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Why even the mayor’s not safe in San Francisco

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie just found himself at the center of a quickly-escalating street altercation in the Tenderloin district.

Why doesn’t Mayor Mamdani care about NYCHA affordable housing?

We're starting to wonder if Mayor Zohran Mamdani has any real interest in promoting...

The obvious signs the Iran war is part of larger contest with Russia and China

Critics who call Operation Epic Fury folly or a distraction are missing the point:...

Trump calls on Congress to pass bill aimed at bolstering college sports

President Trump on Friday called on Congress to establish a national framework to stabilize college sports amid court rulings, image and likeness deals and recruiting changes have put the multibillion-dollar collegiate NCAA system under siege.

US military carries out operation against ‘narco-terrorist’ supply complex in Ecuador

The U.S. military carried out a “successful” operation against a “narco-terrorist” supply complex in Ecuador as part of the Trump administration’s push to dismantle drug-trafficking networks in the Western Hemisphere, according to defense officials. At the request of Ecuador, a U.S. military joint force executed the targeted action against a suspected drug-smuggling facility inside Ecuador...

Live updates: Trump wants new Iranian leadership; war sends gas prices soaring

Iran and Lebanon were pummeled overnight, as President Trump said he wants to "clean out everything" when it comes to Iranian leadership as the conflict expands in the Middle East. Without naming names, Trump told NBC News that he wants a leader "would do a good job." The president's decision to attack Iran has already...

Trump on Noem $220M ad campaign: ‘I wasn’t thrilled with it’

President Trump on Thursday confirmed his dissatisfaction with a pricy ad campaign that featured Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem. The comments to NBC News come after Trump announced that Noem would soon be replaced as DHS chief. The $220 million advertisement depicted the former South Carolina governor on horseback, encouraging immigrants to...

Whole Hog Politics: Reality bites Noem 

[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 a.m. ET at TheHill.com as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] The premise of the first year of the second Trump administration was a kind of old-school popular front. A coalition...

Trump has been right about oil all along

The war in Iran is once again proving that oil is an essential geopolitical weapon.  

Enough gerrymandering — the people must take back power from two-party rule

The Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing California to proceed with a politically gerrymandered map favoring Democrats may be, as the headlines proclaimed, a victory for Democrats, just as the Texas map gerrymandered in favor of Republicans was considered a victory for Republicans. Taken together, however, they undermine the foundations of American republican democracy.

Smaller raise? Higher health insurance costs may be to blame

Many employers responded to rising health insurance costs by scaling back pay increases, the New York Fed found.

Netflix acquires Ben Affleck’s AI tech company InterPositive

Ben Affleck joins Netflix as a senior adviser on the deal.

Gonzales drops reelection bid after pressure over affair

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) dropped his reelection bid on Thursday after coming under pressure from Republican leaders and other GOP colleagues to do so after admitting to an affair with his staffer who later died by suicide. He indicated he would stay in office through the end of his term. “After deep reflection and with...

Airline threatens to remove, ban passengers who don’t use headphones

Listening to music or watching a movie without headphones could now get you removed from a United Airlines flight and potentially permanently banned, according to the airline’s updated passenger guidelines. The airline’s “Contract of Carriage” rules were reportedly updated in late February to include passengers “who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or...

Vance indefinitely postpones CBS town hall ‘due to the war,’ network says

Vice President Vance has postponed a town hall with CBS News that was scheduled for next week “due to the war” in the Middle East, the network announced on Thursday. “A new date and more details to come soon,” a network statement posted on the social platform X said. Vance was supposed to participate in...

FBI searches home west of Nancy Guthrie’s house

FBI agents searched a home west of Nancy Guthrie’s house as the investigation entered Day 32.

Austin police release body-cam footage, 911 calls from Sixth Street mass shooting

Austin Police released new information and video about the deadly mass shooting at a bar on West Sixth Street during a news conference Thursday.

Anthropic CEO vows to fight risk designation, insists ‘vast majority’ of customers won’t be affected

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that the company would fight the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation in court, while suggesting the “vast majority” of its customers would be unaffected. The Pentagon confirmed the designation, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last week, in a letter to the AI firm Wednesday, Amodei noted. “As we...

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