California homeowners are struggling to find insurance against wildfires and other natural disasters, as the state chases insurance companies away, and as the California Insurance Commissioner fails to hold...
Federal immigration authorities raided a Hyundai electric vehicle (EV) plant in Georgia on Thursday, arresting more than 400 “unlawful aliens” as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. “Today, @ATFAtlanta joined [Homeland Security Investigations], FBI, [Drug Enforcement Agency], [Immigrations and Customs Enforcement], [Georgia State Patrol] and other agencies in a major immigration enforcement...
We don’t mean to completely pooh-pooh all of the talk about the importance of the gerrymandering arms race that has broken out since Texas tried to lasso five more seats for the GOP. But we should pooh-pooh it a little. Midterm elections depend on how districts are drawn, certainly, but not nearly as much as...
Incoming Democrats are poised to advance legislation forcing the Trump administration to release all the federal files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender. Up to now, the focus on Capitol Hill has been on which Republicans might buck President Trump and GOP leaders and endorse a procedural tool, known as a...
The Justice Department (DOJ) sued Boston and its Democratic mayor, Michelle Wu, on Thursday over the city’s sanctuary law, arguing that it is illegal and helps release dangerous criminals who should be deported. “The Boston Police Department was once a cooperative partner with ICE’s immigration enforcement efforts. Throughout 2015, the Boston Police Department honored all...
Apart from short-lived confrontations in the South China Sea, China has not been involved in an extended intensive military conflict for nearly a half century.
The Pentagon said late Thursday that two Venezuelan aircraft flew close to a U.S. Naval vessel in what it called a “highly provocative move.” “Today, two Maduro regime military aircraft flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters. This highly provocative move was designed to interfere with our counter narco-terror operations,” the Defense Department...
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Thursday slammed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as “the biggest threat to the health of the American people.” “Listen, we are in a tragically ironic moment in which the biggest threat to the health of the American people is the secretary of Health and Human...
President Trump will attend the men’s U.S. Open tennis final on Sunday in New York, a White House official told The Hill. Semafor first reported on the president’s trip to Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows for the match, set for 2 p.m. The matchup for the final isn’t yet decided, and no American men...
President Trump on Thursday said “real” jobs numbers will come next year, ahead of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) first jobs report since he fired its leader in response to dismal numbers in July. “They come out tomorrow, but the real numbers that I’m talking about are going to be whatever it is, but will be...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Thursday responded to ProPublica reporting about Trump Cabinet members’ mortgages, saying that “the hypocrisy of the Trump administration is nothing short of staggering.” “Donald Trump has made mortgage fraud accusations his weapon of choice to attack people standing in his way and people standing up to him, like me,” Schiff...
President Trump on Thursday night hosted top tech executives in a one-of-a-kind White House event, during which he asked attendees to say how much their companies were investing in U.S. manufacturing. The president sat beside Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a long table, with first lady Melania Trump on the other side. Microphones and place...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump’s strike on ‘narco-terrorist’ boat legally murky The Trump administration's few details about a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea has fueled questions as to whether it violated maritime law or human...
An appeals court issued a Thursday order halting the dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration's migrant detention site based in the Florida Everglades. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit overturned a lower court’s order that deemed the site a threat to the environment. Judge Barbara Lagoa and...
