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EXCLUSIVE: ICE says El Paso detention facility will stay open under new contractor after $1.2B deal scrapped

ICE detention facility Camp East Montana gets operational upgrade under Secretary Noem's new contract, expanding medical care despite previous closure reports.

Sen. Hyde-Smith set for November clash with Dem foe she once vanquished

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith wins GOP primary to defend her Mississippi Senate seat against Democratic challenger District Attorney Scott Colom in November's general election.

California’s ‘behested payments’: a culture of corruption

“First Partner” Jennifer Siebel Newsom has made a fortune from the non-profit organization she...

MacArthur Park cleanup: Blink and you missed it

LA’s recent cleanup of MacArthur Park provides a textbook case of that familiar government...

Stay classy, NYC — Mozart’s musical treasures are coming to town

“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg” opens at Morgan Library...

Trump says he would be open to another religious leader in Iran

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...

US loses 92,000 jobs in February, falling far short of expected gain

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...

Trump’s 2026 trade agenda mistakes reshuffling deficits for strategy 

Industrial revival requires investing in competitiveness, not reshuffling bilateral trade accounts.   

Live updates: Trump wants new Iranian leadership; war sends gas prices soaring

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...

Trump on Noem $220M ad campaign: ‘I wasn’t thrilled with it’

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...

Whole Hog Politics: Reality bites Noem 

[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...

Trump has been right about oil all along

The war in Iran is once again proving that oil is an essential geopolitical weapon.  

Enough gerrymandering — the people must take back power from two-party rule

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.

Smaller raise? Higher health insurance costs may be to blame

Many employers responded to rising health insurance costs by scaling back pay increases, the New York Fed found.

Netflix acquires Ben Affleck’s AI tech company InterPositive

Ben Affleck joins Netflix as a senior adviser on the deal.

Gonzales drops reelection bid after pressure over affair

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...

Airline threatens to remove, ban passengers who don’t use headphones

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...

Vance indefinitely postpones CBS town hall ‘due to the war,’ network says

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...

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