Most people in Los Angeles County can name the mayor of LA. Fewer can name their county supervisor — the office for which I’m running in 2026. People barely...
With Congress at a stalemate again, lawmakers left Washington for the Easter and Passover holidays and are not set to return until the week of April 13.
You don't have to go very deep into the U.S. Constitution to see the word "citizen" appear. It's first used in Article I, Section 2, where the founding document says to serve in the House of Representatives someone must have been a citizen for seven years.
Iran on Sunday said it would begin treating American college campuses in the Middle East as “legitimate targets” for its military after it said U.S.-Israeli strikes earlier this week hit Isfahan University of Technology and Tehran University of Science and Technology. “The reckless rulers of the White House should know that from now on, all...
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 speech grounds, was premature since the displays never went up in classrooms. The...
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 increasingly found itself at odds with the Pentagon in recent...
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. “President Trump’s idea to send an American hospital ship...
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 paid enough attention to the country's...
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,” an account on X that tracks activity at local pizza joints near the...
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 evacuations as a “prudent” decision based on the current security environment. “The...
President Trump predicted on Monday morning that the Supreme Court will also rule against him when it comes to birthright citizenship, comments that come after the nation’s highest court rejected some of his most sweeping tariffs. “The next thing you know they will rule in favor of China and others, who are making an absolute...
President Trump on Monday will honor “Angel Families” who have lost family members to crimes committed by people in the country illegally. The White House event comes one day before Trump is set to deliver a high-stakes State of the Union address. Watch Monday's event, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. EST, in the video player above.
European Union (EU) leaders said over the weekend that they will not accept an increase in U.S. tariffs in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling against some of President Trump's most sweeping tariffs. “The Commission will always ensure that the interests of the European Union are fully protected. EU companies and exporters must have...
