South Korea is "paying very little" for the U.S. troops stationed on the Korean peninsula and the "very wealthy country" must pay more for continued American military presence there, former President and presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview released this week.

As the philosopher/baseball player Yogi Berra once (supposedly) said, it’s deja vu all over again. Student protesters are occupying the campuses of famed universities across the country. In New York, Columbia University protesters occupied administrative offices in Hamilton Hall and were cleared out by police, exactly 56 years to the day after student protesters occupied […]

President Joe Biden is not working very hard to bring American hostages in Gaza back home, but he does want to bring in refugees from Gaza who are disproportionally supportive of terrorism. The Biden administration is floating the idea of accepting Gaza refugees, a process that would require collaboration with Egypt, which is not accepting […]

Some threats simply beg to be turned into opportunities. Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi confirmed that his country’s air force intercepted several Iranian drones between April 13 and 14, helping defend against Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel. The military assistance by the Hashemite Kingdom followed a political decision to close […]

Despite the sheer craziness of the political and cultural landscape in recent months, one particularly nutty 2024 bingo-card item none of us expected began with the bizarre argument that the Nazis were somehow the victims of World War II. And now it’s morphed into the equally absurd claim that the Soviet Union was morally superior […]

Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father, summarized the political career of Benjamin Disraeli, Britain’s great 19th century Conservative prime minister, as “failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete triumph.” There is something in this sequence that parallels President Joe Biden’s half-century in politics, although in his case ultimate and complete triumph applies only […]

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed Wednesday that the central bank is pushing back its plans for rate cuts as inflation plateaus well above the bank's target. The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the central bank committee tasked with setting monetary policy, voted Wednesday to keep the federal funds rate at a range of 5.25...

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story Where RFK Jr. is on the ballot Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now qualified to be on the ballot in a few states and has gained enough signatures to make the ballot in about a half dozen...

Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Mike Turner (Ohio) are calling on the Department of Justice to open a criminal referral into former President Trump's ex-fixer, Michael Cohen, for making contradicting statements to a congressional panel in 2019. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and...

To help rebuilding and recovery efforts, I call on every country to devote 1 percent of its GDP to transform camps into incubators of hope rather than more Gazas.