Politicians have been described in many unsavory ways, but not since the days when Tammany Hall’s gangster bosses ruled the roost has a major New York official been called...
Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.
President Trump said Tuesday that Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, the National Guard member who survived last month's ambush attack in the District of Columbia, got up from bed.
Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Comey, James cases dismissed ▪ Mike Johnson facing internal divisions ▪ Trump delays health care proposal ▪ Stephen A. Smith discusses presidential speculation Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) scored big victories Monday when a federal judge dismissed...
President Trump on Monday praised quarterback Shedeur Sanders of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns. “Shedeur Sanders was GREAT. Wins first game, career start, as a pro (for Cleveland). Great Genes. I TOLD YOU SO!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform early Monday. Trump’s post came after the Browns won Sunday versus the...
Chauncey Billups, the head coach of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, pleaded not guilty in a case involving rigged poker games, according to The Associated Press. Billups on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges that he made money via poker games that were fixed and featured multiple people in the Mafia and at least one...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday the price of this year's Thanksgiving turkey is set to rise a “whopping 40 percent." “So, we're coming up on Thanksgiving, and it's as good a time as any to try to take stock of Donald Trump's promise to reduce costs for the American people. Well, grocery prices are...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Pentagon goes after Mark Kelly The Pentagon said Monday that it has received “serious allegations of misconduct” against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and launched a review after the senator joined a handful of other lawmakers calling...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) stunning decision to resign from Congress sets off a political grenade for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as he works to keep his grip on an already delicate GOP majority in the House. Greene’s decision comes at a pivotal moment for Johnson, who is counting on every Republican vote to pass...
Democratic strategist James Carville is pushing Democrats to run on “pure economic rage” in an opinion piece for The New York Times. “It is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression,” Carville said in the piece published Monday. “It is...
Senate Democrats are asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi to declassify and publicly release the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel’s classified, written opinion outlining the legal basis for the Trump administration's strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Thirteen Senate Democrats, all members of the...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Ron Johnson shoots down tariff checks Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), a leading fiscal hawk in the Senate, says the country “can’t afford” President Trump’s proposal to send out $2,000 tariff “dividend” checks to working-class Americans to...
