A super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for Senate is airing television ads in Palm Beach, Fla., where President Trump is spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort, as his endorsement in a competitive primary runoff hangs in the balance. Lone Star Liberty PAC came out with a new television ad on...
The war with Iran entered its third week on Saturday, with military strikes, retaliatory attacks and economic disruption roiling the Middle East as President Trump sends mixed signals about how close the U.S. is to achieving its objectives and how long the conflict could last. More than 2,000 people have been killed across the region...
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed a Texas-based oil and gas company Friday to restore operations in waters off southern California that were damaged by a 2015 oil spill, invoking the Defense Production Act.
Reporters Without Borders unveiled a new room in the Uncensored Library, a virtual library within Minecraft created as a loophole for journalists to disseminate articles censored in their home countries.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing a wave of backlash from many in the conservative media ecosystem following her testimony this week before the House Judiciary Committee about the Department of Justice's handling of the Epstein files. During a contentious hearing on Wednesday, Bondi sparred with lawmakers over the release of the files and beat...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Thursday dismissed an insult directed toward him by Attorney General Pam Bondi during a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing this week, in which she called him a “washed-up, loser lawyer.” “Hey, I’m not a washed-up lawyer. I’m a washed-up law professor,” Raskin joked when asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on...
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) is demanding confirmation from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that its investigation into her participation in the “illegal orders” video is over after a grand jury failed to indict her and several other lawmakers earlier this month. In a Thursday letter obtained by Punchbowl News, lawyer Preet Bharara asked Attorney General...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Harvard University on Friday, accusing it of withholding data the Trump administration wants to determine if the school is complying with the Supreme Court decision to ban affirmative action in higher education admissions. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, says Harvard has dodged giving the documents for more than 10 months. “Under President...
President Trump’s nomination of Jeremy Carl to oversee the U.S. in international organizations is in doubt over opposition from a key Republican senator, who pointed to Carl’s past statements on Israel and Jews as disqualifying. Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) is signaling he will block Carl’s nomination advancing out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Curtis’s...
The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday gave the state the green light to go forward with a special election to put Democrats’ redistricting plan before voters this spring. “Today the Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed what we already know, Virginians will have the final say. The redistricting referendum on April 21 will move forward,” Virginia...
[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 a.m. ET at TheHill.com as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] We know that President Trump doesn’t like pollsters, or at least not the ones that produce unfavorable results about him....
Democrat legislators and governors apparently cannot imagine trying to attract people, as opposed to driving them away. New York provides an excellent case study.
A rainbow Pride flag is once again flying over Stonewall National Monument in New York City, days after the LGBTQ symbol was removed from the historic site due to a federal order from President Trump, according to local outlets. Hundreds of people, including local leaders, rallied at the site on Thursday, defiantly re-hoisting the...
Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ DHS funding set to run out Saturday ▪ Trump defends embattled Cabinet members ▪ Top Wall Street lawyer resigns over Epstein ties ▪ Climate change endangerment finding overturned Lawmakers left Washington Thursday afternoon without plans to vote on a deal to avert a funding lapse at the...
