Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Trump's $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.
I was recently in Kansas City. My Uber driver was Jesse — sharp, easy to talk to. He mentioned, almost offhandedly, that his girlfriend's mother and a close friend had just moved in with them. Between housing costs and gas prices, the math had stopped adding up for him. Jesse drives people for a living....
President Trump touched down in Turkey on Tuesday for the NATO summit in the country’s capital city of Ankara this week. Trump was greeted by Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the tarmac before greeting Turkish soldiers present for his arrival. U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker and Joint...
President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will give remarks from Ankara on Tuesday, ahead of the highly anticipated NATO summit. Trump’s trip to the forum comes as his administration has floated the idea of pulling the U.S. out of the organization. He has also faced growing pushback from the GOP — and Israel...
Americans are nearly three times as likely to be concerned rather than excited about the growing footprint of artificial intelligence in society, according to a new biweekly survey about the public’s sentiment on the advancing technology. The “Americans on AI” poll, first shared with The Hill by the new nonprofit Athena Insights, found the majority...
President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen on Monday said he and the president have reconciled after he turned on his former boss. Cohen joined John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby for Friday’s "Cats & Cosby Show" on 77 WABC to talk about the president and said the "far left ... brought back the relationship" roughly...
A new poll from Monday shows that a majority of Maine voters say they want Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) to drop out if another scandal surfaces. Wedgewood Polls found in its latest survey on the Maine Senate race that 75 percent of Maine voters would want Platner to drop out following another scandal, with...
The United States was eliminated from the World Cup on Monday night in Seattle with a 4-1 loss to Belgium, ending an improbable run by a team that had been at the center of controversy over a questionable call by a referee in its final days of competition. American star striker Folarin Balogun was held...
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Chair Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Monday called on Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) to withdraw as the Democratic nominee. "The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing –– violence, abuse and sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable," Schumer and Gillibrand said in a joint statement....
Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker on Monday said it was "curtains" for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) after Politico reported that a former girlfriend accused the oyster farmer of sexually assaulting her in 2021. Piker read the story aloud on his Twitch stream shortly after it was published. He read the portion of the report...
Democrats and progressives on Monday called for Maine Democratic candidate Graham Platner to end his Senate campaign amid a new accusation of sexual assault. "I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line," Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), previously a vocal defender of the Senate candidate, wrote on social media....
It looks like Graham Platner won’t be putting oyster stew on the Senate Dining Room menu any time soon. In the wake of the most serious allegations yet against the scandal-soaked Democratic Senate nominee — this time that he raped an erstwhile girlfriend in 2021 — the months-long drumbeat from party leaders to get him...
Despite winning the Democratic primary in Maine last month, Senate candidate Graham Platner could be off the ballot in November after a Politico story published on Monday detailed a woman accusing him of sexual assault. July 13 is the deadline for Platner to withdraw from the race and have a replacement, according to the Maine...
