President Trump’s frustration with media coverage of the war on Iran boiled over Thursday when he alleged that reporting from The New York Times was “seditious” and called CNN “stupid” and “the enemy.” Verbal fusillades against the media are commonplace for Trump, but the unusually intense Thursday attack seemed emblematic of his frustration with a...
The partisan battle over authorizing the Iran War has shifted to one of semantics, as the sides haggle over a contentious deadline created by a Vietnam-era law. On Friday, the conflict hit the 60-day mark — a critical marker under the 1973 War Powers Act — and Democrats are using the milestone to fuel their...
Republican governors in two southern states are calling state lawmakers back for special sessions next week to consider new congressional maps following a landmark Supreme Court decision that narrowed the scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Alabama lawmakers are set to convene in Montgomery starting Monday to discuss potentially moving the state’s May 19...
The Defense Department has estimated that the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran about $4.8 billion in oil revenue, a Pentagon official familiar with the assessment told The Hill late Friday. The blockade, which was instituted more than two weeks ago, is one of the actions President Trump has used to inflict pressure on Iran...
Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) said on Friday that the Trump administration would need to seek congressional approval before renewing military action against Iran, after officials asserted the 60-day war powers clock stopped running when the ceasefire took effect. “The purpose of the War Powers Act was to assert the constitutional responsibility of Congress to declare...
ActBlue is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), arguing that his investigation and a separate lawsuit into the progressive fundraising platform amount to political retaliation for its role in raising money for Democratic candidates and causes. The lawyers representing the platform asked a federal court in Massachusetts on Friday to stop Paxton from pursuing...
The New York Times on Thursday called on a New York courthouse for the release of an alleged suicide note written by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The outlet petitioned the courthouse's judge to unseal the note, which Epstein's cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione said he found in July 2019, one month before Epstein's death. The note...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, is pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for information on whether its former secretary, Kristi Noem, is still living in government housing. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Garcia cited the Wall Street Journal’s reporting last week...
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville tore into the Supreme Court on Friday, accusing the justices of engaging in political favoritism and ethical misconduct. “There is no reason, none, that you should have any respect or any admiration for this pack of people who take money from anybody, don’t report anything, are the only nine people...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story The MAHA movement's wild week The “Make America Healthy Again” movement flexed its muscle this week by successfully pushing a pro-pesticide provision out of the farm bill but lost a chance for higher influence when the Trump administration...
A federal appeals court late Friday blocked the ability of doctors to prescribe the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth and dispensed through the mail. A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Louisiana in a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The court issued a temporary nationwide injunction...
A group of six immigrants in U.S. detention on Thursday sued the Trump administration over its policy barring detained migrants from completing biometric data processes that cause their immigration applications to be denied. The complaint argues that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) created a system that "requires individuals to submit biometrics as part of...
President Trump ordered the Pentagon on Friday to withdraw about 5,000 U.S. service members from Germany amid his public feud with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The redeployment of troops will bring the number of troops roughly to pre-2022 levels and will affect a brigade combat team and potentially other U.S. forces already in Germany, according...
