Nevada’s top court on Thursday evening revived the state’s criminal case against the six “fake electors” who falsely claimed President Trump won the state's 2020 presidential election. A fight over venue had tied the prosecution up for more than a year. Nevada Attorney
President Trump has tapped Paul Ingrassia to be deputy general counsel at the General Services Administration (GSA), less than a month after Ingrassia withdrew his nomination as head of the Office of Special Counsel over racist comments. "Paul Ingrassia is a very helpful
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday he will sue the Department of Justice (DOJ) for $500,000 over investigators obtaining his phone records during special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020
Defense attorneys representing Luigi Mangione on Thursday accused prosecutors and the New York Police Department's (NYPD) chief of detectives of not providing evidence of a purported statement made by Mangione's mother. In December 2024, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump cuts protections for Arctic lands The Trump administration is restoring oil and gas drilling on millions of acres in the Arctic that had been blocked off by former President Biden, it announced Thursday.
Only one Republican senator has public plans to sue under new legislative language House Republicans are now seeking to scrap.
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care The Big Story Democrats pivot to affordability After failing to win an extension of ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies in the government shutdown, Democrats are taking aim at broader health care costs, hoping to use it
The Jeffrey Epstein saga is bad and getting worse for President Trump. A House vote looms, likely next week, on whether the Department of Justice should release all the Epstein files in its possession. The measure might well pass. Passage in the House would not come close to
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday evening a new operation dubbed “Southern Spear” to quash “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere. Hegseth said the mission is being led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) to defend
Pennsylvania will no longer seek to be part of a regional climate agreement among states in the Northeast U.S. A recent budget deal ends the commonwealth's effort to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), according to a statement from state Senate
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Swalwell blasts referral for alleged mortgage fraud The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has reportedly made a criminal referral for Rep. Eric Swalwell
The hemp industry is regrouping and gearing up for a significant lobbying blitz following passage of the government funding package that contained a provision they say would outlaw nearly all hemp products. The legislation clarifies the definition of hemp to ban all
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, hours after Democrats on the committee released emails in which the disgraced financier alleged that President Trump
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday blasted conservative attorney George Conway online for calling into question Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Conway wrote that Blanche's July questioning of
The Trump administration is restoring oil and gas drilling on millions of acres in the Arctic that had been blocked off by former President Biden, it announced Thursday. The administration issued a press release saying it was issuing a final rule to rescind the Biden-era
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense & National Security Defense & National Security The Big Story US military kills 4 in 20th strike on alleged drug boats The Pentagon earlier this week carried out its 20th strike on a boat it claimed was
The White House said Thursday it had reached framework agreements on trade deals with four Latin American countries to lower tariffs on some goods, such as coffee and bananas. The administration outlined deals with Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador and Guatemala. Administration
The BBC is warning Donald Trump that he doesn’t have a real defamation case.
Lawmakers in the House have secured enough signatures on a discharge petition to force a vote on the floor regarding the release of files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have led the measure seeking
The U.S. military conducted its 20th lethal strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Monday, killing four "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean Sea, a Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Hill on Thursday. There were no survivors following
The conservative commentator is downplaying Epstein’s crimes as his new emails come to light.
She was a high school student who wanted to pay for braces.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday that the air travel system “should return to normal by the weekend” after recent chaos caused by the government shutdown. “[Transportation] Secretary [Sean] Duffy did the right thing by getting ahead when they saw that the staffing
The BBC has issued an apology to the White House over the way it edited a clip of President Trump speaking to his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, before the attack on the Capitol. The apology came just days after Trump's attorneys threatened to sue the British broadcaster for $1
Donald Trump remains unbothered by the Epstein chaos.
A judge seemed skeptical of the Justice Department’s arguments that Lindsey Halligan had been properly appointed.
The Democratic representative has been referred to the Justice Department as Donald Trump takes his revenge.
The U.S. State Department has warned Americans traveling to Japan to watch their surroundings after more than a dozen people have been killed by bears in the country so far in 2025. Japanese authorities closed Maruyama Park in Sapporo, close to the U.S. Consulate General, for
The Trump administration is entering the legal fight against California’s newly passed congressional map that adds as many as five pickup opportunities for Democrats. The Justice Department asked to formally intervene Thursday in a lawsuit filed by the California Republican
Doctors discovered Fetterman had had a ventricular fibrillation flare-up, a form of cardiac arrest.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has reportedly made a criminal referral for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), sending information to the Justice Department accusing him of mortgage fraud. A vocal critic of President Trump, Swalwell is the fourth known figure to have his
A spokesperson said the senator was on an early morning walk near his home in Pennsylvania when he felt lightheaded and fell to the ground.
A quarter of American households are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new analysis from Bank of America. Slow wage growth has contributed to an increase in households with limited savings. Lower-income and middle-aged households bear the brunt of rising costs. The
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Thursday that four European-based groups would be designated as terrorist organizations as part of the administration's commitment to confront the “antifa” movement — a catch-all term for far-left groups opposing fascism, sometimes
If you've got a retirement plan, you'll be able to save more in 2026.
Diana Santillana Galeano, a day care teacher arrested by ICE in Chicago, has been released from custody. Her legal team will continue to pursue her immigration claims to stay in the US.
Wilkins began dating Patel n early 2023 and attended his swearing-in ceremony at the White House in February.
A recently released email suggests Maxwell knew Trump had spent time at Epstein’s house.
Lewis requested the pardon to receive medical treatment and visit his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The Beeb has a history of making stupid mistakes. It survives them and always will. But why does it always seem to be caught flat-footed by them?
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will be restored in full by Monday. “We, immediately last night, began moving out, making sure that the program continues unabated, starting once the government
U.S. Catholic bishops voted to officially ban Catholic hospitals from performing gender-affirming care for any transgender patients. Wednesday’s vote to update the “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services” will have significant impacts on patients
Mohammed bin Salman isn’t the head of Saudi Arabia, but Donald Trump is pulling out all the stops for him anyway.
Jim Avila, a veteran reporter for ABC News, died this week after a long illness, the network reported Thursday. Avila, 69, reported for marquee ABC News programs like "20/20" and "World News Tonight" during his decades-long career with the broadcast network. He covered some of
Longtime cable news host Chris Matthews said Democrats’ “snobbery” had compelled working-class voters to support President Trump and Republican-leaning candidates. Matthews joined MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” to promote his new book, “Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F.
Fewer women want to deal with the consequences of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The Justice Department is on the hunt for someone who attempted to “confront” Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, after entering her office. “Last night, an individual attempted to confront one of our U.S. Attorneys — my dear friend
A Senate subcommittee will hold a hearing next week on how the government shutdown impacted the safety of the country’s air travel system. The hearing, in front of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s aviation subcommittee, is set for 2:30 p.m. EST
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Rep. LaMonica McIver’s (D-N.J.) claims the Trump administration is selectively and vindictively prosecuting her for accusations she assaulted agents during a visit to an immigration facility in May. U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper’s ruling
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was hospitalized on Thursday after suffering facial injuries from a fall during a walk near his home in Western Pennsylvania. According to a Fetterman spokesperson, the Pennsylvania Democrat was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital "out of an