LA is fading as a destination for real estate investors from abroad. Once a prime choice for international buyers, LA has been declining for six years. It attracts less...
Multiple hosts on ABC’s “The View” slammed Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for his litany of controversies, after reports surfaced over the weekend that he sent sexually explicit messages to women after he married his wife. Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House director of strategic communications during President Trump’s first term, listed...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday indicated that he is willing to take a federal appeals court decision restricting his transgender military ban to the Supreme Court. Earlier in the day, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled that the Trump administration, under a policy implemented by Hegseth last year, is unconstitutionally expelling troops actively...
Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) on Monday introduced legislation to block the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) scrapped earlier in the day. The bill, dubbed the Drain the Slush Fund Act, would bar the use of taxpayer money for payments to President Trump,...
Democratic anger grows as court rulings dampen midterm prospects. Plus, are Republican candidates fading in the California governor's race? And will Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) be primaried out of a job this weekend? The Hill’s senior vice president of editorial content, Bill Sammon, joins NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt to discuss the latest political hot topics and national news in “Whole...
President Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday that he “made no commitment” on the issue of Taiwan during his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week. “On Taiwan, he feels very strongly, I made no commitment either way," Trump told reporters while en route back to Washington. The comments...
[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 a.m. EDT as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] It is easy — indeed, too easy — to see the damage that the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns did to America’s young...
China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that it saw “no point” for the U.S. conflict with Iran to continue, as President Trump claimed he reached agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping on key issues in the war, such as reopening the Strait of Hormuz. “There is no point in continuing this conflict which should not...
Seven candidates running for California’s top office engaged in a fifth and final debate on Thursday evening that largely centered around the issue of affordability. The candidates were asked to provide their closing pitch to voters to address a growing number of cost of living concerns, including rising gas, grocery and housing prices in the...
President Trump late Thursday invoked his predecessor in attempting to explain comments by Chinese President Xi Jinping as the two leaders meet during a high-stakes visit, blaming former President Biden and his administration for the U.S.'s "decline." "When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was...
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a trip to Cuba Thursday to meet with officials amid negotiations that have followed President Trump’s public musings that he may invade the island nation. A CIA official also stressed Thursday that the window for negotiations may have a timeline, adding that “the Cubans should have no illusions that the...
The governor of South Carolina announced a special legislative session on Thursday to push through a new congressional map that would effectively eliminate the state’s singular Democratic House seat. The move is the latest in a widespread redistricting effort from both parties ahead of the November midterm elections. Republican Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive...
Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that he “never” considered asking former President Biden for a preemptive pardon before President Trump returned to office last year and wouldn’t have accepted one if given. “I don’t know,” Comey responded after CNN’s Kasie Hunt asked him whether he thought Biden might have granted him one if...