Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he wants to end his campaign on a “positive” note. Sen. John Cornyn, however, is prepared to go down fighting.
Paxton said Thursday...
President Trump said Wednesday a Middle East deal is “very close” after he teased a weekend visit to Egypt. “I was just given a note by the secretary of State saying that we’re very close to a deal in the Middle East," Trump said at a White House roundtable on left-wing violence. "And they're going...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Pressure points: 5 ways the shutdown could end Something will have to give if lawmakers hope to reopen the government in any timely fashion, and that movement will likely be the result of external forces exerting...
President Trump hosted a roundtable of administration officials and conservative influencers to highlight efforts to crack down on left-wing groups, specifically the anti-fascist movement known as antifa. Trump hosted the event Wednesday as his administration has sought to unilaterally intervene in Chicago and Portland, Ore., despite resistance from state and local officials. The president blamed...
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a judge's order halting President Trump's federalization of Oregon National Guard troops, but the troops still cannot be deployed to the state.
The House Select Committee on China is calling for stronger restrictions on companies producing the equipment used to make semiconductor chips amid concerns their sales are boosting Beijing's chipmaking capabilities. In a new report Tuesday, the panel said Chinese firms spent $38 billion on semiconductor manufacturing equipment from five major companies based in the U.S....
Pope Leo XIV told U.S. bishops to openly state their concerns regarding the Trump administration’s immigration policies on Wednesday, according to Reuters. During his meeting at the Vatican with the bishops and social workers from the border between the U.S. and Mexico, the pope received letters from migrants regarding their concerns around President Trump’s mass...
The Trump administration can’t force organizations that receive federal teen pregnancy prevention grants to comply with an executive order against “indoctrinating” children about “radical gender ideology,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., an appointee of former President Obama, ruled that a July directive from the Department of Health...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) challenged President Trump to “come and get” him after the president called for Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) to be put in jail. “You know as well as I do, the president of the United States in the last 24 hours called for you to be imprisoned,” MSNBC’s...
President Trump is holding a roundtable Wednesday afternoon at the White House centered on antifa, an anti-fascist movement. Trump last month signed an order designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, following through on a pledge in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to crack down on left-wing groups. The move has received pushback from...
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said the government shutdown has benefited Democrats so far, while congressional Republicans have "skedaddled" as the government stays closed. Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire on MSNBC, Whitehouse was asked about his faith in Democratic leadership and the pay risks to federal workers as the shutdown entered its eighth day....
Virginia Giuffre's brother on Tuesday said it’s “hurtful” that President Trump declined to rule out issuing a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate and girlfriend. “It’s hurtful for a lot of survivors out there. It’s hurtful for me, as a family member, to even hear the potential for a pardon — that he...
Music artist Zach Bryan is responding to backlash after a clip from one of his songs was interpreted as critical of immigration raids, saying it was taken out of context and the tune is actually about his "love" of the U.S. "I wrote this song months ago. I posted this song three months ago as...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has proposed sending ICE agents to the Super Bowl halftime show to arrest people who may be in the country illegally, which critics say is political malpractice and could alienate Latino voters, independents, and NFL fans.
