President Trump unleashed a blistering personal attack Wednesday on Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner, calling him a "low-level thug" and a "cheap, no-good person" with a criminal record unlike anything he claims to have seen in American political history.
The Department of Justice said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission violated federal civil rights law by issuing guidelines that pressured companies to make race-based decisions in the workplace or risk a lawsuit.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks is stepping down from his role after nearly a year and a half with the agency, sources told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network. Banks announced his retirement in an email to colleagues Thursday, describing the position as “the honor of my lifetime.” “After over 37 years in public service...
Emily Michael, the Pentagon‘s top technology officer, and others will testify before a House Armed Services Committee panel on Thursday afternoon about the U.S. military's digital posture. The hearing comes just two weeks after eight major artificial intelligence firms agreed to deploying their artificial intelligence systems within the Defense Department‘s classified networks. That news followed a...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday said there are "a lot of people" in Congress who smoke marijuana. TMZ caught up with Omar, the co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, in Washington, D.C., to ask about changes to medical and recreational marijuana research. She was asked if she thought it was odd that no members...
The London convictions of two individuals under the UK National Security Act for assisting a foreign intelligence service highlight the need for the U.S. to pass the HKETO Certification Act, which would require the president to annually certify whether the three U.S. HKETOs still deserve their diplomatic privileges.
Vice President Vance will give remarks from Maine on Thursday morning as the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to combat fraud. The vice president, tapped by President Trump as the "fraud czar," is also the chair of the White House task force on combatting fraud in federal programs. The task force was created by...
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) returned to hosting his eponymous show on Wednesday, after he was hospitalized earlier this month for viral pneumonia. During a recent episode of “The Rudy Giuliani Show," the former mayor said that he is “in the middle of making a very, very full and complete recovery” and...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday told President Trump in Beijing ahead of their high-stakes meeting that the major question that China and the U.S. will have to answer is whether they can avoid the "Thucydides Trap." Xi asked if both countries can overcome the "Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major country...
A group of Miami residents is suing President Trump and top Florida officials over a state land donation for Trump’s future presidential library and museum, alleging the transaction is unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in the Southern District of Florida on behalf of a Miami nonprofit, several residents and a student at Miami Dade...
The House is moving ahead with a vote next week on an amended bipartisan housing bill, even after President Trump pressured the lower chamber to pass the Senate version. House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill (R-Ark.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the committee’s ranking member, on Thursday released the House's version of the “21st...
If a single statute can be used aggressively against pro-life activists under one president and against anti-ICE protesters under another, the problem is not who is wielding the weapon, but that the weapon exists.
The NAACP on Wednesday alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court that Tennessee’s new congressional map intentionally discriminates on the basis of race. The legal action follows lawmakers’ decision to carve out the state’s only majority-Black district through a Republican-friendly map that threatens the status of the lone Democrat in Tennessee’s nine-member delegation. Several Southern states moved to...
