A new watchdog report points to a peril Mayor Zohran Mamdani refuses to see: New York City can't actually afford to bleed its golden geese even more just to...
Republican governors in two southern states are calling state lawmakers back for special sessions next week to consider new congressional maps following a landmark Supreme Court decision that narrowed the scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Alabama lawmakers are set to convene in Montgomery starting Monday to discuss potentially moving the state’s May 19...
The Defense Department has estimated that the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran about $4.8 billion in oil revenue, a Pentagon official familiar with the assessment told The Hill late Friday. The blockade, which was instituted more than two weeks ago, is one of the actions President Trump has used to inflict pressure on Iran...
Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) said on Friday that the Trump administration would need to seek congressional approval before renewing military action against Iran, after officials asserted the 60-day war powers clock stopped running when the ceasefire took effect. “The purpose of the War Powers Act was to assert the constitutional responsibility of Congress to declare...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sought medical attention after feeling ill at a March event in Philadelphia, the court confirmed Friday. The rare statement about the justice's health comes after CNN reported the incident. The outlet said he was taken to a hospital. "Out of an abundance of caution, he agreed with his security detail’s recommendation to...
A retired master sergeant in the Air Force on Wednesday pleaded guilty to inflating the cost of information technology contracts for the Pacific Air Forces by at least $37 million to enrich himself and co-conspirators, according to the Department of Justice. Alan Hayward James, 51, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bribery and...
A federal judge on Friday said he won't reconsider his decision blocking Justice Department subpoenas of the Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of Washington’s federal trial court, said the government "did not come close" to persuading him to reconsider his ruling that quashed two subpoenas...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to boost security at the NFL draft set to take place in Pittsburgh later this month as the conflict in Iran persists. “This is the first time since 1948 that the NFL will host the Draft in Pittsburgh. It is expected to draw...
President Trump released his budget request for fiscal 2027 on Friday morning, including a whopping $1.5 trillion ask for the Pentagon. This year’s defense budget request is a $441 billion increase from the $1 trillion approved by Congress last year. The request includes $1.1 trillion in “base discretionary” spending and $350 billion for “critical Administration...
The opioid crisis has resulted in over 700,000 overdose deaths since its beginning, and in response, pharmaceutical companies and distributors have agreed to roughly $57 billion in national opioid settlements, but a report has raised concerns about how some jurisdictions are using these funds, suggesting that transparency and accountability are needed to ensure the money is used to save lives and strengthen recovery.
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) on Thursday said he will “immediately” look into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent decision to fire Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George. “That would be very surprising to me,” McCormick told Newsmax's Ed Henry, seemingly perplexed by the news. “I would look into it immediately because those are people I...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Thursday denied a claim that Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired for leaking information to him about a decade-old investigation into his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. “The attorney general did not tip us off. No one in her orbit tipped us off,” Swalwell said in an interview on MS...
The White House on Friday is expected to send its 2027 budget proposal to Congress. It is expected to include a major boost to defense spending, as much as $1.5 trillion, with about $350 billion funded via reconciliation, an official with the Office of Management and Budget tells The Hill. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth carried...
The U.S. job market accelerated in March, adding far more jobs than expected after a major February decline. U.S. employment grew by 178,000 jobs last month, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The March job boost came in far higher than the gain of roughly 60,000 jobs expected by economists, according to...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday that Pam Bondi's ouster from the Justice Department was not related to the Trump administration's release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I have never heard President Trump say anything that the attorney general was, that anything that happened to her had anything to do...
