President Trump’s push to expand and consolidate power is ramping up on multiple fronts, even as the government shutdown holds center stage on Capitol Hill. Trump’s actions are sharpening critics’ fears about creeping authoritarianism. The shutdown and Trump’s expansive use of power are interlinked in some respects. Trump has sought new ways to ratchet up...
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’s (R) gubernatorial campaign rolled out an ad tying her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, to the fallout over leaked text messages from Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones. The ad opens with a series of clips from news anchors about Jones’s unearthed 2022 text messages from Jones calling for the then-statehouse...
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, said on Sunday that federal layoffs will take place if President Trump decides that negotiations are going nowhere. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the NEC director signaled Republicans were far from willing to negotiate their position to end the government shutdown...
With easy access to photos, videos and personal information, a cybercriminal can create fraudulent accounts and donation campaigns — especially now, in an era of on-demand generative AI, deepfake apps, and voice cloning software.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Trump administration officials “want to create the warzone” in Chicago to send in more National Guard troops. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Pritzker condemned the nighttime raid in Chicago, saying it’s “emblematic” of what the Trump administration is trying to do. “This raid at this...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that this is the “closest we’ve come” to securing the release of all Israeli hostages, but warned of “pitfalls” amid peace negotiations. “This is the closest we’ve come to getting all of the hostages released, every single one.”,” Rubio said on ABC’s This Week. On Friday, Hamas partially...
An armed woman was shot after driving her vehicle into federal agents in Broadview, Ill., on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. According to a DHS statement obtained by NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, the woman, Marimar Martinez, rammed agents from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). Martinez was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,...
Shutdowns in Washington are a form of political catharsis that relieve tension but solve nothing, and the country is left anxious and stuck in the same cycle of venting without progress.
President Trump is calling for Univision to return to YouTube TV, saying its recent removal is “VERY BAD” for the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms. “I hope Univision, a great and very popular Hispanic Network, can get BACK onto the very amazing Google/YouTube,” the president said late Saturday on his Truth Social platform. “It...
