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UCLA should tell radical faculty they are free to leave

Extremist left-wing professors are attacking UCLA chancellor Julio Frenk for the thoughtcrime of opposing antisemitism and terrorism.

Jon Kyl Leaves a Legacy of Principled Leadership

The former senator treated public service as a duty rather than a platform.

Senate to grill CEOs of Flock and other surveillance camera networks

The heads of top surveillance companies will face a Senate panel Wednesday headed by Sen. Josh Hawley, a leading critic of spy cameras.

Trump refers to Black man from racially offensive 1988 campaign ad while stumping in North Carolina

As President Donald Trump tries to convince voters that Democrats have let crime run amok, he's digging into the country's political past to reference one of the most controversial campaign advertisements that relied heavily on racist tropes.

Polish foreign minister: Russia is attacking all of NATO

KYIV, Ukraine — Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski sat for an interview with me at Poland’s Embassy in Kyiv this week. Sikorski had arrived in Ukraine as Russia was pushing the war closer to his country. Russia has intensified strikes on the Ukrainian side of the Polish border, increasingly targeting the railways, roads, and crossings […]

Pentagon No. 3 frustrates senators in closed-door briefing on Iran war, Trump defense strategy

Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike emerged Thursday from a closed-door briefing frustrated by what they said was a lack of clear answers from Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby on the Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy and the ongoing Iran war. The briefing with the Senate Armed Services Committee started off rocky, with Colby immediately opening...

Watch live: Trump hosts Burgum, group of outdoorsmen at White House Rose Garden

President Trump will host Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, along with more than 100 outdoorsmen, for a White House Rose Garden dinner Thursday evening, a source familiar with the event told The Hill's broadcasting partner, NewsNation. Trump will reportedly speak during the event and sign two executive orders reversing former President Biden-era restrictions on U.S. land....

Senate Democrats, minus Fetterman, urge Hegseth to provide receipt for Iran war costs

All of the Democrats in the Senate — excluding Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman — signed an open letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, pressing him to give Congress a cost breakdown of the war in Iran.  The letter, although largely symbolic, reflects the frustration of many Democrats in Congress over what they perceive as a...

F-16 crashes on training run in Michigan; pilot safely ejects

An F-16 fighter jet crashed and the pilot ejected to safety in northern Michigan on Thursday afternoon, military officials confirmed. The crash, which occurred in Grand Traverse County, was captured in a video circulated by local news outlets showing a large plume of black smoke in the air near residential homes. The Texas Military Department...

Pennsylvania asks CDC for emergency assistance amid RFK Jr. clash over measles

Pennsylvania's health department has started the process of requesting emergency assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help control a deadly and rapidly spreading measles outbreak, according to a letter sent to the CDC from state officials.  But the request for that assistance, known as Epi-Aid, comes on the condition that...

Trump administration gets green light to proceed with homelessness program overhaul

A U.S. appeals court in Boston on Wednesday gave the Trump administration the green light to go forward with a massive overhaul of a homelessness program and its criteria for aid funding. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' three-judge panel halted a Rhode Island-based federal judge's ruling in March that the changes to the...

Massie: GOP leaders found ‘other Republicans’ who would join Hegseth impeachment push

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) argued Wednesday that House GOP leaders sent the lower chamber home early because they found other Republicans in support of his push to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.  “The fact that they didn’t vote on it tells me that they did a whip check, and they probably found that there were...

It’s America’s most important holiday. Did you even know?

The most important national holiday in the U.S. doesn't earn its citizens a day off from work or school. It wasn't formally created until 2004, when Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) quietly inserted it into an omnibus spending bill. Most Americans have no idea when it is celebrated or even what it commemorates. And yet, given...

Fed interest rate hike adds to midterm tremors for GOP

In today's issue: ▪ Fed raises interest rates after three-year pause ▪ House leaves Washington ahead of midterms ▪ Ovechkin’s ties to Putin under scrutiny ▪ Iowa emerging as key battleground The Federal Reserve raised interest rates yesterday for the first time since July 2023, a clear sign that central bank officials remain concerned about...

Trump had to crush Iran instead of making deals. He didn’t — now he pays the price.

Last April, President Trump scolded Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on warfare. Trump told Zelensky, "When you start a war, you got to know you can win." That advice was inapt to begin with — Ukraine didn't start the defensive war in which it is now engaged — but it has aged especially poorly.   Trump started a war with Iran this...

Ocasio-Cortez sees confidence in her White House chances grow

Confidence is growing among some influential Democrats about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) prospects in the 2028 presidential race. The New York Democrat has quickly become one of the party’s most prominent voices, tapping into a surge of populist energy on the left while growing her following as Democrats search for a leader nearly two years after...

House races for exit, avoiding vote on Hegseth impeachment

House lawmakers raced for the exits on Wednesday, trimming their final week in Washington ahead of the midterm elections and kicking a controversial vote to impeach Pete Hegseth into the lame duck session. House GOP leaders scrapped votes scheduled for Thursday, when the resolution to remove the Defense secretary was expected to hit the floor....

El-Sayed narrowly leads Rogers in Michigan Senate race: Poll

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed holds a slight lead over his opponent former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a new poll shows. The Hill/Emerson College Polling survey released Thursday found that El-Sayed garnered 48 percent support, Rogers received 46 percent, 4 percent remained undecided and 2 percent chose another candidate...

How Russian dissidents are pressing for action on Putin in DC

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Moscow-based journalist Dmitry Muratov is careful about what he says and for good reason. He was assaulted in 2022 with red paint laced with acetone, and he’s seen colleagues murdered or forced into exile and his newspaper shut down.  In a rare appearance in Washington, D.C. on Monday, he spoke...

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