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Trump scores federal court win against House progressive accused of assaulting ICE

A Biden-appointed judge sided with Trump's DOJ, rejecting House Democrat LaMonica McIver's legislative immunity argument for getting her case thrown out.

Philadelphia DA says he’ll keep piece of Trump’s White House ballroom ‘after we all blow it up’

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday he expects President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom to one day be blown up in an “official ceremony."

Maverick Democrat surges with Republicans as his own party turns on him, stoking talk of GOP switch

John Fetterman now holds a 73% favorability among Pennsylvania Republicans, surpassing Dave McCormick's 63%, as party switch speculation grows.

Green New Dodge: El-Sayed runs from policy as newly surfaced deleted posts show years of support

Abdul El-Sayed refused to defend the Green New Deal on air, but deleted posts show he once wrote "I believe in a Green New Deal" in all caps.

Trump’s Canada Tariffs Are Not on Mission

Wasn’t this supposed to be a president elected to change our relationship with China?

Back-to-school season fuels growing measles concerns

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story Back-to-school season fuels growing measles concerns With back-to-school season underway, students are returning to class amid the worst year of measles in recent U.S. history, record-high vaccine exemptions reported among kindergarteners and continuously changing immunization guidance under the Trump administration. ...

Jackson calls Supreme Court’s mail-in voting ruling a ‘Kafkaesque nightmare’ 

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s junior liberal justice, excoriated her colleagues for lifting a block on President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order on Monday, saying it “needlessly injects chaos” into this year’s elections. “It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who...

Trump administration preparing to revoke visas of up to 200K foreigners in largest mass visa revocation ever

The Trump administration is preparing to revoke business and tourism visas from up to 200,000 migrants who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum in the U.S. on a rolling basis — a move that would trigger the largest mass visa revocation ever, The Associated Press reported Monday. The State Department is expected to...

Mamdani voices support for Jeffries amid Kushner meeting blowback

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Monday voiced his support for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) after the congressman received blowback for meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law. A reporter asked Mamdani if he supported Jeffries were he to become Speaker if Democrats reclaim the House following the fall midterm elections....

Byron Donalds: Kushner ‘just keepings lines of communication open’ with Jeffries meeting

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on Monday said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in recent weeks to create an opportunity for future discussions. “I think knowing Jared Kushner, I think he's used to keeping lines of communication open. These are some of the things that he does repeatedly,...

Trump’s super PAC drops more than $800K on Graham in South Carolina

President Trump’s super PAC MAGA Inc. spent more than $827,000 to support Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) ahead of the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff on Tuesday, marking the group’s most significant spending in months.  The filing with the Federal Election Commission, which was made public on Monday, marks the group’s first independent expenditure since March...

Trump forgoes military strikes, attempts economic chokehold on Iran

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Trump bets on economic chokehold on Iran over military strikes, for now Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the Trump administration’s economic pressure on Iran is hurting the regime “the most right now,” but did not...

FDA approves new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for a new test for Alzheimer's disease, marking the fourth time such a blood test has been approved in less than two years. Roche announced Sunday that the FDA had granted approval to its Elecsys Phospho-Tau blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. It's the fourth such...

Zelensky says wartime election would ‘destroy’ Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that holding elections amid Russia's war with Ukraine would "destroy" the country. "I believe that ​if we want to destroy the country, then we can move towards elections ​during this kind of war," Zelensky told reporters. The president said that elections "in general pose major risks," noting that...

Ontario’s Ford warns U.S. power could be cut as he trades insults with Trump

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday threatened to cut the province’s power exports to the U.S. as a trade war with President Trump plays out publicly for a second time.  Ford told reporters “everything is on the table” when it comes to retaliatory measures against the White House in response to failed trade talks and...

Trump administration proposes new H-1B visa fee

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Trump administration lays out new $103K fee proposal for H-1B visas The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a new proposed rule for H-1B visas on Monday that would charge a $103,265 fee for all workers seeking to gain employment in the U.S. who are subject to the...

Politicians aim to distance themselves from data centers

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Politicians aim to distance themselves from data centers As public pushback to data centers boils over, politicians on both sides of the aisle are racing to distance themselves from the controversial facilities. © Adobe Stock Key swing state candidates are scrambling to endorse stricter...

David Hogg: Media focus on Hasan Piker ‘kind of weird’

Activist David Hogg on Sunday said he finds recent media focus on left-wing streamer Hasan Piker “kind of weird.” “To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird. Like he's a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there's a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible...

DOJ signals it will appeal ruling requiring removal of some redactions in Epstein files

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday signaled its plans to appeal a ruling requiring the department to unredact various documents from the Epstein files in a suit brought by attorney and independent journalist Katie Phang.  The preliminary injunction, entered in June, orders redactions be removed in key documents of interest in the files, including “at...

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