President Trump on Thursday morning will welcome Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for a working visit at the White House. An administration official told The Hill earlier this week that the discussions will focus on economic and security matters between the two
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the nation’s highest court doesn’t feature “purely political actors,” comments that come after a notable decision affecting the Voting Rights Act. “I think, at a very basic level, people think we’re making policy
Indiana State Sen. Greg Walker (R) stood by his decision to oppose a state-level redistricting plan backed by President Trump last year, even though it likely cost him his job. “I do not,” Walker said during an appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press NOW,” after host Kristen
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security posted a press release on its official website with a large, bold headline: “A ctivist Biden Judge Releases Violent Criminal Illegal Alien Wanted for Murder .” The release named the federal judge, Melissa DuBose, and went on to
Republicans in the South Carolina state House voted on Wednesday to extend their legislative calendar, leaving the door open to drawing new congressional lines after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling rattled the redistricting arms race. The extension must also pass the state
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Sununu (R), the CEO of Airlines for America, said Wednesday that airline ticket prices will increase as jet fuel costs rise. Sununu told host Blake Burman on NewsNation’s “The Hill” that the cost of jet fuel has doubled since the U.S. and Israel
The NCAA is working to modernize college sports with new financial benefits, healthcare, and scholarship support for student-athletes, but is facing challenges from lawsuits and potential employment mandates that could threaten opportunities for student-athletes and programs.
Virginia state Senate leader L. Louise Lucas (D) struck an unyielding tone on Wednesday after federal authorities searched her office and a nearby cannabis dispensary that she co-owns, casting the reported probe against her as politically motivated. “Today’s actions by Federal
Tornado sirens and flooding in Alabama’s state Capitol building couldn’t stop Republican lawmakers from forcing through two redistricting bills in their state legislature Wednesday. The debate ran for five hours over House Bill 1 , which allows for a new special election if
Iranian officials are reviewing the latest U.S. peace proposal to end the more than two-month conflict and address Tehran's nuclear program, a day after President Trump threatened Tehran it would face renewed bombing if it rejects the deal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also
The Trump administration is in panic mode as jet fuel prices continue to soar due to the U.S.-Israeli joint war on Iran and Lebanon, with the president’s advisers pushing him to end the war before summer, according to The Wall Street Journa l . Jet fuel has become twice as
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio’s Attorney General Dave Yost is expected to resign, eight months before the end of his term. Yost is ineligible for reelection and an attempt to run for governor in 2026 failed to gain sufficient momentum after billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy entered
The president has clearly lost the plot of what has become a staggeringly expensive conflict without any clear strategic goal.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) revealed to a local media outlet that she has benign tremor that sometimes causes trembling in her hands, head or voice and is taking medication for the condition but said it “has absolutely no impact on my ability to do my job.” Collins, who is 73,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican early Thursday, days after President Trump reignited his feud with the American-born pontiff over the Iran war. Rubio met with the pope for at 11:30 a.m. local time, according to his daily public schedule. At
A possible peace deal with Iran, President Trump's vengeance on Indiana state legislators who crossed him on redistricting and the latest news from the Capitol and White House. Join The Hill Editor-in-Chief Ian Swanson, campaign editor Sophia Vento, White House and legal
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . You can read a transcript here . California’s gubernatorial race has never had a clear front-runner, says David Dayen , the executive editor of The American
The anti-hate program of the nation's largest state is funding and platforming the very hate it claims to be fighting under the banner of civil rights.
College students pursuing a bachelor's degree expect to earn roughly $80,000 one year after graduation.
“If there is something being hidden, I think at some point we would find this out," James Fitzgerald, a retired FBI agent said.
This is a lightly edited transcript of the May 6 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon . You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon, the host of the The New Republic show Right Now . We have a great guest who’s
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner are slated to give remarks Thursday morning as part of the National Day of Prayer. While Johnson has flexed his political muscle in recent weeks by notching a series of wins for Republicans in
Billionaires in both parties loom large over the political landscape, and more are jumping into the ring with high-profile runs for office during this year’s midterms. The 2024 election was the most expensive election in history, with nearly 20 percent of a whopping $15.9
Export controls did not constrain Huawei; they concentrated its market.
A spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed Thursday that Tehran is reviewing a U.S. proposal to end hostilities, after President Trump threatened Iran against rejecting the deal. Esmaeil Baqaei, the spokesperson for the ministry, told the ISNA news
Democracy can never be a guarantee of outcomes. It is always a contest.
Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority approved the project in April.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 7 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 has been raging
Time has become the weapon of choice, with each side believing it can outlast the other.
In today’s issue: ▪ Becerra’s California surge ▪ FBI picks new targets ▪ Counterterrorism strategy released ▪ Sexual misconduct probes heat up Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has surged to the head of the pack of Democrats running for California
Utah has become the latest epicenter for measles transmission in the U.S., going down a similar path to Texas’s outbreak last year, where a small under-vaccinated pocket within the state fueled widespread transmission. While the measles outbreak in South Carolina came to end
Even if you hate President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign—which has placed about 60,000 undocumented immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and has deported, depending on who you ask, somewhere between 350,000 and 605,000 people—you probably think
Nikimbre Daniels spent her thirties living off the grid. Her homes included a yurt in a meadow in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, countless R.V.s in nearly every region of the country, and even a tent. It was the life she chose after spending her twenties in South
Throughout the American South is an archipelago of majority-Black congressional districts that provide some measure of Black representation in Congress. These districts owe their existence to a combination of basic electoral math, federal court orders, and legislative
A Republican proposal to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money on security for the White House ballroom has become a political landmine in the Senate debate over funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years. Before the
On November 21, 1974, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated bombs in two pubs in Birmingham, England, as part of its campaign to get the British out of Ireland. Twenty-one people were killed, and nearly 200 were injured. It was at the time the deadliest attack in
In the coming century,* New Orleans will be surrounded by ocean. That’s the contention of a paper published this week in Nature Sustainability . It finds that the city has already passed a “point of no return.” The authors recommend taking immediate action to start relocating
The battle over sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill is primed to escalate. For much of this year, the focus of efforts to curtail sexual wrongdoing has been squarely centered around three figures facing high-profile allegations — Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Tony Gonzales
Several former FBI agents are arguing Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) played a significant role in their firings, removals that followed his release of a number of unredacted materials about the criminal investigation into President Trump. That
Donald Trump has been raging at Pope Leo’s criticism of the Iran war for weeks, and he just unleashed his most vile attack yet. Trump accused the pope of “endangering a lot of Catholics” by advocating for peace. Yet a new Washington Post poll finds that Trump is losing this
As candidates for governor of California struggle to stand out in their bids to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), a Wednesday debate saw deep policy debate devolve into bickering among the crowded field. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra (D) was a main
An Iranian official on Wednesday called a reported peace deal for the end to the U.S. war against Iran the “Americans’ wish list.” “Axios' text is Americans' wish list until it becomes reality,” Ebrahim Rezaei, a spokesperson for the Iranian parliament on national security,
Sony was accused of monopolizing the market and driving up prices for specific digital games purchased through the PlayStation Store.
The former president emphasized there’s no way such a secret could stay confidential.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) sparred in a feisty debate with her primary challengers over how to handle wildfires, homelessness and immigration in the country’s second-largest city a month out from the mayoral primary election. “Our mayor is the CEO of the city. She sets
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) has left the ICU after he was hospitalized over the weekend, according to a spokesperson. In a statement to The Hill, Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman said that the former New York City mayor was “out of the ICU and will spend some
A purported suicide note by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been released by a judge, according to multiple reports. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the note, which had spent years sealed, was released by the judge in Epstein's cellmate's criminal case.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressional hearings last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
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One of President Trump’s economic advisers projected a “very, very strong” job market future in the U.S. on Wednesday, despite price hikes amid the Iran war. “I had the head of one of the big five banks in my office yesterday going through credit card data … and credit card