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% tariff on his wines and champagnes and he’ll join. But
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.
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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 cohost 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 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 independent
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 (CAFOs) that produce billions of pounds of manure every year. Kim Dupre, a clean
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
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) aircraft will soon be in Greenland for “long-planned” activities, even as President Trump pushes for U.S. control of the Arctic territory. Along with aircraft operating from bases in the U.S. and Canada, NORAD aircraft at
President Trump on Monday attended the College Football Playoff National Championship in Florida taking place on the Martin Luther King, Jr., federal holiday. Trump, who has been at Mar-a-Lago over the long weekend, was in attendance to watch the Indiana Hoosiers battle the
Brooklyn Beckham alleged that Victoria was supposed to make Peltz’s wedding dress but ended up canceling.
Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday announced thousands of arrests in Minneapolis, Minn., as part of the administration’s ongoing crackdown on immigration. “PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS! We have arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who
The share of Americans who are satisfied with the amount of Jeffrey Epstein-related files released so far is in the single digits, new polling shows. Just 6 percent of Americans in a CNN survey said they’re satisfied with what the federal government has released so far in the
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) bashed President Trump over a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, in which the president detailed his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland. “Very embarrassing conduct,” the Nebraska lawmaker wrote on the social platform X, sharing a
A solar radiation storm stronger than one we've seen in over two decades is in progress, the Space Weather Prediction Center announced Monday.
Leading business and political figures are descending upon the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss geopolitics, tech, trade and more. The Alpine town is set to host roughly 3,000 participants from more than 130 countries at what the
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are in crunch time. So far, Congress has passed six of the 12 appropriations bills needed to fund the government. The House last week passed an additional two-bill package known as a minibus that would fund the State Department and the
A winter snowstorm caused a pileup of roughly 100 cars in Zeeland Township, Mich., on Monday. The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) posted on Facebook that the crash occurred on Interstate 196 near 64th Avenue. As a result, the highway is closed in both directions between
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with members of Congress about a range of issues Monday, from transatlantic trade to President Trump’s push to acquire Greenland. “In Davos, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the United States Congress. We discussed
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte met with officials from Denmark and Greenland on Monday to discuss “collective security” as President Trump pushes to acquire the semiautonomous Danish territory. “We discussed how important the Arctic - including Greenland - is to our
Democrats on Capitol Hill slammed and mocked President Trump’s letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, in which the president elaborated on his motives for acquiring Greenland. In the letter shared with multiple European ambassadors, Trump questioned why Denmark
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said he fears the “moment where it all explodes” amid tensions over the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown. “We're in this 2020 moment where all these tensions have been building, and I'm afraid
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon slammed former CNN anchor Don Lemon for interrupting a Minnesota church service Sunday, as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue to roil the state. Lemon filmed and interviewed Nekima Levy Armstrong, an
Protests in Iran have been quelled, with the regime still in place, and President Trump's empty threat to take action against the government has been met with criticism for not backing up his words with action.
The three highest-ranking Catholic cardinals who lead archdioceses in the United States issued a statement Monday criticizing U.S. foreign policy as overly militaristic, referencing President Trump's recent operation in Venezuela and threats to take Greenland by force. In a
Ho’s own article and conduct display some of the very qualities he condemns in others.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) job managing the House GOP’s paper-thin majority is getting only more difficult in the new year, with a culture of rebellion — and a perfect storm of external political factors — threatening to derail the party’s agenda just as Republicans are