ICE announces arrests of convicted illegal immigrants, including murderers and drug traffickers from Vietnam, Honduras, Cuba and Mexico, in recent enforcement operations.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called out the “hypocrisy" of Democrats advocating for states’ rights in Minnesota after he was lambasted for enforcing the border under the Biden administration.
Lynne Walz, a distant relative of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), launched a campaign on Wednesday for governor of Nebraska. “After listening to folks across the state, I am officially running for Governor! Nebraska is built on grit and common sense, and I am ready to bring those values to Lincoln,” Lynne Walz said in...
The House voted to undo the Biden administration’s decision to block off mining in a wilderness area in Minnesota on Wednesday, using a limited legislative tool to go after the 2023 action. The 214-208 vote seeks to undo protections for an area around Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The vote came under the Congressional Review Act...
UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the largest national health care provider in the U.S., is planning to return profits it makes in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace to consumers in 2026. CEO and Chair Stephen Hemsley is expected to announce the idea when he appears before a House Committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Thursday,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has taken his fight with President Trump from the United States and online to Davos, Switzerland, elevating it to a global stage. Newsom spent much of Wednesday at Davos needling the president, including by calling Trump’s address to Davos, in which he said for the first time that he would not...
A House committee found that CVS Health may have violated federal antitrust laws by threatening independent pharmacies to keep them from using money-saving services outside the company’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) network. The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), opened an investigation into possible anti-competitive practices by the company’s PBM, CVS Caremark,...
One year into his second term, what we’ve actually experienced feels less like a golden age and more like a political stress test — full of speed, spectacle, and sharp division.
President Trump told reporters Wednesday that NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is "more important" than Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen when asked about Danish officials' unwillingness to discuss the U.S. acquiring Greenland. “They didn’t tell me that, so when they tell me because I don’t like getting it second hand. And if he wants to...
President Trump on Wednesday sent a message to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, telling him that his country "lives because of the United States," days after the prime minister defended Greenland against Trump's effort to acquire the island territory. "We're building a Golden Dome that's going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom can’t handle the truth — or at least isn’t able to articulate what it is. Here he was flubbing a very basic and fundamental question from Ben Shapiro about whether men can become women. He’s not the only one, of course. Most Democrats, including most of the potential 2028 contenders, do not want to answer even easy questions about transgender issues. Axios tried to...
Federal law enforcement agents were involved in a shooting in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles early Wednesday while conducting an immigration enforcement operation, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A DHS spokesperson told The Hill’s sister station, NewsNation, in a statement that agents were conducting a “targeted operation” in Compton, Calif., around...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was denied entry to the USA House in Davos, Switzerland, where he was invited to speak during the World Economic Forum. “Under pressure from the White House and State Department, USA House (a church acting as the official US pavilion) is now denying entry to @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom to speak...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said President Trump was not going to invade Greenland, comments that followed the president ruling out military force to acquire the island. “He was never going to invade Greenland,” Newsom told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “It was never real. So, that was...
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will depose longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Feb. 9, committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said on Wednesday. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for her role in procuring abuse victims for Epstein. Comer made the announcement during the committee’s meeting on holding...
