President Donald Trump's pick for National Park Service director, Scott Socha, of Delaware North, has withdrawn himself from consideration for the post.
A wave of party switching in West Virginia has reshaped voter rolls, with more than 68,000 voters changing affiliation ahead of the state's 2024 primary.
Senate Republicans propose dangling federal grants to pressure blue states and sanctuary cities into signing cooperation agreements with ICE enforcement.
Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, may proceed with her lawsuit alleging the Trump administration fired her for political reasons, a judge ruled Tuesday. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman came over the Justice Department's objection, and found that Maurene Comey's lawsuit belongs in federal...
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration's policy of detaining almost all those it is seeking to deport, determining they must be given the chance to seek bond amid their pursuit to remain in the country. Figures of those being held in detention have swollen to historic levels under the Trump administration, with the...
Allies of President Trump are upset over a post by former President Obama about the motives of the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. On Sunday, Obama posted on the social media platform X that “although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White...
More than 1,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers have departed amid the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the department said this week. DHS wrote Monday on the social platform X that more than 1,000 TSA officers “have been forced to leave the force” since the shutdown began in mid-February. “Ahead of...
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Tuesday said it was “fascinating” to him that the suspect accused of targeting Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner over the weekend appeared to make “no effort whatsoever to cover his tracks.” Cole Allen, 31, was charged with attempting to assassinate President...
Democrats are winning races — and even redistricting battles — but some in the party worry they’re not yet winning the argument. Join The Hill's Amie Parnes and Editor in Chief Ian Swanson for a discussion Tuesday afternoon on Democrats' messaging and political fallout from the shooting Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Association...
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, is leading both of his potential Republican opponents in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups ahead of the general election, according to a new poll. In the Texas Public Opinion Research survey, conducted in mid-April, likely general election voters in the Lone Star State say they would back...
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcome King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the White House on Tuesday morning. Watch the welcome ceremony live here.
The funding battle over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is front and center on Capitol Hill after Saturday's shooting at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The third assassination attempt on Trump has completely upended the political calculus amid a looming pay freeze for DHS employees. And it has Republicans pushing for the...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is pushing back on a proposal to spend as much as $400 million in taxpayer money to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House, arguing that Congress needs to rein in its deficit spending at a time of historically high national debt. Scott told NBC News on Monday evening that...
Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s exit as Labor secretary last week amid a wave of misconduct allegations is raising questions about the fledgling coalition between Republicans and labor. The next moves from the administration and from Republicans more broadly will determine whether the political alliance and appeal to union workers that boosted President Trump in 2024 has fizzled out, or...
What happened on Saturday was no conspiracy. It was a potential tragedy fueled by a cultural fixation on conspiracy theories and prevented by the quick actions of the Secret Service.
