Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a U.S. citizen.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) appeared to shift his opinion on President Trump’s $5,000 dividends announced earlier this week. In a debate at the Kansas State Fair against Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton, a moderator asked both candidates if they supported the dividends, citing the proposal’s $1.2 trillion cost amid the growing national debt. “I’m going to...
A federal judge determined Friday that the Trump administration broke the law when it attempted to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) workforce, a ruling which coincided with America's hurricane season. In her order, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “unlawfully usurped the authority” of FEMA “to make...
Having run as a transitional figure, Biden succumbed early to the fatal conceit that he could be a transformational leader, akin to Franklin D. Roosevelt or Lyndon B. Johnson.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday went after President-elect Trump for recent comments he made about ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area. “People are literally fleeing,” Newsom told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview that aired on his show Wednesday. “People have lost their lives. Kids lost their schools, families completely torn asunder,...
President Biden will no longer travel to Italy this weekend as fires rage in Los Angeles County, the White House said Wednesday. "After returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today he had met with police, fire and emergency personnel fighting the historic fires raging in the area and approved a Major Disaster declaration...
The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a hearing date for President-elect Trump’s Attorney General pick Pam Bondi. The hearing will take place on Jan. 15 and 16, giving Senators on the panel the chance to question Bondi before voting on her nomination. Trump chose Bondi, Florida’s former attorney general, as his second nominee to lead...
Biden and Harris campaign battleground director Dan Kanninen said Wednesday that President Biden being on the presidential ticket wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the 2024 election. “I think that if he was the top of the ticket, versus Kamala Harris, who did an excellent job performing over 107 days, I don't see how that...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is doubling down on his attacks against tech billionaire Elon Musk over H-1B visas, telling him he’s “dead wrong” about the employment visa. In an op-ed published Wednesday on Fox News, Sanders highlighted the ongoing debate about H-1B visas and other guest worker programs as President-elect Trump prepares to implement his...
President-elect Trump and Republican senators wrestled over the best strategy for moving Trump’s top agenda items, including border security and tax relief, during a two-hour meeting at the Capitol Wednesday night, but Trump largely resisted senators’ pleas to break his agenda up into two big bills. Many Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune...
{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Anxieties jump at Trump's Greenland, Panama Canal military talk President-elect Trump’s refusal to rule out military action to attain his ambitions plans of acquiring the Panama Canal and Greenland has spurred a global debate over...
President-elect Trump on Wednesday said “it doesn’t matter” whether Republicans on Capitol Hill tackle his top priorities on taxes, energy and the border in one package or two as the party tries to nail down its plan for the coming months. “We had a great meeting. There’s great unity. Whether it’s one bill or two...
Dockworkers and longshoremen struck a tentative deal Wednesday night to avoid a damaging strike ahead of a looming January deadline. “This is a win-win agreement that creates ILA jobs, supports American consumers and businesses, and keeps the American economy the key hub of the global marketplace,” the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and United States Maritime...
California Rep. Ami Bera (D) said the fires raging across parts of Los Angeles could be the state’s worst disaster in history. Bera joined NewsNation’s The Hill on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing fire and the briefing the California delegation received from the Office of Emergency Services. “It’s horrific and tragic and our hearts go...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday confirmed a call with President-elect Trump, and he said they did not discuss an emergency application from Trump to block his upcoming sentencing in his New York hush money case. “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding...
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) says Canada, Panama and Greenland should be "honored" by President-elect Trump's ambitions to make them part of the United States. "I think that the people of Panama, I think that the people of Greenland, I think that the people of Canada for that matter should be honored that President Trump wants...
