ICE hasn't received much operational guidance from Congress since its creation, a break with lawmaker scrutiny over its operations under the Trump administration.
The leaders of the world’s two superpowers, President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, are set to meet in April. China and others hope to use the long-awaited summit as leverage and are calling on the United States to cancel arms sales to Taiwan. Trump should stick to his guns and hold firm to U.S. commitments […]
NYC residents face grocery costs of $400 to $500 monthly as Polymarket opens free grocery pop-up in West Village, highlighting the city's affordability crisis.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) clashed with a reporter from LindellTV on Wednesday after she asked the congresswoman about a $9 billion fraud scandal in Minnesota. The reporter walked across the Capitol grounds with Omar for the second day in a row, pressing the Minnesota representative about a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing where...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care The Big Story The final deadline for ACA enrollment arrives Jan. 15 marks the last day that most people will be able to enroll in Affordable Care Act Marketplace plans, a final deadline that Congress has missed in its fight over the enhanced...
Many Republicans are flatly rejecting President Trump’s proposal for a one-year 10-percent cap on credit card interest rates, warning that it will be unsustainable in the long run. Trump’s proposal echoes a long-standing push by progressive Democrats and a few conservative firebrands on Capitol Hill to implement credit card interest rate caps, which would limit...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Thursday that she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump during their meeting at the White House. “I presented the president of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado told reporters in Washington. Machado said she told Trump that 200 years ago...
The Commission of Fine Arts postponed a review Thursday of President Trump's White House ballroom, as the president has not appointed new members to replace those he fired in October. Arts commissioners were meant to meet Thursday for an "information presentation" about construction on the ballroom, The New York Times reported. The review was pushed...
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) has been sued by the ex-wife of a former congressional aide who is accusing the onetime Arizona senator of breaking up her 14-year marriage through “intentional and malicious interference,” according to a lawsuit filed in Moore County, N.C. The plaintiff, Heather Ammel, is accusing Sinema of seducing her ex-husband, who...
Senators are scrambling to find a way forward on key cryptocurrency legislation after the Senate Banking Committee postponed a highly anticipated markup following the loss of a major industry player’s support. Late Wednesday, Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) announced he was delaying Thursday morning’s markup of the crypto market structure bill. The Senate markup...
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Thursday claimed Minnesota state officials are staging "an insurgency against the federal government" as they push back on expanding federal immigration operations in Minneapolis. Miller appeared on "The Charlie Kirk Show" on Real America's Voice and was asked if the federal government was looking at possible...
The Trump administration during court proceedings earlier this week apologized for deporting a student attempting to fly home for Thanksgiving break last year. Babson College student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was detained on Nov. 20 at Boston Logan International Airport before boarding a flight to surprise her family in Texas for the holiday. Lopez Belloza,...
President Trump met with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Wednesday at Trump’s request to discuss the hold that the president put on the $16 billion Gateway tunnel project linking New York City and New Jersey. Schumer emphasized to Trump the urgent need to promptly release his hold on the major project, which has...
The House Democratic Women's Caucus (DWC) commended the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for lifting the black box warning on estrogen-based products for hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In November, Kennedy announced that the FDA would be removing the black box warning from estrogen-based HRT...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded Thursday to accusations from President Trump that Ukraine was stalling a peace deal in the country’s ongoing war with Russia, saying his country will “never be a stumbling block for peace.” “Ukraine has never been and will never be a stumbling block to peace,” Zelensky posted on the social platform...
A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion released Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The 15-page opinion concluded that a 1927 law, which made it illegal to use the Postal Service to mail concealable firearms, such as pistols...
