House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) said she would support funding agencies under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that don't deal with immigration enforcement while lawmakers negotiate reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement
By far the most widely read piece I’ve written in my time at The New Republic is this one , which I wrote right after the 2024 election and headlined “Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?” My answer to that question was the media—specifically, that an avowedly
Section 401 under the Clean Water Act should serve as a safeguard, not a procedural chokepoint.
After releasing five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from immigration detention, the Department of Homeland Security is now trying to deport his family as fast as possible. The agency filed a motion Wednesday to end asylum claims and expedite deportation proceedings for Liam’s
Progressive Analilia Mejia is on the verge of a huge upset win in a special election in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district to replace Mikie Sherill, elected governor of the state last year. Meijia, who helped run Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, is leading Tom
President Trump shared a video late Thursday that includes a brief clip of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted as apes. The video was immediately criticized by Democrats as racist, while the White House said it was from a meme related to "The
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait have reached heights unseen since the end of the Cold War.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel will speak with reporters Friday morning. The Justice Department officials, along with U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, are expected to give a joint announcement. The press conference was scheduled
President Trump is holding hostage billions of dollars in funding for a New York infrastructure project, and won’t release it unless he gets New York’s Penn Station and Washington, D.C.’s Dulles International Airport named after him. The Hudson Tunnel project is a plan to
It is easy to imagine his relative lack of a coherent ideology could have been a positive feature.
The nation’s top spy agency is already prepping for election season. The FBI called on officials from all 50 states to attend a briefing on midterm election “preparations,” reported Crooked Media’s Matt Berg . The meeting is expected to take place in late February, though
President Donald Trump shared a wildly racist video of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes during a late-night posting spree on Truth Social. In yet another erosion of America’s and Trump’s authority on the world stage, the president
TMZ founder Harvey Levin on Thursday offered new details about the purported ransom note his outlet received in connection with the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson, Ariz., area home, describing it as a “carefully crafted letter” that was difficult to
Credibility now rests on coherence across institutions and consistency over time, not on episodic displays of volatility.
Mangione was not due in state court until May, but he and prosecutors were summoned by a judge.
President Trump told Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) last month he would drop his hold on more than $16 billion in funding for the Gateway tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey if Schumer agreed to rename Penn Station and Washington Dulles
Funding negotiations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have hit a roadblock as Republicans have largely dismissed Democrats‘ demands for reform within the agency. The Senate and House are out of session, as both chambers stare down a possible funding lapse at the
Donald Trump must focus on pocketbook issues and the economy in order to avoid losing the House in the midterms, as House Democrats are already threatening to impeach Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem and Trump himself if he doesn't.
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Here are three initiatives that would resonate: finish the border wall, root out fraud in our welfare programs, and require voter IDs nationwide.
Camron Guthrie, the brother of “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie’s brother, made a direct plea on Thursday to the person who may have abducted their 84-year-old mother, Nancy, urging the potential kidnapper to contact the family as the search stretches into a 6th day.
A sovereign Puerto Rico can become a stable, democratic, and economically sustainable partner to the U.S.
T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. The White House can’t
Apart from reining in the nuclear program, Washington’s other demands are exactly what Iran is not willing to discuss.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Democrat, has announced his candidacy for Florida's U.S. Senate seat, challenging Trump-endorsed incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody, and has raised $1.7 million in one day, setting a new state record.
Andrew will temporarily move to Wood Farm once renovations at Marsh Farm are completed.
Plus: New Jersey stunner, Trump unveils TrumpRx site and Olympics get underway
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On Monday, the Trump administration suffered its fifth consecutive courtroom defeat in its war on offshore wind. All of these cases stem from an order in December in which the Interior Department claimed that a classified Defense Department report had deemed offshore wind a
Last weekend, I went to my hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia, and I attended Sunday morning services at my mother’s old church, St. Thomas à Becket Episcopal Church. I hadn’t visited in a few years, and the pastor, Michael Delk, was new to me. I found his sermon to be
For many Americans, chips and guacamole are as much a part of Super Bowl Sunday as the game itself. More avocados are sold for the big game than at any other time of year. This wasn’t always the case. Americans eat almost 10 times as much guacamole during the Super Bowl as we
Early last November, as Alvaro Luna Hernandez, age 73, awoke from uneasy sleep, numbness radiated from his hands and feet, and he realized he could no longer walk. He tried hoisting himself up within the confines of his six-by-eight-foot solitary prison cell, and fell to the
Senators in both parties now expect funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to lapse at the end of next week, as negotiations over Democratic demands for restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CPB) fizzle with
Bipartisan farming advocates are concerned the industry could "collapse" in the near future, with the combination of a downturn cycle and the policies of the Trump administration putting the sector in a precarious position. Former leaders in the industry warned House and
Democrats aren’t lining up to defend former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the pair face scrutiny over the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. This week, the Clintons agreed to appear before the House Oversight and Government
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lost her temper with a reporter who asked if Donald Trump intends to flood polling places with ICE agents during the midterms. She called the question “silly” and “hypothetical” and “disingenuous,” even though Steve Bannon, who’s
The SAVE America Act, up for a vote next week in the House, has been a rare rallying point for a divided GOP.
A Maryland man whom authorities arrested last month has been accused of attempting to murder Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, according to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network. Arlington General District Court records show that Colin Demarco was
The U.S. military struck another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific Thursday. U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) shared a 12-second video of the strike to social platform X. The footage shows the vessel moving, before being struck by a “lethal kinetic strike”
New documents released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) reveal that a number of European officials had ties to Jeffrey Epstein, even after he was a convicted sex offender. Peter Mandelson, the former U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. who was sacked by Prime Minister Keir Starmer
The Trump administration's promised direct-to-consumer drug platform TrumpRx has officially gone live, with President Trump on Thursday calling it "one of the most transformative health care initiatives of all time." The website TrumpRx.gov currently features a collection of 43
Former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) is locked in a tight race with progressive candidate Analilia Mejia in the primary for New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D) old seat in the House. Decision Desk HQ had called the race for Malinowski around 8:50 p.m. ET, but retracted the call
As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, the battle off the field for advertisers to win over 120 million-plus viewers will be just as heated as the rivalry on the field.
The investigations include reviews of hiring, interior immigration enforcement and expedited removal of individuals by ICE and CBP.
The Washington Nationals gave a shoutout to Washington Post reporters, a day after the newspaper announced plans to shut down its sports department as part of company-wide cuts. “Journalists from The Washington Post have chronicled the biggest and most important moments in our
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning law enforcement agencies across the U.S. about an uptick in people using poisons, such as cyanide, to kill or harm their domestic partners. There were 17 documented instances of people using chemical or biological toxins
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump lets New START lapse President Trump will let a treaty to limit nuclear weapons for the U.S. and Russia expire on Thursday, he confirmed in a
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump cements rule making it easier to fire feds The Trump administration on Thursday finalized a rule that gives it the power to more easily fire an estimated
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) defended Haitians under temporary protected status (TPS) who reside in his state, three days after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from revoking such status from hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Caribbean country. “If they