The Senate majority leader race is on. Or is it? Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is answering the calls of his Democratic colleagues who want new leadership when they take back control of Congress next year and is offering himself as an alternative to Charles E. Schumer.
At about 10:04 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the Texas Senate race for James Talarico. Roughly 16 minutes later, Ken Paxton conceded. The Republican attorney general had spent the better part of a year, in one of the most expensive Senate contests in American history, trying to hold a seat in a […]
Voters across the country rebuked President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, producing a powerful blue wave in the first major electoral test since his sweeping victory in 2024. The results were expected in battleground states, but not in Texas, a longtime bastion of conservatism that has maintained a […]
“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]
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...
OpenAI said Tuesday that it's rolling out age prediction technology for ChatGPT in the face of growing concerns about children’s safety when using AI chatbots. The technology aims to estimate whether an account likely belongs to someone under 18 years old in order to ensure teens are using a version of ChatGPT with additional protections....
President Trump on Tuesday said invoking the Insurrection Act to quell protests in Minnesota would “make life a lot easier,” even as he dismissed the prospect as unnecessary for the time being. In a sit-down interview with NewsNation’s “Katy Pavlich Tonight,” the president did not rule out the possibility of invoking the law in the...
President Trump is speaking at the World Economic Forum, where he’s facing off with European leaders amid his push to seize Greenland. Here's what to expect from the president's trip to Davos, Switzerland, as some Trump allies on Capitol Hill suggest the president should back off his efforts to acquire the island nation. Trump arrived...
President Trump touched down in Switzerland on Wednesday nearly two hours behind schedule, after a “minor electrical issue” forced Air Force One to turn back to Washington around 30 minutes into the flight to switch planes. Trump, flying on a smaller plane typically reserved for domestic travel, landed in Zurich shortly after 12:30 p.m. local...
