President Trump thinks that an event where he is surrounded by children is the best time to discuss the Iran war, and then doze off. On Tuesday, at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office to restore the Presidential Fitness Award, Trump went off on a tangent on the war while
Donald Trump does not have the same sway that he used to. The MAGA leader’s supposedly astronomical influence over the Republican Party is being tested in the run-up to the November midterms, Politico reported early Tuesday. There’s plenty of evidence that his pull is fading.
A second judge on Monday barred the Justice Department from searching a Washington Post journalist’s devices, upholding a previous ruling blocking the government from gaining digital access to sensitive sources and other information. U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga
Republican strategist Karl Rove said Monday that current polling does not foreshadow a “tsunami” for Democrats in the upcoming midterms. “So, this election’s going to be a wild one. It's going to be very close, in my opinion. It's going to be settled by a relatively small
A group of Senate Democrats are demanding that the Trump administration re-impose the sanctions it temporarily lifted on Russian oil to offset rising energy costs amid the Iran war. Fourteen Democratic senators urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to end this short-term
President Trump is dumping toxic debris containing lead and chromium from his East Wing demolition onto East Potomac Golf Links—raising more questions about the health and safety standards tied to his vanity project, and potentially putting golfers in harm’s way. And the
Trump’s firing of immigration judges is improper, impractical and a threat to the integrity of immigration courts. Judges must not be forced to choose between their loyalty to the president or to the law.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Education is targeting Smith College for accepting transgender women. The DOE’s Office of Civil Rights announced Monday that it would investigate Smith College for allowing “biological males into women’s intimate spaces” in violation of
You may want to pack your own snacks.
CNN analyst Van Jones on Monday defended Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) against criticism from inside the Democratic Party amid reports that some Republicans are quietly trying to persuade the senator to switch parties or become an independent ahead of the midterm elections.
A civil rights group filed suit Monday challenging Florida’s new congressional map, just hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed it into law. In a 71-page complaint filed in the Sunshine State’s Second Judicial Circuit, the Equal Ground Education Fund and 19 Floridians allege
They’re impotently failing as a co-equal branch of government to stop a catastrophic disaster for America and the entire planet.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Thursday will include a “frank conversation” about disagreements between the Vatican and the Trump administration, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See said Tuesday. Brian Burch, who took up his post in September,
MAGA’s best case scenario for the war in Iran is, apparently, a return to the prewar status quo. In an interview with Fox News Monday night, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham claimed that the U.S. would win the Middle East war if it regained “freedom of navigation in the
Three major artificial intelligence firms have agreed to share their models with the federal government to be tested ahead of deployment, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced Tuesday. As part of the agreements, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday reversed course on his push to deploy troops to take control of Kharg Island, which handles roughly 90 percent of Iran’s crude oil exports. “I’m not a real advocate of taking Kharg Island. I think we oughta tell the Iranians we will
Soil taken from the White House as part of construction for President Trump's ballroom project which was dumped at nearby East Potomac Park tested positive for toxic chemicals, according to a new report. The soil, which was dumped near one of the three golf courses at East
President Trump is trying to get the personal information of thousands of election workers and volunteers in Fulton County, Georgia, who helped with the 2020 election. The Fulton County Board of Elections filed a 27-page motion Monday to block a Department of Justice subpoena
A federal appeals court just made it harder to access mifepristone, one of the most commonly used medications for abortion and miscarriage care in the U.S. It did this not because it’s unsafe, or because new evidence came out, but because it’s all part of a plan to ban abortion
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced Tuesday that the cryptocurrency exchange is laying off hundreds of employees, pointing to the market’s current downswing and recent AI advancements. The company plans to reduce its workforce by about 14 percent, Armstrong said in an email
Republicans’ House campaign arm is arguing that, six months out from election day, its financial advantage over Democrats will help protect the party’s House majority in the midterms. In a new memo, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) touted its $78.2
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is trailing his state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, ahead of their upcoming primary runoff for Cornyn’s seat. In the poll from the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston, 48 percent of likely voters backed Paxton, while 45
The party-line measure is on track to be enacted by the end of the month.
