Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon will not be running for re-election and will retire in 2026, multiple outlets reported on Friday. His district, which includes Omaha, was won by former Vice President Harris in the 2024 election and presents an opportunity for Democrats to pick up the "blue dot" district Bacon has held since 2016....
Former President Biden visited the Minnesota Capitol to pay his respects to former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were killed in their homes during a “politically motivated” attack earlier this month. Biden, a devout Catholic, made the sign of the cross and knelt to honor the victims of the attack....
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) is selling his Montana mansion on Flathead Lake for $10.25 million. According to the listing agent Connery & Co., the property has 7 acres with 2,400 feet of protected shoreline. It’s also comprised of the holy trinity for hosting — a main house, a guest house and a guest cabin. The...
Iran “showed the world that the Israeli regime had NO Choice but to RUN to 'Daddy' to avoid being flattened out by our missiles," wrote Seyeb Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Foreign Minister, on X. This comes amid a back and forth between Iran and the U.S. after the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei spoke for the first...
The Senate blocked an effort Friday to prevent President Trump from taking future military action against Iran without authorization from Congress, less than a week after he directed strikes aimed at the country's nuclear capabilities. Senators voted 47-53 largely along party lines against the war powers resolution. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the lone GOP...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Friday criticized the Supreme Court ruling that sided with parents who seek to opt out their children from reading LGBTQ books in school, calling its implications "breathtaking." "If you can opt out of mandatory classroom readings because it offends your religious objections, you can do it because it offends your...
The Super Bowl performer detained after waving a flag reading “Sudan" and "Gaza” during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show in February was arrested Thursday. Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, a 41-year-old man from New Orleans, surrendered himself to the Louisiana state police on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by interruption of a lawful assembly,...
The top diplomats from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda urged President Trump to stay committed to enforcing a peace agreement between the two countries signed Friday in Washington. Trump called the peace agreement, which aims to halt three decades of war, a “tremendous breakthrough,” as the foreign ministers from Congo and Rwanda were...
A group of five House Republicans says it will vote against the GOP's tax and spending bill over provisions in the Senate version that would mandate the sale of land owned by the federal government. “We support the OB3 passed by the House and generally accept changes to the bill that may be made by...
The White House on Friday released a video with testimonials from workers about the benefits of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” as it seeks to ramp up pressure on Republicans ahead of planned Senate votes this weekend. In a video first shared with The Hill, eight people who attended Trump’s event at the White House...
