Month: August 2025

California Gov. Gavin Newsom made a pretty major announcement yesterday, taking his latest stance to fight back against Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting plans in Texas and beyond.   This move comes as Republicans in Texas — with President Donald Trump’s backing — are pursuing a new congressional map that could give them as many as five…
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A federal appeals court panel on Friday overturned a judge’s block on the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), paving the way for mass layoffs to resume.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit panel voted 2-1 that employee unions and groups that use CFPB services have no…
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President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Friday that the administration is not asking D.C. police to directly enforce immigration laws, adding that they must cooperate with federal authorities. Homan’s comments come after Attorney General Pam Bondi sought to roll back the district’s sanctuary policies around undocumented migrants, including lifting the block on local police…
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Former President Obama joined a Zoom call with Texas state House Democrats on Thursday, calling the Republican redistricting effort in the state a “systematic assault on democracy.”  “What we all recognize is we can’t let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by,” Obama said.  “And my hope is that rather than have a race…
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Washington’s top legal official sought an emergency restraining order in federal court blocking a Trump administration move to put a federal official in charge of its police.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday she was ramping up pressure on 32 “sanctuary jurisdictions,” urging them to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts. “I just sent Sanctuary City letters to 32 mayors around the country and multiple governors saying, you better be abiding by our federal policies and with our federal law enforcement, because…
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President Trump on Monday tapped Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to lead the federal takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department. On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Cole would serve as “emergency police commissioner” of the nation’s capital amid the president’s deployment of National Guard soldiers and federal agents. Cole, a…
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Republican strategist Karl Rove warned President Trump about making too many promises to the American people about the quality of the economy, predicting failure to deliver could cost Republicans in the midterm elections. “On economics, Team Trump is making the same mistake as the last administration,” Rove wrote in a recent op-ed for The Wall…
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All week, Lindsey Granger and I have been discussing debating President Trump’s approach to tackling the crime problem in Washington, D.C.   Our debate mirrors a national debate taking place — Republicans are applauding Trump’s decision to send in federal troops and impose order on the crime-plagued national capital, whereas Democrats and mainstream media progressives are…
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A government surplus auction company that acquired up to $350 million in unused construction materials from President Trump’s unfinished wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is reportedly ready to return them to the U.S. government as part of a recent agreement. GovPlanet was set to sell unused steel panels, bollards and concrete after former President Biden…
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As President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the hopes of ending the war in Ukraine, his long-held dream of nabbing a Nobel Peace Prize has an unlikely supporter: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In a recent podcast appearance, Clinton said she would support Trump for the coveted prize if he were…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of using a drone strike to “sabotage” upcoming peace talks between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine launched an attack on Russia Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring over a dozen more — a day before the high-stakes meeting between…
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South Korea’s leftists and rightists held competing demonstrations in the capital city of Seoul today, which is the nation’s National Liberation Day.   This year, the country celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of Japanese rule. The day also is the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Korea, or South Korea.   The crowds…
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President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are hours away from their Friday face to face meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.  Both leaders will be accompanied by a host of other officials for the high-profile summit that could determine the future of the Russia-Ukraine war, a conflict Trump vowed to end during his campaign last year.…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) criticized Border Patrol as “sick and pathetic” after armed agents made a show of force outside the governor’s Thursday press conference to announce retaliatory redistricting measures. “It just said everything you need to know about the setting that we’re under,” Newsom said after the event. ” That they chose the…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will benefit the most from Friday’s high stakes meeting with President Trump in Alaska. “I believe that Putin will benefit from this, because what he is seeking, frankly, is photographs,” Zelensky told a small group of reporters at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv, including NewsNation’s Robert Sherman. “He…
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“If President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him” for the honor, the former U.S. secretary of state said.

You could practically hear the cheering on Thursday as critics of President Trump finally got what they’ve waited months for — some indication that tariffs might (finally!) drive prices higher.  Yesterday’s Producer Price Index report showed wholesale prices jumped 0.9 percent over the last month, the biggest gain since June 2022. It followed another benign…
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On the menu: Classical on the rocks; Newsom unveils Texas revenge package; Brown in; Where do you put 653 House members?; A dumpling for a bear  There are many kinds of bias in the news business, but few as durable and reliable as New Yorkism: the outsized place that news happening in America’s media capital…
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Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday tapped the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) chief to serve as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” a move to wrest power from the district’s current police chief amid the Trump administration’s law enforcement takeover. DEA Administrator Terry Cole will now assume “all of the powers and duties” of D.C. Police Chief…
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In today’s issue: ▪ Trump: Agenda with Putin ‘like chess’   ▪ AG Bondi federalizes DC police control    ▪ States’ redistricting arms race escalates ▪ Trump shores up Social Security support Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Close Thank you for…
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President Trump is set to depart Washington just after the sun rises, headed west for his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in years and one that will set the tone for the future of peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war. The meeting at an Air Force base just outside Anchorage, Alaska, came together…
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President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday could shape the future of Moscow’s more than three-year war in Ukraine — for better or worse. Trump has made ending the war a priority focus in his second term, but Putin has been a brick wall, refusing any concessions toward peace and only increasing…
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The faculty of the University of California scored a victory for the Los Angeles branch campus against the White House, the first win for a university individually targeted by the federal government.    A judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of the more than $550 million the president paused after the federal government found the University of California,…
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President Trump says he’s open to following through on former President Biden’s push to reschedule marijuana, a move that comes up short of legalization but would still provide a major boost for the cannabis industry.  Trump reportedly told donors this month he was considering rescheduling marijuana, and in a press conference this week he said…
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