise Champagne tariffs if French President Emmanuel Macron denies a seat on the White House Board of Peace, tasked with overseeing the 20-point peace plan in Gaza. “I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and Champagnes and he’ll
If Washington wants to keep high-skill workers in the United States, codifying a sensible right to disconnect would be a smart way to do it.
President Trump on Tuesday is doubling down on his threats to seize Greenland, as European allies push back on the president. Overnight, Trump released private messages between himself and Emmanuel Macron, in which the French president questioned Trump's end game with
President Trump criticized the United Kingdom on Tuesday for granting control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, months after his administration backed the proposed deal. Under the May 2025 agreement, Mauritius was given control of the islands in the Indian Ocean and the U.K.
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday rolled out its last four remaining appropriations bills, as lawmakers race to meet the Jan. 30 funding deadline. The last four bills would fund the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Transportation, Housing and Urban
President Trump said early Tuesday that he agreed to meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and other European allies to discuss the future of Greenland at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump, in a late-night post on Truth Social, wrote he had a
When a handful of House Republicans sank a slate of GOP labor bills last week, it not only marked an embarrassing blow to GOP leadership, but showcased the populist and pro-union sentiment that's shaking up the orthodoxy of national Republican politics. The upshot is that the
A progressive agenda would severely damage a tremendous opportunity to come back from the political wilderness.
President Trump early Tuesday revealed a message from French President Emmanuel Macron tied to Trump's push to acquire Greenland. “My friend, we are totally in line on Syria, we can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” Macron said,
Policymakers should continue to focus not on the so-called "root causes" of crime but on the proximate cause of crime — criminals.
T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 20 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Editor’s note: After we recorded this episode, Trump kept raging about protests in Minneapolis. He seethed about jailing Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Valentino Garavani, the jet-set Italian designer whose high-glamour gowns — often in his trademark shade of “Valentino red” — were fashion show staples for nearly half a century, has died at home in Rome, his foundation announced Monday. He was 93.
The question is whether the U.S. will respond with moral clarity, strategic realism, and principled accountability.
According to the study, the best state to start a business is Florida.
Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ 1 year of Trump 2.0 ▪ Trump’s Greenland letter sparks blowback ▪ Cassidy charts path after presidential snub ▪ Putin gets Trump invite to join Gaza board President Trump is taking a broad view of
“We’re middle-aged,” podcaster Jennifer Welch says of herself and her co-host, Angie Sullivan. “We’re Fox News–coded.” The Fovibe can leave people uneasy, she says. “‘ Oh, shit, where were these women on January 6?’” But the J6 impression doesn’t last. On their hugely popular
In 2025, Donald Trump scared people. And institutions. Go back in your mind to the way he came out of the gate, gunning the accelerator on every front. Pardoning the insurrectionists. Dismantling the executive branch. Firing inspectors general and heads and members of
The normal and abnormal are as closely intertwined as ever as President Trump marks the end of his first year back in office Tuesday. Some of Trump’s strengths and weaknesses as he begins Year 2 are the standard stuff of politics: voter unease about the economy, approval
In much of rural Wisconsin, manure is everywhere. It’s in the ground, the drinking water, and the air communities breathe. The state is home to more than 300 concentrated animal-feeding operation s , or CAFOs, which produce billions of pounds of manure every year. Kim Dupre, a
Iran may be closer to a revolutionary moment than at any point since 1979—but it is not yet in a revolutionary transition. The mistake many observers make is to treat visible unrest as evidence of imminent collapse. History suggests otherwise. Cycles of protest and repression
President Trump’s slumping job approval numbers and the public controversies swirling around his second term in office are putting a strain on his relationship with GOP senators, who are looking for ways to distance themselves from the president heading into the November
An effort to curb the big business of college sports is gaining steam on Capitol Hill, where a growing number of lawmakers in both parties are outraged at the NCAA and signaling intervention from Congress on athlete compensation and revenue sharing is inevitable. Monday’s
My teenager and I were a block from the intersection where Renee Good was shot in the face, an hour before it happened. This is a Minneapolis story, about children who barely remember the choking smoke of the George Floyd uprising fires, and the mom who closed all the windows
Last week, President Trump unleashed an angry tirade over anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, threatening to invoke the “INSURRECTION ACT” against “professional agitators and insurrectionists,” i.e. , ordinary people. On Friday, Trump seemed to suggest he might not, but he also
A lack of Democratic cooperation and strict Senate rules threaten the legislative viability of the White House framework.
President Trump on Monday declined to say whether he would use force to seize control of Greenland, according to a new interview with NBC News. The president told the outlet that he had "no comment" on the question, as he continues to push for the U.S. to acquire the Arctic
The number of deaths during widespread protests in Iran now exceeds 4,000, according to a human rights group tracking the toll. The Human Rights Group Activist News Agency announced Monday that confirmed fatalities have reached 4,029, with more than 9,000 deaths under review.
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, cardiologist to the late former Vice President Dick Cheney, called on Monday for a congressional inquiry into President Trump’s fitness. Reiner, a CNN medical analyst, cited Trump’s recent letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, in which he