Just-released federal data shows that illegal immigrants make up 14% of incarcerated individuals in New York — so they're overrepresented in the state’s prisons and jails by at least...
Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that the rapid rise of artificial intelligence poses profound risks for American workers and society, arguing that the billionaires driving the technology's development are motivated by profit and power rather than public well-being.
President Trump projected optimism going into his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, telling reporters he expects to make progress after weeks of intensified talks aimed at bringing an end to the nearly four-year war with Russia. Standing next to Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago residence on Sunday, Trump said he believes both the Ukrainian leader...
President Trump said he has invited the families of the two West Virginia National Guard members who were shot in Washington last week to the White House. U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom died last week after the shooting, which took place blocks from the White House on Wednesday. US Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe,...
We’ve had so much inflation over the past five years, consumers are still reeling from the adjustment, even though our annual inflation is now back down to a reasonable range.
President Trump said late Sunday that he has complete confidence in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, even as the commander in chief said he would look into allegations that Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” aboard an alleged drug boat in September. "I don't know anything about it. He said he did not say...
Can you name a federal program responsible for creating or supporting 7 million high-paying jobs, attracting $75 billion in private investment, and generating $14.5 billion in tax revenue in the last four years? Here's one other key detail: The program didn’t cost taxpayers a dime in that period. All of these benefits are byproducts of...
Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Health care crunch time ▪ Hottest Senate races ▪ Trump’s sinking polls ▪ Honduran presidential election Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing bipartisan scrutiny over his reported order to strike a boat in the Caribbean a second time, killing two survivors who were clinging to the ship’s wreckage...
Republican senators are panning President Trump's latest proposals to help Americans cope with high prices and a slowing economy, a sign of waning confidence among GOP lawmakers in Trump’s ability to overhaul the nation’s $30 trillion economy. Capitol Hill Republicans are becoming more sensitive to how Trump is responding to higher prices as they face...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is staring down a potential political firestorm in the coming weeks as a few Republican dissenters aim to use a rare procedural mechanism to force legislation on a stock trading ban and Russian sanctions onto the House floor. His colleagues’ attempts to sidestep him on these issues puts Johnson in a...
Widespread post-Thanksgiving flight delays due to winter weather could continue through the beginning of the week, according to officials. There were 11,273 flight delays within, into or out of the United States on Sunday, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware, with 831 cancellations within, into or out of the country. The recent delays also follow...
President Trump on Sunday took a swing at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) over comments the governor made in which he pressed the president to “release the MRI results.” “Governor Walz asked you to release the MRI records,” a reporter on Air Force One noted to Trump. “Governor Walz? You mean, the incompetent governor? So,...
GOP strategist Karl Rove said Republicans need to have a health care agenda ahead of the midterm elections or they’ll be in “deep trouble” with their voters. In an interview Saturday on Fox News’s “Journal Editorial Report,” Rove said Republicans need to have a health care plan to share with voters next year, along with...
