"Reformers" slashed over 90% of our public psych beds and left the mentally ill to the streets, but a new report finds Kathy Hochul's and Eric Adams' reforms are...
Texas A&M University’s president Mark Welsh will step down on Friday after turmoil ignited over a gender identity lesson, the Texas A&M University System said on Thursday. Welsh, a former Air Force pilot and Joint Chiefs of Staff member, has received blowback from Republican lawmakers in recent days over a viral video where a student...
A group of Senate Democrats are calling on the United States government to recognize a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside a secure state of Israel. The nonbinding resolution was introduced Thursday by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the first of its kind in the Senate, as the pressure rises on Israel over its nearly two-year military siege...
Four members of Congress called attention to the bipartisan work their staffers put in on Thursday. The lawmakers, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Reps. James Comer (D-Ky.), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), honored the work of their staff at The Hill’s third annual Notable Staffers event. During a panel moderated by The Hill’s...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) accused President Trump of “abusing his power” in the wake of a reported plan to send National Guard troops to Chicago, a move that would follow similar action in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. “The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal...
Stephen Miller has been by President Trump’s side for most of the last 10 years of the president’s political career, taking center stage on some of the president's biggest battles – from border security to culture wars. The crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital is Miller’s latest project, working to make his own mark...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) endorsed Rep. Chip Roy (R) in his bid for Texas attorney general, throwing his support behind his former chief of staff on Saturday. “I am proud to endorse Chip Roy for Attorney General of Texas. As my very first chief of staff, Chip has been a close friend and ally of...
President Trump selected Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia this week as the U.S.'s first chief design officer as part of the administration’s push to update the federal government’s design language to be both “usable and beautiful.” Gebbia, who joined the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earlier this year and is on the board of Tesla, said...
President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said on Saturday that a Florida judge's order to temporarily shut down some of Alligator Alcatraz is “not going to stop” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, indicating that migrants apprehended by federal agents could be sent to other detention facilities. “They're not going to stop us doing what...
Comedian Bill Maher praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) social media strategy of trying to “out-stupid” President Trump. “Gavin Newsom is now trolling Trump. I’ve never seen a Democrat do this. I think it’s very funny… he’s imitating Trump’s exact style,” Maher said Friday during his “Real Time With Bill Maher” show. “This is Newsom:...
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley condemned the Trump administration’s decision to take a 10 percent stake in Intel. “Biden was wrong to subsidize the private sector with the Chips Act using our tax dollars. The counter to Biden is not to lean in and have govt own part of Intel,” Haley, who was the...
California will ask voters this fall to decide whether to redraw this state’s congressional lines after its Democratic-controlled Legislature formally approved a sweeping redistricting plan on Thursday, a response to GOP-led efforts in Texas. The plan, if voters give it the green light, could give Democrats five additional House seats, potentially nullifying the gains Republicans...
Trade negotiations between the U.S. and India are ongoing, although New Delhi has some “red lines” that it will defend, according to India's foreign minister. “I mean, negotiations are still going on in the sense that nobody said the negotiations are off. You know? I mean, and people, people do talk to each other,” Indian...
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta weighed in on the FBI’s raid of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, suggesting Friday night that there’s “some targeting here going on.” “We don‘t know all the facts here because we don‘t know what the Justice Department said to a magistrate judge in order to get...
The U.S. should establish a Public AI Wealth Fund to ensure that the public benefits from the returns of AI, while using competition, data, labor and energy rules to keep the field open and the harms in check.
President Trump is seeing a growing disapproval rating among Americans seven months into his second White House term, according to a Friday survey. . The Economist/YouGov poll found that 40 percent of Americans “strongly or somewhat” approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency. More than half of U.S. adults, 56 percent, said they “strongly or...
