JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the latest development in a legal saga between the president and the nation's biggest bank over the issue known as "debanking."
The four candidates vying for the Republican nomination for Texas Attorney General — State Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, State Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas — agree on almost everything. However, that didn't stop them from attacking each other on their records and experience during Tuesday night's Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) debate.
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is joining a growing group of Democrats who plan to boycott President Trump’s State of the Union address next Tuesday in favor of an alternative event, according to progressive media outlet MeidasTouch. The outlet reported that Schiff is set to speak at a counter rally on the National Mall, dubbed the...
From Feb. 12-28, park resource crews will cut down tamarisk trees in the area and then treat the stumps with the herbicide triclopyr. The National Parks Service said in a Jan. 27 news release that it will remove invasive trees in Big Bend National Park, along the Rio Grande and the park's hot springs area.
“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie is calling for prayers as the search continues for her missing mother. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing on Sunday morning after she did not show up for church near Tucson, Ariz. In an Instagram post on Monday evening, the NBC host asked her followers to “please pray” for the return...
House Republicans could end the partial government shutdown on Tuesday, as the lower chamber gears up for votes on a five-bill minibus and a two-week continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A razor-thin margin and Democrats' refusal to fast-track the funding package put House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his conference...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard participated in the FBI’s recent search of a Georgia election center at the request of President Trump, she told members of Congress in a Monday letter. Last week, Gabbard was captured on camera by a Reuters photographer near the election office in Fulton County, Ga., where she was seen...
A portion of the MAGA base that has long supported mass deportations is worried that the Trump administration will pump the brakes on its immigration enforcement strategy in the wake of mass public outrage over the killing of two Americans by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. “We have to hold the line. There can be...
Trump is using the Department of Justice to target his political enemies and intimidate journalists, just as the Department of Defense is being used to wage war and seize other countries' resources.
The House Rules Committee on Monday night advanced legislation to end a partial government shutdown, teeing up what will be a tight vote on the House floor for House Republican leadership. The panel advanced the funding package 8-4 along party lines. The legislation, passed by the Senate last week, consists of a so-called minibus of...
Maryland Democrats advanced a new set of congressional lines that would eliminate the state’s one remaining GOP-held House seat on Monday. The Maryland House of Delegates voted 99-37 to advance a new House map that would give Democrats an 8-0 edge in their congressional delegation. The state currently has a 7-1 Democratic edge. The legislation...
Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas), a former Harris County, Texas, attorney, was sworn in as a member of the House on Monday after winning the special election runoff for the late Rep. Sylvester Turner’s (D-Texas) seat last week. “It's been more than 330 days since the people of the 18th Congressional District had representation, had a...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Newsom’s anti-Trump public health platform California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has positioned himself and his state as the frontline in opposing the new public health guidelines coming from the Trump administration, a strong platform as a 2028 presidential...
Congress is staring at a steep climb to finalizing a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as progressives and conservatives each try to throw their weight after the shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis. The House aims to send the five-bill minibus and a two-week DHS continuing resolution to President Trump’s desk...
