Senate Democrats on Friday blocked a bill to pay federal workers who've gone without compensation during the 38-day government shutdown, after Republicans rejected Democrats' offer to reopen the government with a one-year extension of enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration crossed First Amendment lines when it took over employees' email accounts to force their messages to include language blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

A federal judge on Friday ruled President Trump unlawfully called up and planned to deploy Oregon’s National Guard to Portland, the most decisive blow yet to his bid to send troops into Democratic-led cities where protests have centered on federal immigration facilities.  U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, permanently blocked the president from sending Oregon’s soldiers into the city after determining that the president ran afoul...

Voters who preferred former Vice President Harris to be president could not necessarily name the current leader of the Democratic Party, as a new survey suggests. Politico's latest poll, conducted by the London-based consultancy organization Public First, found that Harris voters, in the days leading up to the 2025 elections, could not find consensus around...

President Trump said on Friday that the United States will not be part of the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa, calling it "a total disgrace." "Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Hegseth promises faster weapons buying with sweeping reforms Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled a sweeping overhaul to how the Pentagon buys weapons, a restructuring aimed at having the U.S. military more quickly acquire new...