Republicans' razor-thin House majority shrinks further as Democrats set to win Texas special election, giving GOP leadership new headaches in Congress.
A conservative advocacy group is crying foul after LinkedIn temporarily removed one of their posts praising ICE agents that the company says was taken down by mistake.
President Trump defended DHS Secretary Kristi Noem amid nationwide immigration protests, praising her leadership while accusing Democrats and “radical left" activists of targeting her.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday it would not follow California’s new law banning its agents from covering their faces during enforcement operations. “To be clear: We will NOT comply with [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban,” DHS said Monday in a post on the social platform X. DHS suggested the masks...
President Trump will meet this week with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to discuss government funding ahead of a potential shutdown, a White House official told The Hill. Punchbowl first reported on the upcoming meeting. The president is set to travel to New York for the United Nations...
A man has been charged with pointing a laser beam at Marine One while President Trump was on board on Saturday, according to a signed affidavit. The affidavit, signed by Secret Service Officer Diego Santiago, alleges that Jacob Samuel Winkler pointed a red laser beam at Santiago, before pointing it in the direction of Marine...
Morgan Murphy, a former top Trump administration official who also served as a top aide to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), is launching a bid for his former boss’s seat next year for Alabama Senate. Tuberville is leaving the Senate to run for governor, creating a vacancy in the deep-red states. Murphy touts himself as a...
Satisfaction with the direction of the country reached its lowest point of President Trump’s second term in office, according to the latest Gallup poll, though views remain broadly more positive than before he took office. Twenty-nine percent of survey respondents say they’re satisfied “with the way things are going in the United States at this...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling on the Trump administration to reopen a Justice Department investigation into Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, following reports that he had accepted thousands of dollars from undercover FBI agents last year. Responding to Trump’s recent call for the Justice Department to escalate investigations of his political opponents, including Sen. Adam Schiff...
Google made the case Monday to a Virginia judge that it should be permitted to hold on to several key portions of its advertising technology ecosystem, just weeks after avoiding a breakup of its online search business. The tech giant is in court yet again, as the Department of Justice (DOJ) argues the company should...
The White House on Monday defended border czar Tom Homan after MSNBC reported he was investigated by the Biden administration for bribery, stressing that President Trump stands by him. “Mr. Homan never took the $50,000 that you're referring to, so you should get your facts straight. Number one,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told...
Democrats are expressing outrage over a reported probe involving White House border czar Tom Homan and an undercover operation last year in which he was recorded taking $50,000. “Did Trump’s DOJ shut down this bribery investigation? Was it Attorney General Bondi or FBI Director Patel? The act was caught on camera. The administration must turn...
King County, Washington is leading a coordinated legal response against the Trump administration's attempts to impose political conditions on federal grants, which has resulted in a preliminary injunction to block the withholding of billions of dollars in housing, transportation and public health grants.
A male juvenile reportedly involved in a massive and “sophisticated” cyberattack on multiple Las Vegas casino properties, including MGM Resorts and Caesars, that cost the companies hundreds of millions of dollars, is in custody, authorities announced late last week.
"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver urged his viewers on Sunday night to cancel any subscriptions to Disney+ after ABC pulled comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air last week over his comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. "Disney needs to stand by Kimmel and his staff," Oliver said on his weekly talk...
Mike Waltz, the newly confirmed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on Monday called on Russia to “urgently stop” violating NATO countries’ airspaces and pushed for de-escalation in the region. In remarks at his first U.N. Security Council briefing, Waltz condemned the Russian fighter jets’ intrusion into Estonian airspace on Friday, just more than a...
Federal Reserve board of governors member Stephen Miran on Monday criticized his fellow central bankers for setting interest rates too high and touted several Trump administration policies he believed justified steep cuts. In his first speech since leaving the White House to join the Fed board, Miran defended his consensus-breaking vote for lower interest rates...
