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Trump eyes 2026 road show after GOP losses

Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Trump poised to hit the road in new year ▪ Indiana Republicans reject redistricting ▪ White House doubles down on Venezuela ▪ Supreme Court considers taking up gun cases President Trump relayed to

Wim Wenders to Head Berlin Film Festival Jury

Celebrated German director Wim Wenders will serve as the jury president at the 76th Berlin Film Festival in February. The trailblazing filmmaker, who is one of the pioneers of the New German Cinema movement, has worked across both fiction and documentary over his six-decade

Supreme Court confronts gun rights pileup

An unusually large pileup of Second Amendment challenges has landed at the Supreme Court, which will consider taking up the cases behind closed doors Friday. It would add to what is already a major term for gun rights. The justices previously agreed to hear two cases early

Something Is Rotten in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet

“Time and again,” wrote George Steiner in his 1996 essay “A Preface to the Hebrew Bible,” “I have sought to imagine, albeit indistinctly, Shakespeare remarking at home or to some intimate on whether or not work on Hamlet or Othello had, that day, gone well or poorly.”

Republicans spooked by string of disappointing elections

Republicans are feeling spooked by recent special elections losses and underperformances in party strongholds, as the White House ramps up President Trump’s presence on the campaign trail ahead of next year’s midterm elections. On Tuesday, Democrats flipped Miami’s mayoral

ObamaCare impasse sets stage for January health care battle

Only a holiday miracle can prevent ObamaCare subsidies from expiring on Jan. 1, setting up a major health care fight next month when lawmakers turn their attention to a 2026 spending bill and another potential shutdown fight. After dueling partisan bills failed in the Senate

John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70

Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that the president of the United States had “absolute” criminal immunity for his “official acts,” as well as lesser degrees of immunity for other acts committed while president. This decision in Trump v. United States

Have you heard of ELSA? Probably not recently…

Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen recently announced Denmark’s intent to acquire long-range strike weapons. The country, usually a model student of transatlanticism, recently chose a European solution for its air defence, signalling it might also select European-made options

Argentina rejects UK and Israeli oil plans for Malvinas

Argentina's Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a vigorous rejection of a reported "Final Investment Decision" by British company Rockhopper Exploration Plc and Israel's Navitas Petroleum Development and Production Limited regarding the "Sea Lion" oil field in the North