Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said President Donald Trump has a "right" to influence federal investigations, including those looking into the president's political enemies.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin on Wednesday defended an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot a pastor with a pepper ball from a rooftop, after a video of the incident went viral this week. Videos of the Sept. 19 incident, which circulated widely Wednesday on social media, showed Pastor...
The Senate on Thursday morning will hold its seventh vote on the GOP- and Democratic-led stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government. Senate Republicans need to flip at least five more Democrats to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to turn the lights back on. Despite three defections thus far, the last six votes on...
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
Trevor Noah says one of the "first things you lose" in authoritarianism is comedy and that fellow comics are "s‑‑‑ting themselves" under President Trump. "When I was growing up until I was 6 years old, maybe even like closer to 10, free speech wasn't a thing," Noah, who was born in South Africa, said during...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is adding pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to call lawmakers back to Washington after he canceled this week's votes amid the government shutdown. “I think he should really bring the House back in session for many reasons,” Greene told CNN in an interview Wednesday, while criticizing Johnson for stalling...
Synthetic drugs are proliferating all over the world, not because of prohibition, but because it’s cheaper, easier and more profitable to sell synthetic drugs.
President Trump says he expects the remaining hostages to be released from Gaza on Monday as part of the first phrase of Trump's 20-point peace plan. “The big thing is hostages are going to be released. It's probably, our time, would be probably Monday, and you know, it's… a terrible situation there,” the president said...
Israel and Hamas are expected on Thursday to sign a deal brokered by President Trump, who lauded the first phase of peace coming to the Middle East and the team that made it happen. "The world has come together around this deal," Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News on Wednesday night. There and on...
Most Americans support bringing U.S. servicemembers home from Iraq and Syria, saying that the military should generally have less involvement in the Middle East, according to a new survey shared first with The Hill. The Thursday poll, from Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) and YouGov, found that 62 percent of U.S. adults at least somewhat...
The U.S. has carried out scores of covert and overt regime-change operations since the last century. Scholarly consensus is clear: such interventions rarely advance U.S. interests and usually produce unintended consequences that recoil on America itself. Yet President Trump’s administration is engaged in a barely disguised effort to topple President Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela....
The federal electric vehicle mandate is dead. And not a moment too soon. As of September 30, most major automakers are no longer eligible for the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. For years, this subsidy masked the true cost of electric vehicles and propped up demand for cars that many Americans never wanted in the...
