The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Wednesday it would reopen a 1,000-bed New Jersey detention center after signing a $1 billion contract with a private global lender. ICE will use the Delaney Hall facility in Newark for federal immigration processing. "The location near an international airport streamlines logistics, and helps facilitate the timely...
A federal appeals court upheld a previous ruling that blocked Arizona’s proof of citizenship provision for voter registration. The ruling came from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and upholds a lower court’s ruling that blocked 2022 laws signed by then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R). The court said in its ruling that the laws violated the...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story How RFK Jr. could restrict abortion medication Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to study the safety of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion. Shuran Huang, The...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to rescind memos that directed agencies across the federal government to fire probationary employees, finding they were likely unlawful. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said OPM must notify agencies it did not have the authority to call for the firing of those...
Lawmakers in both parties are expressing skepticism of President Trump’s expected deal to share Ukraine’s mineral wealth, warning it will need a strong buy-in from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a robust security guarantee from the United States. GOP senators are divided over the emerging deal, with some hailing it as a big potential win...
Congressional negotiators racing to avert a government shutdown next month appear to have hit a wall on the question of whether to limit President Trump’s powers to spend the money. On one side of that divide are Democratic appropriators, who are already hammering the White House for refusing to back programs previously funded by Congress —...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr did not address a social media post by President Trump demanding Comcast be forced to pay "vast sums" to the federal government when asked repeatedly about the post on Thursday. While appearing at a media summit hosted by the news outlet Semafor, Carr said he had not seen...
Bret Baier has secured the first one-on-one interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after his meeting with President Trump at the White House, to discuss the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are expressing concern to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that recent layoffs at U.S. health agencies are threatening the modernization of the organ transplant system. The pair of lawmakers asked Kennedy in a Wednesday letter to disclose which staff at the Health...
Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature voted Thursday to remove gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code, sending the first-of-its-kind measure to Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). The bill, first introduced last week, sped through the legislative process despite widespread opposition from Democrats and LGBTQ rights advocates who flooded the statehouse in Des Moines...
China's cyber espionage operations continue to become more aggressive amid the increasing use of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence to help carry out attacks, according to a report published Thursday. CrowdStrike's 2025 Global Threat Report, released Thursday, found China-linked cyber operations surged by 150 percent last year. Attacks targeting the financial services, media, manufacturing and...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began the process of firing hundreds of probationary workers Thursday, the latest mass job cuts within federal agencies, three sources with knowledge of internal operations told The Hill. The cuts, which are said to affect between 560 and 1,830 workers at the agency, were planned for at least...
