Nobody in Washington can seem to make head or tail of Donald Trump’s latest attempt to win over Greenland. The president announced on Saturday that the White House would be sending a “great hospital boat” to Greenland , though exactly who would be responsible for the
Dave Sundberg, who previously helmed the FBI’s Washington Field Office before he was ultimately pushed out after President Trump returned to office, announced on Monday that he’s running to succeed Rep. Steny Hoyer (D) in Maryland’s 5th Congressional District. “I’m running for
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on Monday became the first House Republican to call on Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) to resign over allegations he had an affair with one of his congressional staffers. “@RepTonyGonzales, RESIGN!” Boebert wrote on the social media platform X.
Nearly half of respondents in a new poll say they are most interested in hearing President Trump talk about the economy in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. The Scripps News/Talker Research poll, released Monday, found that 47 percent of respondents are most
President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday is expected to highlight accomplishments made throughout the first year of his second term, with a focus on affordability, election security and immigration enforcement. While this is not Trump’s first speech to Congress
President Trump is rushing to rebuild his tariff wall after the Supreme Court struck down a pillar of his trade agenda by ruling his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify them was unlawful. Ahead of the first State of the Union address of his
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) is vowing to forge ahead with his redistricting push in the Old Line State even as the state Senate has shown no signs of moving forward with a new Democratic gerrymander. “Democracy means we debate. Democracy means we test ideas. Democracy means
The Education Department announced Monday plans to move two more programs to other federal agencies amid President Trump's effort to “break up the federal education bureaucracy.” The department reached interagency agreements with the departments of Health and Human Services
CBS contributor Peter Attia, who was handpicked by Bari Weiss to join the network, is now resigning after his close friendship with predator financier Jeffrey Epstein was made clearer in recent Justice Department files. Attia, a celebrity health and wellness influencer,
A federal court on Monday rejected the latest Republican-led bid to block a new congressional map in Utah that could give Democrats a seat in the red state. A three-judge panel denied a motion for a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the new lines from going into
The European Parliament is pausing the ratification of a trade agreement with the U.S. over Donald Trump’s tariff temper tantrum. The legislative body’s international trade committee was supposed to vote Tuesday on a trade deal capping tariffs on imports from the EU at 15
For much of his second term, the court has handed the president major wins on immigration, executive power and agency authority. But this time, the justices drew a line.
The U.S. military blew up another alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean on Monday, killing three “narco-terrorists” in the operation, it said. The vessel was operated by a designated terrorist organization, was transiting along a “known narco-trafficking” routes and was
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday that Principal Deputy Director Ralph Abraham, the former Louisiana surgeon general, has resigned from his position after less than three months because of "unforeseen family obligations." His departure comes
Investigators are looking into the views regarding Jeffrey Epstein of the man fatally shot by law enforcement on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property early Sunday morning, a source briefed on the investigation confirmed to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network. While not a
The U.S. women’s hockey team has declined an invitation to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address after the president was caught on video whining about having to invite them in the first place. A spokesperson for the U.S. women’s hockey team—which earned a Gold Medal
Sanders said that “we” should have a degree of control over what the tech CEOs are building. And that sounds nice, but let’s be clear on something — who is “we”?
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) are expected to hear from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) whistleblower at a public forum on Monday. The Democrats say the former ICE employee will for the first time publicly "discuss new
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is bringing in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei into the Pentagon on Tuesday in an attempt to strong-arm him into lifting restrictions on the Pentagon using its Claude AI program for mass surveillance and unmanned weapons systems. Claude has been the
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) must address the allegations that he had an affair with one of his congressional staffers, who died last year after setting herself on fire, but added that it is “too early to prejudge" the situation. “I
The U.S. signed onto a non-binding declaration Saturday with dozens of other countries following India’s AI Impact Summit, committing to a “shared global vision” on the technology. It was one of 89 countries and organizations to sign the document, which laid out seven key
Congress is considering legislation to ensure that air traffic controllers, TSA officers, and CBP agents are paid during government shutdowns, in order to prevent the chaos and economic harm caused by the previous shutdown.
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019. Five days later, federal authorities told New York detectives to “stand down” in their investigations into the child sex trafficker. Recently released documents from the Justice Department’s Epstein files reveal a new chronology of
Former U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson was arrested Monday as he faces scrutiny over files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, multiple outlets have reported. London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement obtained by both the BBC and the Financial
If the U.S. does strike Iran, does that suggest a 21st-century Sarajevo and a prelude to a wider war?
