President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion settlement with his own Justice Department, creating a fund that can be distributed to the president’s allies, stinks to high heaven. But Democrats have little standing to complain. They wrote and for decades followed the “sue and settle” playbook with which they sluiced money nefariously to allies to shape policy […]
President Trump’s move to release expelled former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from prison might be the most divisive use of his clemency and pardon powers since he granted full pardons to Jan. 6 rioters. Santos’s attorney Joseph Murray credited a number of MAGA movement stars in the House for helping him secure the grant of clemency: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Rep. Lauren...
Democrats in Congress called on President Trump to withdraw his nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) after a new report exposed text messages in which the nominee purportedly denounced the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and admitted to having a “Nazi streak in me from time to time.” Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.)...
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) furloughed more than three-quarters of its staff Monday as the government nears its fourth week of a shutdown. A Department of Energy spokesperson told The Hill that 1,400 NNSA employees will be furloughed by the end of Monday, leaving fewer than 400 working at the agency, which is in...
Former President Biden on Monday finished a round of radiation therapy to treat his aggressive former of prostate cancer, according to a Biden spokesperson. The course lasted several weeks, and the former president is “doing well,” the spokesperson told The Hill’s sister network, NewsNation. She did not comment on whether Biden’s medical team thinks he...
Former Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) will not be required to pay any additional fines or restitution related to his criminal conviction, according to his clemency order, which was made public on Monday. Santos was released from prison Friday after President Trump announced that he signed a sentence commutation for the former lawmaker, who reported to...
The organizers of Saturday’s “No Kings” protests succeeded in all their main aims: drawing huge crowds, keeping the events peaceful — and, apparently, getting under President Trump’s skin. The latter point appears to be borne out by Trump’s reaction. Having noted in advance of the protests that he is not, in fact, a king, the...
The Senate on Monday voted against reopening the federal government for the 11th time, pushing the shutdown to the three-week mark with both sides at loggerheads and unable to break the impasse. The chamber voted 50-43 on the House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to pass. Sens. Catherine Cortez...
President Trump's college compact offer has fallen flat. As of Monday's deadline to get back to the administration, at least six prominent universities have publicly rejected the deal, which offers favorable federal funding status in exchange for institutional changes, while none have accepted it. The general theme of the rejections has centered on the schools' beliefs the...
The Trump administration defended Alina Habba’s installation as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor before a skeptical federal appeals panel Monday. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit did not seem swayed that Habba, a former personal attorney to President Trump, is lawfully serving as New Jersey’s acting U.S. attorney. “Would...
Ukraine and the U.S. are finalizing a deal for Kyiv to secure 25 Patriot air defense systems, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday, a push that would boost the military’s ability to defend against Russian aerial attacks. “The difficulty lies in the production queue — a line of countries that have signed relevant contracts....
Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said her husband suggested they fake separating during his 2024 presidential campaign. "Some people were very upset that I was even married to Bobby,” Hines told Fox News in an interview published Monday. “They were vocally coming at me because...
