Sen. Bill Cassidy said his 2021 vote to convict President Trump on a House impeachment charge of inciting the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol may have ended his political career, but he has no regrets.
The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the management of a quarter-billion acres of public lands on Monday, as the administration pushes ahead with more mining and drilling while reversing conservation plans.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Monday opened an investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over its alleged funding of extremist groups it claimed to oppose. Last month, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., indicted the SPLC on six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is urging his Senate Republican colleagues to delay action on a budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029, in part because he said a proposal to spend $1 billion on the White House ballroom is “a major policy problem.” He threatened to vote no on the budget reconciliation...
Democrat Roy Cooper has an 11-point lead over Republican Michael Whatley in the Senate race in North Carolina, according to a new poll from The Carolina Journal/Harper Polling. The survey, released last week, found that nearly half of 600 likely voters in North Carolina said they would either “definitely” or “probably” back Cooper, the former...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} View Online Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth's Pentagon turmoil makes GOP senators uneasy A growing group of Senate Republicans are losing confidence in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pentagon leadership, with some wanting to see him “move on." Annabelle Gordon/AFP via...
A free speech group led by Hollywood star Jane Fonda is defending comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who President Trump and first lady Melania Trump said Monday should lose his late-night hosting gig over a joke last week calling the first lady an "expectant widow," a dig that came just days before the latest assassination attempt against...
President Trump and his political allies are pointing to Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner as providing urgent proof of the need for his planned ballroom on White House grounds, touting its security strengths for large events. Trump highlighted the ballroom’s security benefits shortly after the shooting on Saturday, telling reporters...
A group of Senate Democrats are investigating an early March attack on U.S. troops stationed in Kuwait, where six service members were killed and another 20 were injured amid the U.S. war with Iran. The four Democrats - Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) - all members of...
A new (and very specific) speed limit has been posting in Wisconsin at the Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility. Drivers entering the facility need to drive no faster than 17.3 mph.
A fresh wave of conspiracy theories is rolling through social media across the country following Saturday night’s attempted assassination of President Trump at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. The unfounded theories largely capitalize on short video snippets of those in the room and initial breaking news reports filed moments after a gunman tried to breach a ballroom at...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday called White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt a “stone-cold liar” after she blamed Democrats for the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. “I think that what's interesting to me, as you pointed out, is that the so-called White House press secretary, who's a disgrace,...
The decision by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending giving infants a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth is likely to lead to hundreds of more infections, worse health outcomes and millions of dollars in higher costs, according to new research published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. The CDC in December approved the change to longstanding practice following...
The Trump administration will pay two energy companies to abandon their offshore wind ambitions and invest in fossil fuels instead. The Interior Department announced on Monday that it would issue a refund to Global Infrastructure Partners, which is part of BlackRock and Golden State Wind, for the money they paid for the opportunity to build...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is standing by his promise to use “maximum warfare” in the battle over redistricting, even following Saturday’s shooting at a press gala where President Trump was in attendance. In the wake of the shooting, a number of conservatives have hammered Jeffries’s choice of language, saying the Democratic leader was...
Weijia Jiang, the president of the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), said Monday that the Washington Hilton donated roughly 2,600 meals that went unserved after the association’s annual dinner was cut short Saturday by a gunman. Jiang wrote on the social platform X that hotel staff “freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf...
The suspected gunman involved in Saturday's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner is slated to appear in court Monday. Early indications are that likely he was targeting President Trump and other top officials. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt added a press briefing to the schedule; she'll appear in the briefing room...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday that the security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner appeared “lax,” recounting the night during a Fox News interview on Monday morning. “I can tell you, from a layman's perspective, it did look a little lax in terms of, as everyone's now noted, getting into the building....
