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AOC voices support for anti-ICE shutdown, declines to participate

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., voiced support for a nationwide "shutdown" anti-ICE protest set to take place on Friday but said her congressional office will remain open.

Sen. Tillis: ‘Get the amateurs out of the Oval Office’ | The Conversation

Sen. Tillis: 'Get the amateurs out of the Oval Office' | The Conversation lead...

Saving the Senate from the SAVE Act

The provisions it mandates to weed out illegal aliens from voting could very well...

Higher House Prices?

We need to break the perception that a primary residence is an investment vehicle.

Where Trump stands on the border and immigration

WHERE TRUMP STANDS ON THE BORDER AND IMMIGRATION. As the Battle of Minneapolis (possibly) enters a new stage, there is a just-released poll from Fox News that sheds light on the public’s view of the fight over the enforcement of federal immigration law. First, the question of approval of President Donald Trump’s policies. You’ve probably seen […]

Trump, Iran escalate war of words

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Trump, Iran escalate war of words Both President Trump and Iranian diplomats sent strongly-worded warnings as the arrival of the U.S. armada ramps up tensions in the region. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP...

Walz: Trump overseeing Pretti shooting investigation ‘so wrong on so many levels’

Following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last weekend, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) condemned President Trump’s comments that he will personally oversee the investigation into the 37-year-old's killing.  Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that his administration will conduct a “big investigation” into the matter.  “I...

Kid Rock calls for price cap on resale tickets to protect against gouging

Kid Rock on Wednesday called for a price cap on resale tickets for live music and sporting events, arguing that fans and artists have been “getting screwed” by a system that drives up prices and offers little benefit to performers. “I’m here because hardworking Americans who love live music deserve better, and artists deserve...

Trump, tech giants seek to change data center narrative

{beacon} Technology   The Big Story Trump, tech giants seek to change data center narrative President Trump and major tech companies are attempting to change the narrative around data centers, as rising electricity costs linked to AI infrastructure face growing local opposition and increasingly become a political liability. © Jeff Amy, Associated Press Both the...

Joaquin Castro shares Texas detention visit with 5-year-old boy, father captured in Minnesota

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) visited a 5-year-old and his father at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, where they are both being held following their arrests in Minnesota. “I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him,” Castro wrote...

Concerns over lawmaker safety heighten after attacks against Frost, Omar

Violent attacks in the last week against Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) have amplified already high concerns about the safety of lawmakers, as deepening political polarization and incendiary rhetoric further escalate the dangers members face. Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance Tuesday night while addressing constituents at a town hall in...

House Republicans warn against Senate changing DHS funding bill

House Republicans are warning the Senate against making any changes to a government funding package that includes funds for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), saying any reforms sought by Democrats would not clear the House and would lead to a government shutdown at the end of the week. Conservatives also say they would seek...

Slovakia’s PM rails against Politico report he was ‘shocked’ by Trump’s psychological state

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico fiercely denied a Politico report that he was “shocked” by President Trump’s state of mind during his visit to Mar-a-Lago this month. Politico, citing five unnamed European diplomats, reported that Fico told EU leaders at a summit in Brussels last week that his meeting with the U.S. president left him...

Rubio says oil companies were not tipped off about Venezuela operation, contradicting Trump

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that oil companies were not tipped off ahead of the Trump administration’s incursion into Venezuela, appearing to contradict past statements from President Trump. “The oil executives were not involved whatsoever in any of the planning on this matter,” Rubio said during a Senate hearing.  “All of those executives learned about...

Erika Kirk pledges Turning Point will match $1,000 government deposits in ‘Trump Accounts’

Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk said her organization will match the federal government’s $1,000 deposits in new “Trump Accounts” for the children of its employees.  Kirk wrote Wednesday on social platform X that her husband, the late conservative activist and Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk, “spoke so often about the importance of young families...

Mother planning a wedding, pilot killed in Maine plane crash

Families and organizations have begun to identify the six victims killed in a Sunday plane crash in Maine. Passengers were on board a Bombardier Challenger 600 that erupted in flames after an engine fire.  Lakewood Church employee Shawna Collins died on the aircraft, a church employee told The Associated Press. She served at the mega...

Watch live: Omar gives remarks after spraying incident in Minnesota

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will speak to reporters Wednesday evening, a day after she was sprayed with an unknown substance during a town hall in her home district. Omar has taken a defiant tone against the Trump administration's surge in federal agents to Minnesota in the wake of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis involving immigration...

5 takeaways from Rubio’s Senate hearing on Venezuela

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday urged patience on U.S. efforts to rehabilitate Venezuela’s oil industry and eventually return the country to democratic governance. The secretary’s remarks came during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio’s first appearance before lawmakers since the Trump administration’s audacious operation that resulted in the capture of...

Maine mayor: ‘This is not the America I grew up in’

The mayor of Portland, Maine, said he wants to personally speak with the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the agency expands operations in his city and state. “That’s a person just like me, nothing special, but we took an oath to be responsible,” Mark Dion, a former county sheriff, told MS...

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