JOE BIDEN DENIES EVERYTHING. Former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden appeared this week on The View. If you had to boil it down to headlines, there would be two: First, the Bidens both denied reports of the former president’s senility or cognitive difficulties, and second, he blamed voter sexism and racism for […]

A federal judge issued a ruling Friday ordering a temporary pause in the Trump administration's plan to slash various agencies and fire tens of thousands of federal workers. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of California issued a two-week pause, arguing that while the president can institute changes to federal agencies and conduct mass layoffs, he...

President Trump said that he signed an executive order Friday to formally launch a self-deportation program to further incentivize migrants living in the United States illegally to leave the country.  “We are making it as easy as possible for illegal aliens to leave America. Any illegal alien can simply show up at an airport and...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced Friday that she will not jump into Georgia’s 2026 Senate race and challenge incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.).  The Georgia Republican firebrand, who was elected to Congress in 2020, slammed the Senate, arguing that not much gets done in the upper chamber and that donors hold too much sway...

{beacon} {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story  FEMA leader axed after contradicting Noem, Trump The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was fired Thursday, one day after telling lawmakers he did not think it was in the public’s interest to eliminate the agency. © Greg Nash A...

{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story  New Pentagon directives ban certain books, affirmative action at military academies  The Pentagon has ordered military leaders to remove and review all library books that relate to diversity, anti-racism or gender issues within the next...

The House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over taxes, on Friday evening released partial text for its portion of President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” and scheduled a meeting to debate and advance the legislation for Tuesday at 2 p.m. The proposal had been highly anticipated, but the text released Friday appears to leave...

State Rep. Cole Hefner says SB17 is the nation's "strongest bill" against its four biggest adversaries: China, Iran, Russia and North Korea.

A suspect arrested outside the U.S. Capitol in January with Molotov cocktails and a knife has been charged with the attempted assassination Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday said that going forward admissions to military academies will be based exclusively on merit and race, sex and ethnicity will not be considered.