The expected — and even hoped for — explosion between President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani turned out to be a festival of mutual admiration.
Justice is elusive for many impacted by the deadly realities of a multi-billion dollar industry: human trafficking. A KXAN investigation reveals while Texas is a leader in legislation to stop it, few people actually face trafficking charges. We uncover difficulties Texas prosecutors face in dismantling modern-day slavery and what it means for those seeking accountability.
State Department officials on Saturday aggressively pushed back on claims shared by some senators that President Trump's 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine originated from Russia and is not the administration's position. Earlier on Saturday, PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin reported comments from Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) where the lawmakers claimed...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republican leaders will brief reporters Tuesday morning as the government shutdown entered its 21st day. Johnson, in frustration, has signaled that he will not recall lawmakers back to Washington for votes until the government reopens. Senate Democrats on Monday blocked the GOP-led continuing resolution (CR) for the 11th time....
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is ramping up its spending in the upcoming off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as polls tighten ahead of Election Day next month. On Tuesday, the committee announced it was investing an additional $500,000 into get-out-the-vote operations in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as the upcoming consequential...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called the video President Trump shared that was generated with artificial intelligence (AI) depicting himself dropping what appeared to be human waste on “No Kings” protesters “deeply unserious." “Well, that video is deeply unserious, deeply unpresidential, and deeply un-American," Jeffries said late Monday in an interview on CNN’s “Erin...
The government shutdown marks three full weeks on Tuesday, with no endgame clear, but another vote set for Wednesday in the Senate on the House-passed funding bill. Meanwhile, the pressure is rising. Increased delays at major airports are starting to make lawmakers squirm, after a tough weekend. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday there...
President Trump’s job approval ticked up in recent polling, even as the Republican Party continues to shoulder blame for the ongoing government shutdown — which entered its 21st day on Tuesday. The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, which closed on Monday, shows 42 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s performance in office, up two points from a...
Given Rubio’s direct role in legislating USAID’s budget and programs, his mockery suggests that either he did not take his previous role seriously, or he has gone off the rails to maintain his standing in this administration.
President Trump’s move to release expelled former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from prison might be the most divisive use of his clemency and pardon powers since he granted full pardons to Jan. 6 rioters. Santos’s attorney Joseph Murray credited a number of MAGA movement stars in the House for helping him secure the grant of clemency: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Rep. Lauren...
Democrats in Congress called on President Trump to withdraw his nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) after a new report exposed text messages in which the nominee purportedly denounced the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and admitted to having a “Nazi streak in me from time to time.” Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.)...
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) furloughed more than three-quarters of its staff Monday as the government nears its fourth week of a shutdown. A Department of Energy spokesperson told The Hill that 1,400 NNSA employees will be furloughed by the end of Monday, leaving fewer than 400 working at the agency, which is in...
Former President Biden on Monday finished a round of radiation therapy to treat his aggressive former of prostate cancer, according to a Biden spokesperson. The course lasted several weeks, and the former president is “doing well,” the spokesperson told The Hill’s sister network, NewsNation. She did not comment on whether Biden’s medical team thinks he...
Former Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) will not be required to pay any additional fines or restitution related to his criminal conviction, according to his clemency order, which was made public on Monday. Santos was released from prison Friday after President Trump announced that he signed a sentence commutation for the former lawmaker, who reported to...
