Post readers discuss New York AG Letitia James’ aide allegedly ordering staff to target people associated with President Trump — and her Michigan counterpart saying Jews “have a moral...
It’s easy to feel a certain schadenfreude over news of Meta’s $16.7 billion settlement with almost every state attorney general. Sometimes bad things happen to bad corporations. It’s hard not to cheer. For years, Meta has largely gone unchecked as it employed a business model that basically amounted to psychologically manipulating people through Skinnerian principles […]
It’s not often in Washington, D.C. that a special interest group directly contradicts itself, but the Hemp Roundtable did just that. In 2022, the Associated Press exposed how chemists were chemically processing CBD extracted from hemp to produce delta-8 THC, an intoxicating compound. A loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill opened the floodgates to unregulated […]
Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is neck and neck with her main rival in the Oakland special mayoral election, with the race too close to call. The initial tally of the results of the ranked-choice election shows former City Council member Loren Taylor (D) leading with 48.2 percent of the vote, just over 1,000 votes more...
Democrats often distract from the real issue of immigration laws by talking non-stop about immigration, while failing to acknowledge the fact that enforcing immigration laws as written would prevent many murders and crimes committed by illegal aliens.
The Gavel is The Hill's courts newsletter. Sign up by clicking here or adding your email in the box below. The Gavel has broken down the more than 200 lawsuits challenging major Trump administration actions and it found that most of the cases — 72 percent — have been assigned by judges appointed by a Democratic...
The Jan. 6 defendants granted sweeping clemency by President Trump are growing increasingly vexed with his administration because they don’t believe it’s delivering on his campaign promise of payback for their prosecutions. It marks the apparent end of a honeymoon period between the administration and some of Trump’s most ardent supporters, as criticisms that top...
Vice President Vance defended the Trump administration’s move to deport Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, criticizing legal efforts to secure his return to the U.S. In a lengthy post on the social platform X on Tuesday, Vance argued that former President Biden allowed approximately 20 million undocumented immigrants into the country, which he said has...
A word exists for a prison that “functions outside a judicial system” and where “prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.” According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the word for that kind of place is a concentration camp.
It's been 30 years since the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in the United States: Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
In today’s issue: The legal battle over the Trump administration’s efforts — or lack thereof — to return a mistakenly deported Maryland migrant may eventually wind up back before the Supreme Court as President Trump tests the limits of his executive power. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia already reached the high court, but on...
This story is the third in a four-part series. Read part one here and part two here. As the precipitous rise in housing costs over the past decade has put buying a traditional home out of reach for many Americans, a growing number are turning to nontraditional alternatives. Some are repurposing old commercial buildings or...
Democratic contender Nathan Sage, who's the executive director of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, is launching a Senate bid to take on Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) next year in Iowa. Sage made that announcement official on Wednesday; in his campaign launch and an interview with The Hill ahead of his announcement, Sage emphasized fighting for...
Hong Kong's postal service announced that it had halted item mail services by sea and will pause the acceptance of air postal items containing goods bound for the United States starting on April 27. “For sending items to the US, the public in Hong Kong should be prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable fees due...
The Toy Association president and CEO said President Trump’s 145 percent tariffs on China will likely jeopardize the Christmas holiday for children as the world’s two largest economies remain entangled in a trade battle. “No toys are currently being produced in China. And there are reports that major retailers here in the U.S. are starting...
