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 on Thursday said he hoped Russia would “do the right thing” as his administration presses for a ceasefire agreement between Moscow and Ukraine. Trump told reporters he was getting “good signals” about where Russia stood on agreeing to a ceasefire, though he acknowledged nothing was certain. Trump also expressed an openness to speaking...
House Democrats of all stripes have spent the entirety of President Trump’s first two months denouncing his governing strategy as chaotic and hammering his policy prescriptions as harmful to working class people — even those who supported the president. Few have sent that message as colorfully as Rep. Andrea Salinas, a second-term Oregon Democrat, who...
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employee was accused of a scheme to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a Wednesday release. According to the release, Serina Baker-Hill, of Detroit, was charged with allegedly attempting to defraud FEMA and lying to federal agents. Baker-Hill, 55, was...
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell announced he'd be taking a week off from his nightly show, citing his "exhaustion" with the first few weeks of President Trump's second term. “I’m exhausted at day 52, and so I’m going to take next week off. And I’m telling you that now because I know you don’t like it...
The Trump administration’s plans to detain migrants in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, hit another roadblock this week after all 40 such individuals held there were sent back to the United States, with no future deportation flights scheduled to the island. A defense official confirmed to The Hill Thursday there are “zero” migrants being held at Naval...
President Trump is scheduled to meet with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte around noon EDT Thursday. The meeting comes as Trump demands that European countries spend more on their own security, including the ongoing costs of supporting Ukraine's defensive war against Russia. Rutte has sought to keep the world's most powerful military alliance united as European...
President Trump will give a speech focused on "law and order" at the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, according to the White House. The president is set to argue that there has been a weaponization of justice based on politics, a common theme of his, and also discuss his plans to combat crime. “President...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced he will not run for Senate in Michigan, keeping the door open for a potential presidential run in 2028.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Thursday that Republicans are open to giving Democrats an amendment vote on a monthlong stopgap funding patch in exchange for votes to help Republicans pass a yearlong spending bill to avert a government shutdown. Thune told reporters he has yet to speak directly with Senate Minority Leader Chuck...
The Trump administration has resumed family detention of immigrants, a legal nonprofit said, reigniting a controversial practice largely curtailed under the Biden administration. Fourteen families with children as young as 1 year old are being held in a detention facility in Karnes County, Texas, outside of San Antonio, according to the nonprofit group RAICES, which...
NASA and SpaceX canceled Wednesday’s planned launch of the Crew-10 mission to retrieve astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS), citing an issue with the launch pad. The delay means NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will have to wait at least another day or two before they can head home to Earth after...
