Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to spend up to $2 million on robot “dogs” to assist its agents' operations, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding document. A funding document posted to DHS's Acquisition Planning Forecast System on Thursday said the agency could spend between $1 million and $2 million on...
Two Trump administration officials are calling for an independent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigation into the government's response to the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment — which caused toxic chemicals to spill into the town. In a joint Friday letter, Vice President JD Vance and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asked the EPA’s acting inspector...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) walked back its move Friday to advise its journalists not to refer directly to Al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the U.S. as an act of terrorism — guidance that garnered widespread criticism from political leaders. In an internal memo this week first reported by The Toronto Sun, CBC’s...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions of four Army officers picked for promotion to one-star rank, some of whom have ties to top Army generals the Pentagon chief ousted earlier this year, The Hill has learned. Some of the officers pulled from the list have links to former Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, who...
Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman are neck and neck in a new survey, as voting concludes Tuesday to determine which Republican will be on the ballot in South Carolina's Senate race. The poll, which the Trafalgar Group conducted from Saturday through Monday, found that 47.9 percent of 1,031 respondents backed Graham, whom South...
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee argues that state governments must leverage their regulatory authority to advance affordable clean energy initiatives to counter the Trump administration's federal opposition.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who ran for president in 2016 and is considered a possible future contender for the White House, says the Republican Party has not coalesced around Vice President Vance as its 2028 nominee and needs to have a broader discussion about its direction after President Trump leaves office. Asked by MS NOW’s...
Two individuals have died from measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s Department of Health said Tuesday. Both individuals, who were unvaccinated, lived in Lancaster County. The state health department said in a release it will not identify the deceased to protect their privacy and that of their families. Their deaths marked the first measles-related deaths in...
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.), a centrist Democrat who frequently criticizes his party for catering to its left-wing base, is more popular among Republicans in Pennsylvania than the state’s GOP senator, Dave McCormick, according to a new poll. A New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena University poll of registered voters in Pennsylvania found that 73...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal judge in Massachusetts late Monday to lift a nationwide block on mail-in voting restrictions ahead of the November midterms. The DOJ wrote in a late-night filing that the Supreme Court’s ruling in a separate challenge to President Trump’s executive order “leaves no room for further dispute” in...
Join The Hill's Amie Parnes and Caroline Vakil for a live discussion of tonight’s GOP faceoff in the South Carolina Senate runoff between Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.), who is backed by President Trump, and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). The hosts will also talk about some takeaways from Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's Monday night...
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller on Monday criticized the Treasury Department’s buyback expansion plan, arguing it represents an artificial attempt to interfere in the bond market. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Druckenmiller noted bond yields dipped after the Treasury unveiled the plan on Wednesday but rose back to their previous levels the next day....
Researchers studying nearly 165,000 employees across more than 73,000 U.S. firms found that the satisfaction advantage linked to remote work largely faded after accounting for workplace culture, trust in management, communication, professional development and compensation.
President Trump said on Tuesday that Canada’s French language requirements are not a factor in the escalating trade tensions between Washington and Ottawa, contradicting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. “I would never interfere with Canadians speaking French! In fact, I have never even thought of doing such a stupid thing," Trump wrote on Truth Social....
President Trump said Tuesday that his administration is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, amid the trade war between the U.S. and Canada. “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario...
Canada is expected to unveil retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. on Tuesday, following President Trump’s new threats to escalate the trade war between the two countries. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced “dollar for dollar” retaliation after the Trump administration’s 50 percent tariffs on over $20 billion worth of Canadian goods went into effect on Saturday....
Anti-abortion groups and other conservatives largely applauded the White House announcement that President Trump would nominate health policy aide Dr. Heidi Overton for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, viewing her as their champion for, among other things, bringing an end to medication abortion. But others in the conservative world were less thrilled. Overton is not...
