Attorney General Pam Bondi rebuffed a request from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) to turn around and address victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who were in the audience of a House Judiciary Committee hearing, resulting in a shouting match during which the attorney general accused the lawmaker of “theatrics.” Jayapal used her questioning to criticize…
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Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) will give remarks Wednesday afternoon after a grand jury failed to indict the duo and four other lawmakers in connection to a video released last year urging service members and intelligence officials to defy illegal orders. The controversial video, which was lambasted by the Trump administration as…
J.P. Cooney, a former top deputy to ex-special counsel Jack Smith, launched a campaign on Wednesday as a Democrat for Congress in Virginia. “I’m running for Congress because never before in the history of our country has a president of the United States posed a graver threat to our Democracy, our rule of law, and…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) celebrated Wednesday after a grand jury failed to indict six Democratic lawmakers in connection to a controversial video urging service members and intelligence officials to defy illegal orders. “Yesterday, a Grand Jury of everyday Americans rejected a baseless attempt to indict six Members of Congress and the United States…
Russia on Wednesday promised to observe the limits of the nuclear arms control treaty with the United States that expired last week, but only if Washington does the same, according to Moscow’s top diplomat. The Kremlin will adhere to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) “as long as the U.S. doesn’t exceed these…
Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects an evolution in how Gallup…
President Trump said Tuesday he raised tariffs on Switzerland after a phone call with the country’s former president, saying he did not approve of “the way she talked.” Trump told Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow that he once had an “emergency call from, I believe, the prime minister of Switzerland, and she was very aggressive. Nice,…
Federal officials will speak before a House Appropriations Committee panel on Wednesday morning on potential impacts of a looming lapse in funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Senate Democrats have signaled that negotiations with the White House to reform DHS haven’t made enough progress for them to support another short-term funding agreement. Senate…
President Trump on Tuesday endorsed embattled Rep. Cory Mills’s (R-Fla.) reelection bid. Trump praised the Florida congressman as an “America First Patriot” as he offered his “Complete and Total Endorsement” for another term in the House. “A Successful Entrepreneur, and Brave U.S. Army Combat Veteran and Bronze Star recipient, Cory knows what is required to…
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) slammed the Trump administration after a grand jury did not indict her over a video she made with other congressional Democrats urging members of the military to refuse following any illegal orders. “Today, it was a grand jury of anonymous American citizens who upheld the rule of law and determined this…
Attorney General Pam Bondi will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning to testify on oversight of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and is likely to field questions about the Trump administration’s investigation of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The DOJ released its final batch of documents late last month, including heavy redactions….
Trump’s decision to undercut the Clean Air Act has the potential to harm millions of Americans, including many of the red-state voters who got him elected.
Trump’s tariffs amounted to an average tax increase of $1,000 per U.S. household in 2025, according to a new analysis.
A grand jury on Tuesday refused to indict a coalition of Democratic lawmakers over their participation in a controversial “illegal orders” video last fall. The failed federal indictment was pursued by the office of U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, as first reported by The New York Times. The lawmakers urged military…
Eighteen Democratic governors announced they would boycott a traditional dinner at the White House.
Charley Crockett says his industry peers should pay attention to a musician who “hasn’t forgotten his heritage.”
French President Emmanuel Macron has accused President Trump of seeking the European Union’s “dismemberment.” Macron called the Trump administration “openly anti-European,” said it has displayed “contempt” when it comes to the EU and has wanted “its dismemberment” in a recent interview with multiple European outlets, according to the Financial Times. “When there’s a clear act…
Lucy Harrison, a 23-year-old British woman, was in the United States visiting her father with her boyfriend.
Top White House officials are trying to prepare Americans for a lackluster January jobs report this week as President Trump kicks off 2026 under intense economic pressure. Trump’s top economic advisers have said in recent days that the January jobs report, scheduled to be released Wednesday, is unlikely to show a strong gain, citing high…
The 33-year-old grandson of President JFK says he’s running for office to represent people who are “sick and tired” of Trump and his chaos.
A document in the Epstein files reveals a 2006 phone call from Trump to the Palm Beach Police chief claiming that “everyone” knew what Epstein had been doing.
Kurt Olsen, who helped Donald Trump promote election fraud lies in 2020, ordered the FBI raid on the Georgia county’s election offices.
Nicaragua’s government on Sunday blocked Cuban migrants from entering the country without a visa, cutting off a main point of access from the Caribbean island to the U.S. as tensions escalate following the fall of Cuban ally and Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro. Director General of Migration and Foreigners Juan Emilio Rivas Benítez signed off on…
The scientific finding has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that he had a “positive” conversation with President Trump after the president threatened to stop a bridge between the U.S. and Canada from being opened. “So, it was a positive conversation, it’s a big game today and we’re going to win,” Carney told reporters, referencing a U.S.-Canada Olympic…