Justice Clarence Thomas orders left-wing voting rights activists in Alabama to defend a congressional districting map that helped Democrats flip a deep-red House seat in 2024.
President Trump met with European leaders on Monday to discuss the war in Ukraine alongside the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, amid a push from the White House for an end to the conflict. Among those who participated in the meeting included German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian...
CHICAGO — Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Monday lauded “collegiality” in the legal profession, hailing it as what lets the judicial system work well despite its inherently combative nature. She said she’s been “thinking a lot lately” about getting along and bridging disagreements. “It occurs to me that law is a profession that,...
President Trump and European leaders met for a one-of-a-kind summit at the White House on Monday to push toward a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. But by the end of a marathon day of meetings, details on what such an agreement might entail remained elusive. One major bit of news did emerge: Trump announced...
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is joining the Justice Department as the co-deputy director of the FBI, he announced Monday. Bailey is set to share duties as deputy FBI director with Dan Bongino, a staunch Trump ally whose future in the role came into question amid clashes over the case of the disgraced financier Jeffrey...
The Trump administration restored a public database that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies following a recent order by a federal appeals court. Public access to the data was restored over the weekend, not long after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the website be restored in...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday pressed for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine before President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet. “I can’t imagine that the next meeting would take place without a ceasefire. So let’s work on that, and let’s try to put pressure on Russia because...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story A GOP battle to watch this funding season The return of earmarks to the annual government funding bills has sparked a battle among Republicans on Capitol Hill, pitting fiscal hawks against members of the Appropriations Committees...
President Trump met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday as the search for an end to the three-and-a-half-year war intensifies. Major European leaders also jetted in for the meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were all in...
President Trump said Monday he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin following meetings at the White House with top European leaders and began arranging a potential bilateral meeting involving Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump said the meeting between Putin and Zelensky would take place at a time and location to be determined. It...
The Trump administration is ordering officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to take a more "holistic" approach when determining whether to award U.S. citizenship to immigrants, saying they must weigh more factors in determining whether an applicant has “good moral character.” The Friday memo from USCIS said officers must now weigh not just any disqualifying...
Iowa State Rep. J.D. Scholten (D) announced Monday he is suspending his campaign for U.S. Senate and endorsing fellow State Rep. Josh Turek (D) in his bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Joni Ernst (R). “Today I am suspending my campaign. I know this may come as a surprise but I made this decision because I...
