Stephen Colbert largely steered clear of politics or direct criticism of President Trump during his final broadcast of "The Late Show" on Thursday night. Colbert, who repeatedly thanked his staff and viewership for supporting him during his 11 years on CBS, read headlines of the day as part of his opening monologue but cracked light-hearted...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the Trump administration’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers is “regrettable,” but the fault is with Democrats who won’t agree to the Republicans’ proposal to reopen the government. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker pressed Johnson on the administration’s unprecedented plan to...
President Trump called on Democratic Virginia attorney general nominee Jay Jones to drop out of his race over leaked text messages about former state House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R). “It has just come out that the Radical Left Lunatic, Jay Jones, who is running against Jason Miyares, the GREAT Attorney General in Virginia, made SICK...
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the former Army vice chief of staff, said he is “concerned” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “attack on women” in the military on Sunday. “I'm concerned about what I considered an attack on women, and the fact that there are people who say that women have been let into different combat fields...
Baby boomers who lost their white-collar jobs during the 2008 Great Recession experienced vastly different financial outcomes, with some experiencing "hard falls" while others experienced "soft landings", and Gen Xers today face the same quandary with potentially even more precarious financial outcomes.
President Trump’s push to expand and consolidate power is ramping up on multiple fronts, even as the government shutdown holds center stage on Capitol Hill. Trump’s actions are sharpening critics’ fears about creeping authoritarianism. The shutdown and Trump’s expansive use of power are interlinked in some respects. Trump has sought new ways to ratchet up...
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’s (R) gubernatorial campaign rolled out an ad tying her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, to the fallout over leaked text messages from Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones. The ad opens with a series of clips from news anchors about Jones’s unearthed 2022 text messages from Jones calling for the then-statehouse...
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, said on Sunday that federal layoffs will take place if President Trump decides that negotiations are going nowhere. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the NEC director signaled Republicans were far from willing to negotiate their position to end the government shutdown...
With easy access to photos, videos and personal information, a cybercriminal can create fraudulent accounts and donation campaigns — especially now, in an era of on-demand generative AI, deepfake apps, and voice cloning software.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Trump administration officials “want to create the warzone” in Chicago to send in more National Guard troops. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Pritzker condemned the nighttime raid in Chicago, saying it’s “emblematic” of what the Trump administration is trying to do. “This raid at this...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that this is the “closest we’ve come” to securing the release of all Israeli hostages, but warned of “pitfalls” amid peace negotiations. “This is the closest we’ve come to getting all of the hostages released, every single one.”,” Rubio said on ABC’s This Week. On Friday, Hamas partially...
An armed woman was shot after driving her vehicle into federal agents in Broadview, Ill., on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. According to a DHS statement obtained by NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, the woman, Marimar Martinez, rammed agents from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). Martinez was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,...
