A Maryland bill to establish a commission to study reparations is moving forward, as the governor attempts to dodge questions about whether he supports the proposal.
Republican state Sen. Randy Fine won Tuesday's special election in Florida's 6th Congressional District to fill the seat that Michael Waltz vacated to serve as President Trump's national security adviser.
The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, U.S officials said Tuesday.
Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. government has used its immigration enforcement powers to crack down on international students and scholars at several American universities who had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations or criticized Israel over its military action in Gaza.
President Trump announced Monday that a slew of allies would be appointed to the boards of visitors at the nation’s military academies, including lawmakers and conservative media personalities. Trump posted on Truth Social that his picks for the West Point Board of Visitors included Michael Flynn, a retired lieutenant general who in 2017 pleaded guilty...
As a result of recent court orders, federal employees are returning to their jobs — but are being put on paid leave. A spokesperson for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told The Hill that as a result of a court restraining order, it was rescinding the terminations of 419 employees. The spokesperson said that these...
Mississippi state and federal officials have confirmed an outbreak of a strain of bird flu not reported in the U.S. since 2017, with quarantine and depopulation efforts already underway. In a statement released March 12, the Mississippi Board of Animal Health stated that poultry from a commercial broiler breeder chicken flock in Noxubee County had...
The Trump administration is pushing to change the judge overseeing a challenge to the president’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to carry out swift deportations. The Justice Department made the request in a new filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where the administration is appealing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s...
The members of the Jan. 6 investigative committee are hitting back at President Trump for his threat to nullify the presidential pardons surrounding their work. The investigators not only contend that Trump lacks the authority to revoke the preemptive pardons, which were issued in January by former President Biden, but also maintain that their probe...
Senior White House aide Stephen Miller on Monday asserted a federal judge did not have the authority to direct how the administration carried out the deportations of alleged gang members amid a clash over flights carrying deportees to El Salvador. Miller spoke to reporters at the White House ahead of a court hearing over a...
President Trump announced he will release 80,000 pages of unredacted files Tuesday about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, after promising on the campaign trail to declassify the documents. “While we're here, I thought it would be appropriate — we are, tomorrow, announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files. So, people have been...
The U.S. military’s surprise strikes on Yemen’s Houthi militants over the weekend continued into Monday after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged an “unrelenting” campaign until the group stops attacking vessels in the Red Sea. “This campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence. The minute the Houthis say, ‘We’ll stop shooting at your ships,...
President Trump says he's "disappointed" with what he saw while touring the Kennedy Center for the first time after naming himself chair of the performing arts institution as part of an unprecedented overhaul, vowing to fix up a place he says "represents a very important part" of both Washington and the country. "It's in tremendous...
Georgetown University is launching a program to offer tuition assistance and career services for federal workers impacted by President Trump's push to shrink the government workforce.
Conservative Christians are pushing themselves to the front of the fight against antisemitism and claiming, in essence, to be better Jews than the Jews themselves.
The Washington, D.C., attorney general’s office has dropped its lawsuit against the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In a court filing, the attorney general’s office said the city was unlikely to be able to find enough money to justify continuing the case against the conservative...
The White House on Monday cast doubt on the authority of a verbal order from a judge directing the administration to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants out of the country. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt faced several questions during a briefing about the administration’s decision to ignore the order from a federal judge....
