A convicted MS-13 killer known as "La Bruja" or "the witch" is free in California after a federal judge ruled ICE held him without a required bond hearing for five months.
Sen. Darline Graham is squaring off against Rep. Ralph Norman for the GOP nod in the South Carolina Senate race. The pair advanced to the runoff earlier this month after neither candidate garnered more than half the vote in the crowded primary field. Graham, who notched President Trump's support, led Norman by 8 percentage points...
President Trump's pick to succeed term-limited Gov. Kevin Stitt in Oklahoma is duking it out in a Tuesday GOP runoff for the party's nod. Mike Mazzei, a former state senator and state budget secretary, is facing off against state Attorney General Gentner Drummond. Trump has called Drummond a "fake Republican," ripping the candidate for not...
Voters in Georgia’s 13th Congressional District are at the polls Tuesday for a special election to fill late Rep. David Scott’s (D) seat through the rest of the year. Scott's daughter, Marcye Scott, and Everton Blair, a former Gwinnett County board of education member, advanced from the runoff after no candidate secured more than half...
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced Monday it will phase out its new Gold+ private airport screening program, opting instead to optimize its existing Screening Partnership Program (SPP). TSA unveiled the change as part of its Horizon 25 Strategy, named in honor of the agency’s 25th anniversary. The strategy will home in on modernizing TSA...
Tuesday's South Carolina Republican Senate runoff election between Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman will test President Trump's endorsement power. MAGA Inc., a super PAC that backs Trump, has invested in Graham's election, and Trump touted an Oval Office meeting with the senator Monday night. Norman trailed Graham in the state primary two weeks...
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced visit to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, CBS News reported. Flight-trackers spotted a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport plane flying from Riga, Latvia to Moscow on Tuesday. The CIA and the White House did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for...
A Wisconsin state prosecutor declined to charge technology billionaire Elon Musk with election bribery for his $1 million check handouts to voters during the state's Supreme Court election last year. In a letter shared Tuesday with The Hill, La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke (D) said his office decided against pressing charges since, in...
Pakistan and Iran on Tuesday announced that "significant progress" has been made toward ending the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, according to Pakistan's interior minister, Reuters reported. Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan's army chief, met with Iranian officials in Tehran about measures to prevent the conflict from growing and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which...
Dolly Parton — a country music songwriting legend and philanthropist who captured and united fans across the generational and political spectrum — has died. The "9 to 5" star "died peacefully" at 80 on Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn., her publicity team announced. "A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly...
The state of Florida wants to roll back a requirement that public and private school children receive four vaccines before enrolling. A proposed rule from the state's Health Department would allow students to attend school and enroll in daycare without first receiving hepatitis B, varicella (chickenpox), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. ...
Is Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed distancing himself from controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker? That’s the headline, but it’s not quite true.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she believes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) will give a boost to her reelection campaign. “I think he’ll be helpful,” Hochul said Monday after Politico asked about the chance of the New York City mayor stumping for her. In a recent poll, Hochul led Republican Bruce...
