Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference gives us an alluring glimpse of the president he could be one day.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday that President Trump remains intent on acquiring Greenland. "I think the desire from the U.S. president is exactly the same. He’s very serious about this," Frederiksen said at the Munich Security Conference, according to the BBC. Throughout December and January, the president raised his view that the U.S....
In an interview that aired Sunday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) urged his party to take a more aggressive governing posture to fight back against the Trump administration and regain popularity. “There’s something that we have to make sure that we do better and that’s actually meet people where they are and move with a...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) declined to say whether President Trump is racist in an interview released Sunday, just over a week after a video depicting the Obamas as apes posted to the president’s Truth Social account sparked bipartisan backlash. “I think that’s a question for President Trump,” Moore, shaking his head, told CBS News’s...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Doomsday Clock ticks four second closer to midnight The world slipped further toward the abyss over the past year, with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Tuesday moving the hands of the famed Doomsday Clock four...
President Trump is throwing his support behind year-round sales of high-ethanol gasoline amid significant congressional debate over the issue. “In the campaign, I promised to support E15 all year round,” Trump said during a speech in Iowa, referring to high-ethanol gas, called E15 for its ethanol content of up to 15 percent. “I am trusting Speaker...
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen on Tuesday called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be “defunded and disbanded” after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, the second deadly shooting involving federal law enforcement this month. Cohen wrote on the social platform X that he had planned...
Fox News host Dana Perino on Tuesday pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on labeling Alex Pretti, the second Minneapolis resident shot and killed by federal immigration enforcement officers this month, as a "domestic terrorist" after administration officials differed on using the term. Perino played a clip of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem...
The Senate heads back to Washington on Tuesday as a partial government shutdown looms. But Democrats are eyeing funding for Department of Homeland Security (DHS), after the weekend killing of a Minneapolis man by a Border Patrol (CBP) agent. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has indicated he intends to move forward with a six-bill...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) threatened to lead impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem if President Trump does not fire her amid turmoil over immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota. “Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately,” Jeffries wrote Tuesday in a post on the social platform X. “Or Democrats...
Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez expressed concerns Tuesday that the Trump administration’s tactics in its hard-line immigration crackdown could hurt the GOP heading into the midterm elections. “Politically, it’s hurting our chances at the midterms — and I’m just being frank about it,” Gimenez told Newsmax. “And the most important thing we have to do...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney doubled down on his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, during which he backed Greenland’s sovereignty and pushed back on President Trump’s tariff agenda. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney told reporters...
UPS is planning to cut up to 30,000 operational jobs this year as the package delivery company continues with its turnaround efforts and reducing the number of Amazon shipments that it handles.
President Trump is traveling to Iowa on Tuesday to tout his economic agenda ahead of the 2026 midterms. The visit to Des Moines is the latest on Trump's tour, after he spoke in Detroit and Pennsylvania in recent months. The president has seen falling approval ratings amid rising concerns over inflation and affordability — which...
