Democratic candidates gave Newsom no lower than a B-minus on homelessness, drawing sharp criticism from Republicans at a California gubernatorial debate on Wendesday.
The America First Policy Institute launched an investigation into the Virginia redistricting amendment vote, targeting mail-in ballot procedures and alleged school political activity.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan demands documents from the SPLC, alleging coordination with the Biden DOJ after the nonprofit's federal indictment.
The Pentagon has denied threatening the Vatican during a late January meeting with the Holy See’s then-envoy to the U.S., as Pope Leo XIV has warned against the growing use of military action in recent months. The Pentagon’s policy office head, Elbridge Colby, met with Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican's former diplomat to the U.S.,...
President Trump indicated Thursday that Iran was not living up to the ceasefire agreement reached between the two nations by not adequately reopening the Strait of Hormuz. In a Truth Social post, he wrote: “Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz.”...
High-stakes talks are set for Islamabad this weekend where U.S. and Iranian officials plan to meet to negotiate the terms of a tenuous ceasefire to end the war in Iran. The White House called the talks “ongoing” but any agreement remains extremely fragile as fighting continues across the Middle East. “As the White House has...
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday said President Trump "has more power" than former President Reagan. McCarthy emphasized Trump's executive strength during a talk at Harvard University's Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., where he spoke about his time in the House and the future of democracy in the U.S. "Right now, Trump has more...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} View Online Health Care Health Care The Big Story An unusually late RSV season runs into spring A later-than-expected season of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has states extending eligibility for preventive measures in children. Experts are urging parents to keep in mind the measures that...
The Artemis II crew will give remarks from the Orion spacecraft on Thursday evening, just days after the four astronauts traveled further into space than anyone before them. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — embarked on the 10-day lunar flyby mission...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesday went after the Republican response to President Trump’s recent post threatening Iran in which he stated that “a whole civilization will die." “It says something about just how bankrupt the Republican Party has become under Donald Trump, that none of them said a peep. And so, the reality...
A Wisconsin mayor who removed an absentee ballot drop box from city hall ahead of the 2024 presidential election will not face charges, a special prosecutor said Wednesday. Doug Diny, the mayor of Wausau, has maintained that he did nothing wrong when he carted away the city’s lone ballot drop box in September 2024, according...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday called artificial intelligence models that have found success in anticipating how the high court will rule in upcoming cases “a very bad thing.” “It shows we're way too predictable,” Sotomayor told students while speaking at the University of Alabama School of Law. “And we may not be stepping...
President Trump on Thursday tore into several right-wing media figures who had been reliably supportive of him during his second term until the U.S. war in Iran broke out. The president attacked several of the hosts and commentators personally, dismissed their viewpoints on the war and defended the military operation in the Middle East. "I...
The State Department will host a meeting next week in Washington, D.C., to discuss ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Israel and Lebanon, a department official confirmed Thursday. The official gave no further details on the talks, which will be focused on ending current hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, which Israel has targeted in...
Retired Gen. David Petraeus, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, said there is a “paradoxical question” about the future of Iran amid its conflict with the U.S. and Israel. “We can only answer it when the ultimate resolution is achieved here, but that is whether Iran will emerge militarily very weakened,” the retired general...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reportedly being in the White House's Situation Room weeks before the U.S.-Israeli joint military operation in Iran began. "Let's start with this pledge," Khanna, a possible 2028 White House contender, wrote on the social platform X. "The next Democratic President will never...
