Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claims Stanford Law School is 'off limits' for conservatives, but a spokesperson says they'd be honored to host him.
The prediction market platform Kalshi stormed onto the political scene in 2024, when it went toe-to-toe with the Biden administration and won the right to offer contracts on the outcome of elections.
The BBC is seeking to subpoena three members of President Trump’s family as it builds its defense to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. In a Friday court filing, attorneys for the BBC argued that Trump’s children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, as well as his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, “have personal knowledge and likely have...
The Justice Department described the Iranian missile threat incident that led President Trump to secretly switch planes last month as an “assassination attempt” in a new court filing on Friday. U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer mentioned the incident in an emergency appeal to Supreme Court asking it to overturn a lower court’s block on the...
Republican strategist Karl Rove on Friday criticized President Trump’s insistence that the U.S. economy is thriving despite rising prices amid the Iran war. Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Friday that the “economy was doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street." Rove told Fox News's Gillian Turner that the president should “start...
A bipartisan pair of senators launched an investigation this week into the gaming platform Roblox, citing concerns about explicit content and its alleged "connection to real world child abuse." Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter Wednesday informing Roblox CEO David Baszucki that the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday became the latest elected Republican to declare he would not support Rep. Cory Mills's (R) reelection bid in Florida's 7th Congressional District. “I have not endorsed Cory Mills, and I do not support Cory Mills,” the Florida governor said when asked during a Friday press conference, captured by C-SPAN...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Amid reports of low morale, USS Abraham Lincoln returning home, Navy says Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao announced on Friday that the USS Abraham Lincoln is returning to the U.S. as the aircraft carrier’s long deployment...
Reports of low morale and poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln has prompted new scrutiny from Congress and the families of those serving during the Iran War, scrutiny unlikely to end even as the administration said the aircraft carrier was returning home on Friday. The return caps a grueling, more than 265-day deployment aboard...
A Massachusetts-based federal judge on Friday lifted her stay in a case brought by Somali holders of temporary protected status (TPS), clearing the way for the Trump administration to begin deporting them. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs lifts an administrative stay she issued after the Supreme Court decided in a related case...
The Pentagon is piloting a reimbursement program for eligible service members looking to freeze their eggs or sperm, according to a notice published Thursday in the Federal Register. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2025 required the implementation of the initiative, which will cover up to $500 in annual costs for sperm cryopreservation services and...
Attorneys for the Olympian previously accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool filed a motion Thursday to bar prosecutors from bringing further criminal charges against him related to the case, citing fears of “prosecutorial harassment" by President Trump. The legal team for Olympic canoeist David Hearn called for Judge Todd Edelman of the District...
President Trump claimed during remarks on Long Island, N.Y., on Friday that he will make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, despite the fact that Oman and Iran share jurisdiction of the waterway. “Pretty soon, I will be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” Trump said during an address highlighting...
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao announced on Friday that the USS Abraham Lincoln is returning to the U.S. as the aircraft carrier’s long deployment has come under scrutiny over reported harsh conditions the sailors onboard have worked under. “The USS Abraham Lincoln crushed their deployment and will return home soon as part of a planned...
