President Trump’s retribution crusade reached a crescendo Tuesday when the president’s endorsee, Ed Gallrein, prevailed in the GOP primary to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), extending his winning streak against Republicans who have defied him. Massie, a libertarian-leaning lawmaker whose opposition to key Trump priorities has long drawn the president’s ire, is the latest victim of Trump’s revenge campaign after...
Georgia's Republican primary for secretary of state will head to a runoff between Vernon Jones and Tim Fleming after neither candidate secured 50% of the vote on Tuesday.
Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District primary drew multiple candidates vying to represent the nation's most Democratic and Black-majority district.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday defended President Trump's comment that he is not focused on the financial situations of Americans while negotiating with the Iranian government. “He said something that got clipped ... saying, 'I’m not thinking about [the] American people financially,’ but what he really was saying — he did say, is, ‘I'm...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that during the summit in China, President Trump and administration officials will try to convince Chinese President Xi Jinping to take an “active role” in negotiations to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity in Beijing, Rubio...
A majority of Republican voters support policies requiring AI models to undergo independent security testing, according to a new poll released Thursday. The survey, shared first with The Hill from Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), found that 71 percent prefer a mandatory testing process, compared to 17 percent who said AI companies should voluntarily test...
President Trump told Fox News that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to purchase soybeans, energy and jets during the two leaders' bilateral meeting in Beijing on Thursday. According to Fox News, Trump told host Sean Hannity that Xi committed to helping the U.S. with Iran, buy U.S. soybeans, buy more oil and liquified natural gas...
President Trump signaled in his opening remarks at a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday that he's ready to do business with China. The host of business leaders accompanying Trump is just one sign of that. His first full day in Beijing is a busy one with a state banquet following the...
President Trump during his trip to Beijing on Thursday formally invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the White House in September. “Thank you again, President Xi, for this beautiful welcome, and tonight, it is my honor to extend an invitation to you, Madam Peng, to visit us at the White House this September 24...
For a host of candidates running for office up and down the ballot in this year’s midterms, politics is a family business. The race for governor of Maine alone has drawn three candidates with well-known political ties: Angus King III, the son of Sen. Angus King (I-Maine); Hannah Pingree, the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday criticized the Chinese government and its allies, as President Trump visits with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a summit in Beijing. “You name the allies of China, they’re all dirtbags,” Graham, a foreign policy hawk, told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “They’re aligned with the worst people in the...
Chinese security blocked a U.S. Secret Service agent from entering Beijing’s Temple of Heaven with their weapon during President Trump’s bilateral meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday. According to the White House press pool, the entry into the event site was delayed nearly an hour and a half due to an “intense discussion”...
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) is introducing legislation aimed at protecting congressional oversight powers, a year after a scuffle at an immigration detention facility in her home state resulted in criminal charges against her. The measure would “permanently codify the existing right of members of Congress to conduct oversight” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department...
President Trump signaled in his opening remarks at the bilateral meeting in Beijing on Thursday local time that he wants to do business with China and emphasized his friendship with Xi. He boasted about the size of the delegation he brought, which included prominent executives like Apple’s Tim Cook, Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, Nvidia’s...
