Federal appeals court judges seemed inclined to bless President Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard to quell unrest in Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, suggesting that the administration is on solid legal ground.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that Congress does not yet need to weigh in on potential U.S. intervention in the Israel-Iran war, dismissing a Senate Democrat's plan to force a vote on a war powers resolution as "getting the cart ahead of the horse."
A federal judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a policy requiring identity documents to reflect an individual’s sex “at conception” to all transgender, nonbinary and intersex Americans who want to change the sex designation on their passports. A previous ruling, handed down in April, had ordered the State Department...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) criticized the Trump administration’s use of the military, saying the U.S. is turning into “one of the worst countries.” In an interview late last week, Omar noted the deployment of U.S. troops to quell protests in Los Angeles took place in the same week that the administration held the military parade,...
President Trump is becoming ever more emphatic in his backing of Israel’s attack on Iran, with the chances rising by the hour that he will greenlight direct U.S. involvement. The president discussed the crisis in the White House Situation Room with his closest advisers on Tuesday afternoon. Afterward, according to the Israeli news organization Haaretz,...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Inside the Senate GOP plan to advance Trump's agenda The Senate Finance Committee's portion of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” contains some of the thorniest provisions and could set them on a collision course with the...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story US military readies for Iran involvement The U.S. military is positioning itself to potentially join Israel’s assault on Iran, as President Trump weighs direct action against Tehran to destroy its nuclear program. Trump on Tuesday urged...
President Trump will sign another executive order this week extending the deadline for TikTok's parent company to divest the video sharing app, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. "As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark," Leavitt said in a statement shared with The Hill. "This...