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The Trump administration is seeking $1.4 billion from Congress to address the worsening Ebola outbreak in Africa, including $800 million towards the construction of a controversial quarantine facility in Kenya, according to a White House funding request released late
Justice Samuel Alito responded tersely to Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday morning after the liberal justice read her blistering dissent to his majority opinion in a case on asylum seekers. The court's 6-3 ruling along ideological lines opens the door for the Trump
The U.S. Treasury Department must support a new major SDR allocation to help save lives and create jobs in the U.S. and around the world, as hundreds of millions of people face hunger and the threat of malnutrition.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a blistering dissent from the bench Thursday after the Supreme Court opened the door for the Trump administration to revive an immigration policy that allows border officials to block asylum seekers who do not physically cross the southern
For years, lawyers working for the fossil fuel industry have done everything in their power to keep state courts from weighing the factual evidence in climate accountability cases. During just the past decade, our communities have lost roughly $1.5 trillion in damages from
Fox News host Sean Hannity addressed online chatter about his health in a social media post on Wednesday after viewers raised concerns about his appearance on the air in recent days. "Thanks to everyone who has checked in. I’ve already addressed this several times on my radio
Dozens of tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, via a route along the coast of Oman promoted by a United Nations maritime agency. Confirmed strait crossings rose to 70 on Thursday, an increase of 105 percent relative to a day prior, according to data and
Only 250,000 of these special quarters are being released into circulation.
The Supreme Court has delivered President Trump two significant victories in his mass deportation campaign. On Thursday, the court’s conservative majority voted 6–3 in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado to approve a “metering” policy allowing Border Patrol agents to turn away migrants
Podcaster Joe Rogan said organizers of the UFC Freedom 250 primetime fight night held at the White House earlier this month should not have booked one of the fighters who made an offensive comment about Michelle Obama. Rogan, who served as emcee for the event and endorsed
An impasse sparked by the stalled SAVE America Act could keep the chamber in recess well into next month.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) said early Thursday that more people have been arrested over alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool than from files connected to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “There's been more people arrested over this than the
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the biotechnology corporation Monsanto on Thursday, saying the company did not have to include a cancer warning on a pesticide label. In a 7–2 ruling which crossed ideological lines, the justices wrote that a federal pesticide regulation
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just accused the Supreme Court of caring more about guns than the actual law. The court issued a 6–3 decision Thursday along ideological lines to scrap Hawaii’s law prohibiting gun owners from taking their weapons onto private
President Trump and Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino spoke in February before the ticketing giant settled its antitrust case with the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to new court documents. In a filing Monday, the company said Rapino “discussed a variety of topics related
The House of Representatives has passed seven major fraud fighting bills and 15 less controversial measures in June, spurred by a recent report accusing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison of being aware of taxpayer fraud in federally funded social
Two in three Americans are facing financial hardship due to increased gas prices, according to a new poll gauging the Iran war's impact on the U.S. economy. In the Gallup poll, 67 percent of respondents said “recent price increases in gasoline” have resulted in “financial
Two ICE agents harassed a poll worker on Election Day, demanding she remove social media posts they claimed threatened federal agents, according to Syracuse.com . Paigelynne Gonyea, a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, said she received a phone call Tuesday from two ICE agents
President Trump will attend a fireworks show next Friday in South Dakota at the historic Mount Rushmore landmark. South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) announced Trump’s attendance in a Thursday press release lauding the three-day weekend of Independence Day celebrations. “It is
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Trump administration can cut off temporary legal protections for thousands of Haitians and Syrians, deciding that federal judges have no authority to weigh in on many of the challengers’ claims. It hands the president a major victory on his
New York State Assembly member Claire Valdez, the Democratic House nominee in the Empire State‘s 7th Congressional District, deflected criticism from Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) regarding her campaign and other democratic socialist candidates. “It’s a big-tent party. … I think
Two filings in separate slush fund cases last week threaten to reignite the political firestorm in Congress over the fund and its prospective use to handsomely reward January 6 offenders. In a case challenging the fund brought in the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Leonie
Popularity should follow outcomes, and our votes should be based on who gets problems solved.
