Judge Juan Merchan refused Monday to delay President-elect Donald Trump's criminal sentencing, setting up a last-minute battle in the appeals courts for a reprieve before the inauguration.
President Biden's new ban on offshore drilling in his final days in office caps his drive to cement green energy policies that he hopes will trip up President-elect Trump's promise to "drill baby drill" when he takes office in two weeks.
President Biden offered his condolences to the victims of the New Orleans New Year's Day attack, calling the Louisiana city one with a tough spirit at an interfaith prayer service with victims’ families. “If there’s one thing we know, New Orleans defines strength and resilience, you define it. Whether it’s in the form of this...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story A Gaza ceasefire agreement in next 2 weeks? The US is hopeful The Biden administration says it is still hoping to secure a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in its final two weeks in the White House....
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked his followers on the social platform X, which he owns, if the U.S. “should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.” “America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government,” Musk captioned a post with a poll on X highlighted by Mediaite, with users able...
President-elect Trump will be on Capitol Hill on Wednesday at the invitation of Senate Republican leadership, according to three sources familiar with the invitation. GOP leaders haven’t released the time of the meeting, but Trump has met with Republican senators at their weekly Tuesday Republican policy lunch meeting in the past. Senate Republican Whip John...
It was routine — and that was the point. Congress certified President-elect Trump’s election victory in a smooth and relatively brief ceremony Monday. The normalcy of the occasion was a juxtapositional reminder of the events of four years before, when a mob laid siege to the Capitol, coming ominously close to keeping Trump in power...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story GOP senator says Trump pick RFK Jr. ‘wrong’ on vaccines Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), the incoming chair of the Senate HELP Committee, said Sunday that President-elect Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary is ‘wrong’ when...
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO and President Dana White will join Meta’s board of directors, the social media company announced Monday. White is part of a trio of new additions to the Meta board, alongside John Elkann, CEO of Exor and chair of Stellantis and Ferrari, and tech investor Charlie Songhurst. “Dana, John and Charlie...