Senate Democrats introduced legislation Monday requiring the Trump administration to refund up to $175 billion collected through tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled were invalid. The bill would require the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to pay refunds of
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here. 🚨Plus: Americans in Mexico urged to shelter in place {beacon} It’s Monday. I have never been more ready for a winter to end. The groundhog sure wasn’t joking around this year. In today's issue: Patel’s Olympic
Ohio has taken the lead in investigating its own agents' use of deadly force by using an independent, competent, complete, and transparent process, which has helped to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the public.
The Democratic National Committee’s secret report on why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election has reportedly found that the Biden administration’s approach to Israel’s massacre in Gaza cost her key votes . DNC personnel who worked on the report met with the pro-Palestinian IMEU
The Supreme Court will consider a bid from oil companies to toss out a locality’s suit blaming them for climate change. The justices decided to take up a request from ExxonMobil and Suncor to toss a suit brought against them by the city and county of Boulder, Colo. Their
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new proposal Monday for flexible drug approval pathway treatments addressing ultrarare diseases. The FDA unveiled draft guidance on a proposed regulatory pathway for individualized therapies, treatments for rare conditions that
Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu are two young women at the top of their respective sports, both children of Chinese immigrants, who have been used as pawns in the US-China rivalry, with Gu facing criticism for taking money from the Chinese government to compete for China and Liu being
A new study conducted by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis researchers found that a single blood test could predict when someone is likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. The study, published last week in Nature Medicine, determined that a test to find the
Surprise, surprise: Homeland Security Kristi Noem completely made up that far-fetched story about deporting a cannibal, multiple federal law enforcement officials told The Intercept . Speaking to Fox News’s Jesse Watters in June, Noem recounted a terrible tale she claimed to
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos brushed aside a demand by President Trump that the company fire former Democratic diplomat Susan Rice from its board. Sarandos was discussing Netflix's tentative deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's sprawling movie and television studio, a potential $70
Newly reported components of the Epstein files reveal that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was much more involved with Jeffrey Epstein than he had previously let on. Last year, in an interview on t he New York Post ’s Pod Force One podcast, Lutnick claimed he cut off all
On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy’s appeal against a lawsuit attempting to hold them liable for their contributions to climate change. The suit, initially brought by the city of Boulder, Colorado, and Boulder County, argued that Exxon’s
Gov. Greg Abbott urged Texans to stay alert for federal travel warnings from the U.S. Department of State amid the ongoing chaos in Mexico following Sunday’s killing of infamous drug lord Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes, of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Without a complete record of the Trump years, history will be written by those empowered by Trump.
The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday in favor of a Louisiana law that says the Ten Commandments must be displayed in every public school classroom. The appeals court said a preliminary lower court injunction against the law, which was challenged on free
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday at the Pentagon as the company continues discussions with the department around the terms of use of its AI model Claude, a Pentagon official confirmed to The Hill on Monday. The AI firm has
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen is turning down an offer from President Trump, who has openly sought to acquire the island from Denmark, to send a Navy hospital ship to his country. “It’s going to be a no thank you from here,” Nielsen wrote on Facebook.
The Supreme Court’s tariff decision creates two revenue problems for President Donald Trump. The more obvious one has commanded most of the attention: Trump has to give back more than $175 billion in revenue already collected through the insta-tariffs he imposed, illegally,
Almost seven in 10 Americans say that President Trump is focusing on the wrong problems in the U.S., according to a new poll released ahead of his State of the Union address on Tuesday. In the CNN poll, published Monday, 68 percent of respondents said that the president "hasn't
When the Industrial Revolution came to the United States more than a century ago, it promised unprecedented prosperity for the American people. The revolution delivered. But it involved a Faustian bargain.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jokingly said any surge in takeout deliveries to the Pentagon — a phenomenon that has accurately predicted the start of major geopolitical events — could be him ordering pizza “just to throw everybody off.” Asked about the “Pentagon Pizza Report,”
The State Department has ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel from the U.S. embassy in Beirut, as President Trump has directed a major military buildup in the region for potential strikes against Iran. A State Department official confirmed to The Hill the mandatory
The state of the union under Trump is in disrepair and disarray.
The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him. Austin Tucker Martin of Moore County,