Things aren't looking good for much of the late-night TV landscape, according to David Letterman, who says he'd be "surprised" if some programs last "more than a year or so." Letterman, who launched "The Late Show" in 1993 and served as its host until 2015, opened up about its
The Iran war will be at the forefront Tuesday when Secretary of State Marco Rubio becomes the first person to stand in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt as she begins her maternity leave. Iran and the U.S. exchange fire on Monday as the Trump administration began "Project
The federal government secretly used your tax dollars to settle sexual harassment claims against House members for decades. According to documents from the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights and Republican Representative Nancy Mace, who recently forced the release of
It seems Republicans have their best California opportunity in a while.
The war in Iran has done very little damage to the country’s nuclear capabilities, according to U.S. intelligence assessments. So far, America has been at war with Iran for more than nine weeks and spent at least $25 billion in the process. The regional conflict has damaged
Another Republican governor is refusing to bend to Donald Trump’s demand to rig their state’s elections in his favor. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, a longtime Trump ally, is not preparing to call a special legislative session to redraw his state’s congressional map
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with
In a new television ad, California Democrat Katie Porter pokes fun at her viral interaction with a staffer, asking people to "please get out of my shot."
Political commentator Bill O’Reilly said Monday that President Trump can neither afford to resume the conflict with Iran or afford not to, as recent polling suggests Americans are growing increasingly unsatisfied with the handling of the war and the economy. “Well, it’s both,”
Two cases of a rare virus have been confirmed on board a cruise ship where a total of three people have died, according to the World Health Organization. One adult woman has died and one adult man is hospitalized in a South African intensive care unit as a result of a
Still fresh off its recent $375 million jury verdict against Meta, New Mexico attorney general Raul Torrez's office began arguing for even greater asks in the second phase of a landmark trial. On Monday, an attorney for the state, David Ackerman, pressed the court for a $3.7
A majority of Democrats in the House and Senate submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to protect access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Forty-seven Democratic senators and 212 House members urged the high court to overturn the Fifth Circuit Court
The Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais has been met with outrage from the left, but is a necessary change due to the increasing difficulty of racial gerrymandering in the face of growing multiracial populations and mobile citizens.
The Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee on Monday night released legislative text for the $72 billion budget reconciliation bill that would bypass Democratic opposition to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through
Democrats are having an outsider moment with Graham Platner, who is set to be the party's candidate for the Maine Senate battle and has sparked questions about whether a similar kind of contender could be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028. Plus: former Vice President
President Trump on Tuesday morning will sign a proclamation from the Oval Office related to the Presidential Fitness Test. Trump signed an executive order last July to bring back the test, which was replaced in 2013 with the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, which emphasized
Reducing the power of voters of color hurts Democrats and helps Republicans.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said hundreds of commercial ships are lining up to leave the Strait of Hormuz as the United States has erected a “red, white and blue dome” over the corridor, which has been largely closed off by Iran since the start of the war. President Trump
About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we've heard from some of the most powerful people in tech - including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk's fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis
Danish shipping company Maersk said on Monday that a U.S.-flagged vessel has exited the Persian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz under U.S. military protection. The Alliance Fairfax, operated by the company’s Farrell Lines subsidiary, had been stranded in the Gulf
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday morning that the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is not over after both sides traded fire on Monday in the Strait of Hormuz as "Project Freedom" went into effect. "No, the ceasefire is not over. Ultimately, this is a separate and distinct
Republicans are now trying to get $1 billion in taxpayer funding for President Trump’s ballroom. Senator Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, included a request for the funds in a reconciliation package released Monday night. The $1 billion would go to the
A federal magistrate judge on Monday said he was “very troubled” by the treatment of the alleged gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner shooting last month. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui raised concerns with the suspect, Cole Allen, being placed on
The Hill presents two-and-a-half hours of live, real-time primary night coverage on Tuesday evening, diving deep into the 2026 Indiana and Ohio primaries. Coverage will be anchored by Cory Smith from "Sunrise on The Hill" and The Hill's political editor and host of NewsNation's
Companies that value flexibility are setting themselves up to win in 2026 and beyond.
Two people were killed Monday in a new targeted strike on a vessel traveling on a “known narco-trafficking” route in the Caribbean Sea, according to U.S. Southern Command (Southcom). The deaths mark the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s military campaign to crack
President Trump is still beefing with Pope Leo XIV, accusing the first American pope of “ endangering a lot of Catholics , ” on The Hugh Hewitt Show on Monday. Trump attacked the pope unprovoked after Hewitt said perhaps the pope could speak up about China’s detention of Hong
