Sen. Steve Daines, Montana Republican, dropped his reelection bid Wednesday with virtually no time to spare before the state's filing deadline, but just enough for his hand-picked successor to enter the race.
A federal appeals court said Wednesday that Elon Musk does not have to testify at this point about his former role with the Department of Government Efficiency, saying it's too soon to compel his testimony.
President Trump touted the successes of his second administration while lambasting Democrats on a plethora of issues during his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. Trump notably broke the record for the longest State of the Union address ever given, clocking in at one hour and forty-seven minutes. He began his addresses by...
President Trump issued several awards during his State of the Union address before Congress on Tuesday evening. The honorees included two military pilots, an Olympic athlete, a Coast Guard petty officer and two National Guard members. The president also noted his continued interest in receiving the Medal of Honor himself. “I’ve always wanted the congressional...
President Trump stormed into the Capitol on Tuesday night to extol the first-year performance of his return to power, bash the Democrats as feckless rivals, and make the case for keeping Republicans in control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. The marathon State of the Union address had all the signature pugnacity of the speech...
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) bashed President Trump's immigration policies and accused the administration of seeking to interfere in the next election in the Democrat's Spanish-language rebuttal to the State of the Union address. The speech from California’s first Latino senator was just as focused on threats facing democracy as the immigrant story in shaping America,...
President Trump said Tuesday night that Iran is developing long-range missiles that can reach U.S. territory. “They've already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America,” the president said during his first State of the Union address of...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Monday lawsuit against New Jersey and its Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D), over a recent executive order that bans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from state property without a judicial warrant. The government wrote that Sherrill is aiming to “intentionally obstruct” federal law enforcement and thwart federal immigration law....
The Pentagon has threatened to cancel Anthropic’s contract by Friday if the company does not agree to the department’s terms for the use of its AI model, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday at the Pentagon amid a dispute over...
The Mexican Embassy in the U.S. said Tuesday the security situation in Mexico has “stabilized,” two days after a prominent cartel leader was killed by the Mexican army. “The security situation has now stabilized following targeted operations in Jalisco,” the embassy wrote on social platform X, referencing the killing of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, or...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) joined several of his House Republican colleagues in calling for Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) to resign over allegations that Gonzales had an affair with one of his congressional staffers, who died after setting herself on fire. “I’m joining Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, and Anna Paulina Luna in calling for Representative Tony...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Thursday said he would attend President Trump’s State of the Union address while other members of his party are skipping it, saying he felt an obligation to do so. Kelly has been embattled with the Trump administration over a video he participated in calling on troops to not carry out...
U.S. military forces boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indo-Pacific Command (IndoPaCom) region on Tuesday — which was tracked from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean. The Pentagon said that U.S. forces boarded “Bertha,” without “incident." The vessel, which was sanctioned by the U.S. government in December 2024 over its role in transporting...
