President Trump said Monday the U.S. is willing to grant asylum to members of the Iranian women's soccer team if Australia forces them to return to their home country, where they may be harmed.
I was the program director of a journalism training center in Washington, D.C., a city with six professional teams and zero sports reporting gigs. That latter part is only a slight exaggeration. You’d think the home of the Capitals, Nationals, Commanders, Wizards, Mystics, and D.C. United would have plentiful opportunities for aspiring sports journalists to […]
The Michigan State Police demanded $6.8 million to process a Freedom of Information Act request from my organization in 2009. A federal inspector general had flagged problems with the agency’s spending of federal homeland security grants, so we asked for documents detailing how much money the police received and how they spent it. We thought it was […]
After disputes over the use of Anthropic’s technology in fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced restrictions on Anthropic’s operations within and outside of the War Department: “In conjunction with the President’s directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic’s technology, I am directing the Department of […]
President Trump said Friday he would be open to having another religious figure to lead Iran following a joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week. When asked by CNN’s Dana Bash in a phone interview if he would be okay with having another religious leader lead the country, Trump...
The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February and the jobless rate rose to 4.4 percent, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The Februrary jobs report showed the U.S. labor market rapidly losing steam last month, defying the expectations of experts. Economists expected the U.S. to have gained roughly 60,000...
Iran and Lebanon were pummeled overnight, as President Trump said he wants to "clean out everything" when it comes to Iranian leadership as the conflict expands in the Middle East. Without naming names, Trump told NBC News that he wants a leader "would do a good job." The president's decision to attack Iran has already...
President Trump on Thursday confirmed his dissatisfaction with a pricy ad campaign that featured Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem. The comments to NBC News come after Trump announced that Noem would soon be replaced as DHS chief. The $220 million advertisement depicted the former South Carolina governor on horseback, encouraging immigrants to...
[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 a.m. ET at TheHill.com as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] The premise of the first year of the second Trump administration was a kind of old-school popular front. A coalition...
The Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing California to proceed with a politically gerrymandered map favoring Democrats may be, as the headlines proclaimed, a victory for Democrats, just as the Texas map gerrymandered in favor of Republicans was considered a victory for Republicans. Taken together, however, they undermine the foundations of American republican democracy.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) dropped his reelection bid on Thursday after coming under pressure from Republican leaders and other GOP colleagues to do so after admitting to an affair with his staffer who later died by suicide. He indicated he would stay in office through the end of his term. “After deep reflection and with...
Listening to music or watching a movie without headphones could now get you removed from a United Airlines flight and potentially permanently banned, according to the airline’s updated passenger guidelines. The airline’s “Contract of Carriage” rules were reportedly updated in late February to include passengers “who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or...
Vice President Vance has postponed a town hall with CBS News that was scheduled for next week “due to the war” in the Middle East, the network announced on Thursday. “A new date and more details to come soon,” a network statement posted on the social platform X said. Vance was supposed to participate in...
