IN TODAY'S ISSUE Trump seizes stage from Biden President-elect Trump’s inauguration isn’t for another four weeks, but he is already seizing the reins of power as President Biden keeps a low profile during the final days of his presidency. Lawmakers told The Hill’s Alexander Bolton that while Trump dictated last week’s negotiations on Capitol Hill...
A handful of conservative House Republicans were voicing concerns about Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to President-elect Trump even before last week’s government funding fiasco, multiple sources on Capitol Hill and in Trump's orbit told The Hill, prompting even more uncertainty about the Louisiana Republican’s grasp on the gavel less than two weeks before the Speakership...
President Trump is sparking a new feud with Panama over an old topic: the vital maritime canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. What Trump is proposing would be a massive shift in the operation of the canal, which has been under Panamanian control since the turn of the millennium after a deal struck decades...
In the timeless children’s book, the Grinch develops and executes a nefarious scheme to steal all of the Christmas gifts and decorations in the neighboring town of Whoville. Much like the Grinch, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has teamed up with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to steal Christmas right before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the […]
We live in a generation filled with Ebenezer Scrooges, the leading character of Charles Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol. People usually hurl comparisons to Scrooge against those holding a disposition toward greed and stinginess. Ebenezer, before his reformation, thought only of money, whether that be how to earn it more or to save it better. […]
What facts are important to report in a news story about President Joe Biden commuting death sentences for 37 murderers to life imprisonment? The Associated Press’s answer is that the story must point out that during President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, executions “may have happened fast enough to have contributed to the spread of coronavirus […]
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen was in intensive care on Monday to treat multiple injuries suffered after he was thrown off a horse the day before. Doctors said he has a "very good prognosis."
House Democratic campaign committee chair Rep. Suzan DelBene says her party can win back the majority by holding Trump and Republicans "accountable" to the voters.
RNC chair Michael Whatley says President-elect Trump will play a "significant" campaign trail role supporting GOP candidates in the 2026 midterms, even though he won't be on the ballot.