The captain of the Iranian men’s national football ripped FIFA and its president Gianni Infantino on Friday for its experience during the World Cup, as it awaits word on whether its tournament run has come to an end. “It’s a disaster World Cup,” Mehdi Taremi told reporters
President Trump’s intense focus on passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act is threatening to put Republicans at risk ahead of the midterm elections as the party finds itself on uneven footing with voters on affordability. Trump sent shockwaves
Voters in Louisiana are heading to the polls Saturday to weigh in on the Republican Senate runoff following Sen. Bill Cassidy's ouster last month. GOP Rep. Julia Letlow and state treasurer John Fleming advanced from the initial May primary after neither candidate secured over
President Trump announced his nomination of Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday. The president commended Schroyer’s experience as a former Oklahoma state trooper and U.S. Marine in a Truth Social post, calling him a
Louisiana Republicans will decide their nominee for Senate on Saturday in a runoff that has become another test of President Trump’s influence over the party. GOP voters in the Pelican State have already demonstrated their loyalty to Trump, crushing incumbent Sen. Bill
An Alaska judge ruled on Friday that a candidate with the same name and party affiliation as Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) can stay on the ballot to challenge the incumbent senator for his seat, overturning a previous ban on his candidacy. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews
Second lady Usha Vance poked fun at a New York Times article examining the public image of pregnant women in President Trump’s orbit, joking that she did not realize her maternity dress carried so much “political significance.” “Now that we know the political significance of my
Jensen Huang warns that AI is changing the rules of everyday survival and creating a two-tier caste system, with those who can command AI and those who cannot, and those who refuse to adapt will be left behind.
CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pushed back on President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about the rise of democratic socialism in the U.S., which Trump has incorrectly conflated with communism, following several victories from progressive House candidates in New
President Trump on Friday shared a new rendering of a limited-edition “Patriot Passport” featuring his image for America’s 250th anniversary. A sample image shared on the president’s social media depicts Trump standing with his fists on the Resolute Desk and the text of the
Despite declining obesity and heart disease rates, increasing cancer survival rates, and a record high life expectancy, politicians from both parties are pushing costly and ineffective policies to address perceived crises in the healthcare industry.
Apple is looking to alleviate some of the pressure on its supply chain by seeking an exception from the Trump administration to buy RAM chips from CXMT, a company blacklisted by the Pentagon over ties to the People's Liberation Army, according to the Financial Times. The
About four million Americans have dropped out of Affordable Care Act insurance coverage this year as costs soared due to the loss of enhanced subsidies. The figures released late Friday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offer the most complete look to date at
The delicate ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was put to the test on Friday when the U.S. military reopened strikes against the Middle Eastern nation over an alleged infringement of the agreement’s terms. President Trump called the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s attack
The years since Obama left office have underscored for me just how important character, temperament and respect for the rule of law are for a president.
A concert intending to commemorate America’s 250th birthday as part of President Trump‘s “Great American State Fair,” was abruptly canceled Friday just two hours before “Ice Ice Baby” rapper Vanilla Ice was set to take the stage. Freedom 250 event organizers announced that the
Like lemmings marching off a cliff, a certain percentage of voters, most especially the disenfranchised, will always vote for the candidate promising a “chicken in every pot.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is cashing in on his relationship with President Trump, scoring benefits from sanctions relief to dropped court cases ahead of a high-stakes NATO summit in Ankara next month. Trump’s decision to greenlight a more than $700 million
Vice President Vance stood by the administration’s Iran strategy Friday, saying the U.S. will come out on top regardless of whether peace negotiations with Tehran produce a deal. “If we make the final deal, then great. If we don’t make the deal, their nuclear program is still
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) expressed its support for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday evening in response to Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-Mich.) call for “new leadership” in the Democratic Party. “The Congressional Black Caucus and House Democrats
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A California appeals court on Friday upheld ex-Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s 2022 rape and sexual assault conviction in the state but ordered that the trial judge who gave him 16 years in prison resentence him. A unanimous three-judge panel from California’s 2nd
Here's why this seemingly modest change is a watershed moment for America’s abused and neglected children.
A Utah judge in the case against Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer held a top prosecutor in contempt on Friday over comments he made to the media about the case’s defendant, but the judge opted to keep the death penalty on the table. Judge Tony Graf said during a court hearing on
President Trump made a final appeal to Louisiana Republicans on Friday to support Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) in Saturday’s Senate runoff election, calling the lawmaker a “Great Star” and a “TOTAL WINNER” in one of this year’s most closely watched GOP primaries. Letlow faces off
The deadline to apply is fast-approaching.
By the time the establishment figures realized their armchair-revolutionary rhetoric would not convince the mob, it was too late.
Comedian Bill Maher on Friday challenged Vice President Vance over President Trump’s false claims of election fraud, saying the GOP must stop insisting they were “cheated” by losses and return to a place where candidates concede defeat. “Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes
. State governments are competent to regulate these matters, and the Constitution’s federalist architecture cannot tolerate further encroachments from the banks of the Potomac River.
Trump is far from the first president to get his name on an airport.
Shiela Boyd, an 81-year-old New York resident, had her benefits suddenly cut from $298 a month to just $24.
Iran launched a drone attack against Bahrain early Saturday, hours after the U.S. military carried out strikes on Iranian military sites. Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, said it was attacked by a number of Iranian drones and condemned the latest strikes as a
Oil is nearing its prewar price after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) intended to end the conflict, but gasoline prices remain significantly elevated. While President Trump has blamed Big Oil for price “gouging,” analysts say it’s individual gas
The election of a trio of far-left candidates in New York’s primaries could create headaches for House Democratic leadership determined to stage a unified and effective pushback to President Trump should the party retake the chamber. Recent years under Republican leadership
We’re closing in on July Fourth and the nation’s 250th birthday, and right on time, the all-knowing digital algorithm deposited a memory from 2015 on my screen: That year, burning the Confederate flag on Independence Day was in vogue, sparked by the mass shooting at the Emanuel
President Trump slammed his former national security adviser after he pleaded guilty on Friday to improperly retaining sensitive materials from his time in the White House. “John Bolton, a very dumb, unbalanced, and unskilled former representative of the United States of
The CBC emphatically declared its support Friday for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Anthropic can now share its most advanced AI model with over 100 companies after the U.S. government lifted its export ban on Claude Mythos 5 on Friday, a spokesperson for Anthropic confirmed in a statement to the Hill. The decision reflects a major change since the government
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly had a blunt message to the thousands of Haitians and Syrians protected from deportation under a form of humanitarian relief after the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday the Trump administration could end these protections. “We don’t want you. We
Jacqueline Smith, the ombudsman of outlet Stars and Stripes who was ousted in April after she criticized the Pentagon’s new restrictions on the newspaper, is suing the Defense Department. In a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., Smith alleges that
The revised bipartisan package is scheduled to be considered on the House floor next week under suspension of the rules.
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Why are gas prices still so high? Oil is nearing its pre-war price after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) intended to end the conflict, but gasoline remains significantly
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Back at it with Iran? The U.S. military said it conducted strikes against Iranian sites on Friday, less than an hour after President Trump indicated
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Thursday re-upped Democratic-led warnings about election interference ahead of the midterm elections. Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly voiced concerns about the Trump administration’s efforts to access voter data from many U.S. states and