President Trump’s super-PAC MAGA Inc. gave $10 million in support of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) Senate campaign ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings published Saturday. The $10 million payment, given to political media company, Del Ray Media, funded two attack ads against his Democratic opponent James...
President Trump is pushing ahead with his plan to import foreign beef as a way to reduce prices for Americans, despite the backlash from cattle farmers and Republicans whose states would be most be most affected. In an apparent effort to soften the blow, Trump signed executive orders Friday, including one that allows ranchers and...
President Trump will head to the GOP’s convention in Dallas next week — an event aimed at galvanizing Republican voters to get out the vote ahead of the midterm elections this November. The president will headline the two-day convention, and Vice President JD Vance is also expected to address attendees. Ahead of the inaugural event,...
President Trump is set to speak on Night 1 of the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) Midterm Convention in Dallas on Sept. 9. “The Greatest RALLY of them all,” Trump wrote in a Friday Truth Social post. “I’ll be speaking on night one, and hanging around for an earlier closing, and lots of music, on night...
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said he has no sympathy for Lindsay Clancy after her murder trial ended in a mistrial, rejecting the defense’s argument that severe mental illness left her not criminally responsible for killing her three children. “I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for Lindsay Clancy,” Gill said Friday on Fox News’s “The...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Wednesday called Israeli settler violence in the West Bank an “act of terror,” condemning their actions. Huckabee said his visit was for the U.S. citizens “who live in Turmusayya and other communities across this region” who are “disturbed by people who have created extraordinary challenges that are unfair...
Max Lederer, the former longtime publisher of the Stars and Stripes, on Saturday said he and the two other staffers fired by the Pentagon last month will “continue on” in their lawsuit after a federal judge denied their emergency request this week. Lederer and the paper’s former editor-in-chief, Erik Slavin, and reporter Lara Korte sued...
As illegal sports betting continues to fuel online abuse against collegiate athletes, there is growing calls for Congress to pass federal legislation establishing a national banned bettors registry and allowing athletes to sue harassers.
Missouri launched an effort at the Supreme Court late Friday to restore its Republican-friendly congressional map, warning that a lower ruling invalidating it has unleashed “unprecedented chaos” on the midterms. “A federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri,” Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s (R) office wrote in its emergency application. Missouri’s new congressional map created a...
House Democrats see President Trump's embrace of data centers as a political gift, hoping the radioactive issue will help the party flip control of the chamber in November's midterms. The topic has emerged as a late campaign juggernaut given the sheer proliferation of data centers in a great many communities around the country, which has...
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon spokesman and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top choice for the next Army secretary, is among at least four candidates being considered for the role, sources familiar with the process told The Hill this week. The field also includes at least two current officials — Marc Anderson, an assistant secretary of the...
Democrats are seeking to seize on the Republican National Committee's first-of-its-kind midterm convention with plans for counterprogramming around the two-day Dallas bash as the party eyes a Senate flip in the red state. Republicans are hopeful the so-called "Trump-a-palooza" next week excites the base about turning out amid a bleak midterm outlook for the GOP and concerns about low attendance, timing and...
Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer allegedly fostered a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace when she led the department, a scathing watchdog report released Thursday found. An investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General said Chavez-DeRemer, who resigned in April, regularly drank alcohol during the workday, failed to properly report expensive gifts she had...
The Vietnam War veterans suing over President Trump’s proposed triumphal arch are seeking an emergency court order to block the administration from pursuing its imminent plans to break ground in the Washington D.C. area. Veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, Jon Gundersen — along with architectural historian Calder Loth — filed their temporary restraining order request...
