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4 GOP senators join letter demanding Pentagon inspector general investigation of Ukraine’s Starlink outage

Four Republican senators have signed on to a letter to the Defense Department’s inspector general expressing “grave concern” over Ukraine’s sudden loss of access to intelligence-sharing and high-speed Starlink data, which it needs to intercept Russian drones, and asked him to investigate whether senior Defense officials played a role. “We urgently request an Inspector General...

Musk bankrolls PAC spending big on Paxton in Texas 

Tech mogul Elon Musk poured $158 million into a key super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) Senate run as part of his push to keep Republican majorities in Congress. Musk was the single donor to Texas PAC — a political action committee backing Paxton's run — in the third quarter, according to...

Police investigating shooting at Oregon elementary school

A shooter is dead and two people have been hospitalized after reports of an active shooter incident at a Bend, Ore., elementary school, the Bend Police Department said Thursday. Police have confirmed multiple victims, including children. Their conditions are not known at this time. The incident was reported at Silver Rail Elementary School. Bend Police...

Trump shuts down Pentagon plan for public execution: 5 takeaways

President Trump put an abrupt end on Thursday to questions about whether the Pentagon would really livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. In a Truth Social post, he said the public execution could serve as a deterrent but didn’t want to subject “good and well-meaning”...

CNN legal analyst: Biden-era inquiry into Omar hurts her case against Trump

CNN anchor Jake Tapper questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) should have come forward about any potential issues with her immigration status during the Biden administration rather than face a criminal investigation under President Trump. Federal agents raided Omar's Washington, D.C., home with a court-authorized search warrant Monday as part of a criminal investigation into...

9 former FBI agents sue, saying they were wrongly fired over Mar-a-Lago case

Nine former FBI agents sued the Justice Department on Thursday, alleging they were wrongly fired solely because of their work investigating President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. Attorneys for the agents write that their “fate was sealed by virtue of simply having worked on an investigation into Trump’s wrongdoing,” noting Attorney General Todd Blanche...

Mortgage rates hit the brakes

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Mortgage rates hold steady after monthslong rise Mortgage rates held steady this week, a reprieve after months of increases, according to new data from Freddie Mac. © Ted Shaffrey, Associated Press file The average 30-year fixed...

Trump lashes out at Republicans as Ken Paxton struggles in Texas

President Donald Trump is blaming fellow Republicans as his endorsed candidate, Ken Paxton, appears to be in a fierce struggle for a Senate seat...

The DSA’s war against New York: Letters to the Editor — Oct. 16, 2026 

NYPost readers discuss DSA figures’ fury at ICE after the shooting of a criminal illegal in The Bronx.

Mitch Daniels rebukes JD Vance over free-market retreat

Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said he thinks Vice President JD Vance and other Republicans are wrong to move away from the party’s traditional...

Texas Pro-Lifers Aren’t Buying Talarico’s Tired Democratic Talking Points

Texas pro-lifers should not be impressed by the weak rhetorical olive branch that James Talarico extended to Jodi Hunt and other pro-life Texans.

Michigan School District Set Racial Hiring Quota, Violating Federal Civil Rights Law, Complaint Says

An agreement between the district and teachers’ union explicitly states that schools should hire minorities over more senior white applicants.

I Stand Corrected

My assertion that Katie Zacharia is ‘unquestionably’ a lawyer is, as the old Watergate phrase had it, ‘no longer operative.’

Feds sue to stop California from counting ballots of 20,000 suspected noncitizens

The Justice Department filed a groundbreaking lawsuit Thursday asking a judge to forbid California from counting ballots of roughly 20,000 people the feds believe to be noncitizens, unless the state takes steps to verify they are in fact valid voters.

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