The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached an all-time intraday record on Thursday, sparking a victory lap from President Trump, who is tired of getting low marks on the economy.
Members of Congress clashed Thursday over President Donald Trump's use of the National Guard in American cities, with Republicans saying the deployments were needed to fight lawlessness while Democrats called his move an extraordinary abuse of military power that violated states' rights.
Trump and his allies are mounting a final full-court press on Republican holdouts in the Indiana state Senate as the fight over new congressional maps hangs in the balance.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted CNN after reporter Kaitlan Collins pressed her on the voter concerns with the U.S. economy and said her line of questioning shows changes are needed at the cable news network. "I think the president's comments on CNN and new leadership is evidenced by my exchange with a CNN...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that President Trump does not view the U.S. seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker as an escalation toward war with Caracas. “I think the president considers the seizure of the oil tanker as effectuating the administration’s sanctions policies,” Leavitt said. When asked whether U.S. involvement in...
The House on Thursday voted to table a resolution to impeach President Trump after Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) forced a vote on the matter, scuttling the snap impeachment push with the help of Democratic leaders voting “present” rather than aiding Green with the effort. A Republican motion to table the matter easily succeeded 237-140, with the help...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday said President Trump understands "Europe's decline" and can see "that Europe has hit the wall of a long economic dead end." The remarks come after Trump last week released his National Security Strategy, which accuses the European Union of stifling "political liberty" and seeks U.S. alignment with "patriotic European...
A highly anticipated meeting at which the Trump administration was expected to reveal its plans to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been abruptly canceled. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told The Hill via email that Secretary Kristi Noem found out at 12:26 p.m. EST that the meeting was canceled....
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was accused of misleading House Homeland Security Committee members when she said she was departing a Thursday hearing early to attend another meeting that was actually canceled. It’s an assertion denied by Noem’s office, which said she only found out her meeting was canceled after she left the witness table....