Three days before last week’s elections, the once-trenchant Saturday Night Live devoted its “Cold Opening” skit to poking fun at Zohran Mamdani, now New York mayor-elect, for “smiling so much my face hurts.” The joke was that Mamdani’s permanent grin is false, an artifice he uses to appear relatable. Well, SNL is no longer the […]

Practically speaking, the redistricting competition is a loser for Democrats.

The federal government starts the process of reopening on Thursday after a record 43-day shutdown ended. President Trump signed the House-passed funding measure bill late Wednesday. Six Democrats voted with Republicans to end the shutdown. Many federal workers will start receiving paychecks on Saturday. But both the U.S. air traffic system and federal food assistance...

The first wave of federal workers will start receiving paychecks on Saturday as the government begins to reopen after a record-long shutdown. A senior administration official told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation that paychecks will start going out this weekend and the administration aims to pay all federal workers by Wednesday. A memo, obtained by...

In the nuclear age, restraint is not a sign of weakness but a strategic necessity.

Auto loan delinquencies among subprime borrowers just hit a record high in data going back to 1993.

According to the survey, 97% of participants could not tell a difference between clips of AI-generated and human-made music.

That claim does not stand up to scrutiny.

Jackson, 84, was admitted to a local hospital by police escort in an effort to possibly manage what sources called a regular illness.

“There are two types of people on the battlefield — the quick and the dead.” This Army saying is instilled in basic training then reinforced throughout one’s military career. Until last month, Ukraine was "the quick" in its defensive war against Russia. Kyiv, since day one of the war, has understood that to be quick requires...