Republicans as well as Democrats want certainty the effort is officially dead.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the government may legally turn back asylum seekers who are attempting to reach a port of entry before they hit U.S. soil, greenlighting a now-rescinded immigration policy that the Trump administration wants
The Supreme Court on Thursday restricted Americans’ ability to sue pesticide makers over alleged health harms stemming from their products. In a 7-2 ruling, the court held that some claims that pesticide companies failed to warn users of their products’ health risks are blocked
The Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated Hawaii’s gun restrictions on private property in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, ruling it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. Justice Samuel Alito agreed with gun rights advocates that the state can’t block handgun
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Democratic leaders Thursday he plans to force a vote on legislation blocking the creation of President Trump’s "anti-weaponization" fund and a related deal to bar investigation of his and his
New York House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier (D) said Wednesday that she will not respond to being called a communist, arguing her campaign ideals were deeply connected to the Democratic Party’s core base despite her ties to socialism. “That framing is one that I’ve been
We are experiencing a global refugee crisis, and have been for a long time.
New polling averages put President Trump’s approval at around 20 points underwater and trending downward as voters sour on the economy and the Iran war. Meanwhile, are democratic socialists becoming the Tea Party of the left? Join The Hill’s senior vice president of editorial
Democratic strategist James Carville said he wouldn’t place Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 13th Congressional District, in the House Democratic Caucus if she wins in November. “They should not seat her in the caucus. Her views are totally
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin will testify before a House Appropriations Committee panel on oversight of the agency. The hearing comes after months of turmoil between federal immigration enforcement officers and states over how DHS carries out
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) said voters showed they were exhausted with “status quo politics” by backing democratic socialists in New York state and federal primaries on Tuesday. Three Mamdani-backed candidates won their Democratic primaries for seats in the House
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) on Wednesday mocked comedian Larry David for calling the UFC fights at the White House "embarrassing." When TMZ’s Jacob Wasserman asked Fetterman how he would respond to David, the Pennsylvania Democrat replied, “I’d say lighten up,
The doubletalk coming from many congressional Democrats in response to President Trump’s peace initiative with Iran has been a political wonder to behold. While correctly declaring that Trump should not have started the war, they’ve routinely gone on to condemn the memorandum
Some are calling it the Democratic Tea Party. While establishment Democrats are still downplaying Tuesday night’s primary wins by democratic socialists, progressives say that the New York victories of Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila Chevalier represent a new era
Christopher Phelan, President Trump's pick to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers, will testify before the Senate Housing, Banking and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday morning for his nomination to lead the key advisory panel. If confirmed by the Senate, the
President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair was off to a rocky start. Dozens of attendees Wednesday were seen flocking toward the exits in the middle of Trump’s address, which was meant to kick-start the two-week event. Crowds flock towards the exit in the middle of
Annual inflation hit the highest level in more than three years last month as prices across the economy rose at an even quicker pace, according to data released Thursday by the Commerce Department. Prices rose 4.1 percent over the past year and 0.7 percent in May alone, as
Together, Massie and Greene paint a picture of conservative voters who are disappointed in Trump and who are not MAGA true believers.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Donald Trump privately raged
President Trump said late Wednesday that the Senate striking down another war powers resolution “puts Iran on notice” amid negotiations between the two nations for a long-term deal to end the conflict in the region. “Wow! The Senate just changed its vote on Iran from 50-48
Republican senators proved yet again that their spines are made of pudding on Wednesday, rejecting a resolution to limit President Donald Trump’s war powers, the AP reported . The flip-flop came after Trump blew up at GOP senators for voting “yes” on a similar bill just one day
President Trump notched key wins Thursday morning for his immigration agenda with new rulings from the Supreme Court. In one case, the high court ruled the Trump administration can end temporary legal protections for thousands of Haitians and Syrians, finding federal judges
The polling points to a nail-biter of an election night.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) says he won’t “be bullied into silence” after he got into a shouting match with President Trump during a meeting Wednesday at the Capitol, where the two men clashed heatedly over Cassidy’s vote the day before for a resolution to curtail Trump’s war
China is not merely policing dissent or curbing religious practice, but attempting something more permanent.
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison’s political group focused on turning out rural voters, Dirt Road Democrats PAC, is making its first slate of endorsements as the midterms ramp up. Harrison told The Hill in an exclusive interview that the