This week, the largest British trade delegation ever to land on American soil, with leaders representing 230 companies, touches down in Los Angeles for “Greater Together LA,” a summit dedicated to growing trade and investment with America. ...
Sen. Bill Cassidy said his 2021 vote to convict President Trump on a House impeachment charge of inciting the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol may have ended his political career, but he has no regrets.
The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the management of a quarter-billion acres of public lands on Monday, as the administration pushes ahead with more mining and drilling while reversing conservation plans.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Monday opened an investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over its alleged funding of extremist groups it claimed to oppose. Last month, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., indicted the SPLC on six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is urging his Senate Republican colleagues to delay action on a budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029, in part because he said a proposal to spend $1 billion on the White House ballroom is “a major policy problem.” He threatened to vote no on the budget reconciliation...
President Trump on Sunday congratulated Rory McIlroy for winning the 90th Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. McIlroy won the tournament Sunday, donning the tournament's signature green jacket for the second year in a row. "Congratulations to Rory McIlroy on another Great Championship, The Masters! He performed tremendously under intense pressure,...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking into Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who has recently faced sexual assault allegations, over allegations of hiring a nanny illegally. In a statement to The Hill’s broadcast partner NewsNation, a spokesperson for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it “has been collecting information on the allegations involving...
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said Sunday it will begin blockading Iranian ports at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, 5:30 p.m. in Iran, following posts earlier in the day from President Trump directing the U.S. military to "clean out" the Strait of Hormuz. The move follows 21 hours of unproductive peace talks in Pakistan on Saturday,...
Michael Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., said Sunday that there could be a “potential” for “continued talks” with Iran about the U.S.-Israeli conflict against the country after Vice President Vance said no progress was made in the direction of a peace agreement in recent negotiations. “When you said the talks are still going...
Lawmakers are set to return to Washington this week as questions over future pay for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees — including Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers — loom over efforts to end the partial shutdown. The impasse follows a last-minute split before the Easter recess, when Senate Republicans advanced a measure to fund most of...
In one of Europe's most consequential elections of the year, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded to the party led by Péter Magyar, ending his run as Hungary's leader after more than 16 years. With 60 percent of the votes counted, Magyar's Tisza Party had more than 52 percent of the vote compared with Orbán’s...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Sunday that he didn’t understand the “logic” behind President Trump’s recent announcement that the U.S. military would begin blockading ships looking to enter the Strait of Hormuz. “We know we've got $4-a-gallon gasoline. We know that 25 percent of the world's natural gas goes through the strait. We know a...
President Trump said Sunday that the prices of oil and gas could drop, stay even or go “maybe a little higher” by this year’s midterm elections in comments that follow his announcement that the U.S. military would start blockading ships looking to enter the Strait of Hormuz. “So, do you believe the price of oil...
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.) said Sunday that the U.S. has not “won” the war with Iran yet, despite President Trump saying otherwise on Saturday. “We will not have won until we have completely defanged the Iranian regime. … To me, finishing the job is to make sure that Iran can never produce a nuclear...
After his vice president departed Pakistan without an agreement to end hostilities with Iran, President Trump’s next steps are uncertain, as 10 days remain in the ceasefire between the two sides. Speaking to reporters in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Sunday, Vice President Vance said that while talks with Iranian officials were “substantive,” the...
