Month: December 2025

A former InfoWars host who President Trump pardoned after he was convicted for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol slammed the president’s national address on Wednesday and said his “swagger” is gone. Owen Shroyer started off his commentary on Trump’s address by calling it the president’s “worst speech yet”…

President Trump on Thursday announced plans for a “Patriot Games” next year that will pit top high school athletes from across the country against one another as part of a series of events to mark 250 years since the nation’s founding. Trump announced the launch of Freedom 250, an organization that will lead the administration’s…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) slammed President Trump’s Wednesday national address as a deflection from rising health care costs and grocery bills. “All those words when he could’ve just said: f‑‑‑ your health care and your grocery bills. Get a third job, peasant,” Newsom’s press office wrote in a Wednesday night post on the social…

The Treasury Department announced new sanctions Thursday targeting 29 vessels that the U.S. says are part of Iran’s “shadow fleet,” used to transport oil and petroleum products through deceptive shipping practices. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the 29 entities, along with their respective management firms, which “have transported hundreds of…

Daniel Dale made multiple appearances on the network to cover the litany of falsehoods President Donald Trump delivered in Wednesday’s speech.

President Trump’s “warrior dividends” of $1,776 will use funding appropriated for military housing subsidies under the administration’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The money for the one-time checks intended for U.S. service members, which the president announced during his Wednesday night national address, will come from the $2.9 billion Congress approved this summer to…

“The charisma was gone. The aura was gone, the swagger was gone, and the message was stale,” pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Owen Shroyer said.

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 68 more photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) deadline to release all of its information on the disgraced financier on Dec. 19. Some photos show lines from the Vladimir Nabokov novel…

President Trump is signing an executive order Thursday from the Oval Office that will drop marijuana into a lower drug classification — but it will not equate to full legalization. The move continues efforts begun by the Biden administration, which started the process to make marijuana a Schedule III drug in 2024 but did not…

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to speed up the rescheduling of marijuana from Schedule I to the less severe Schedule III, with the stated goal of expanding cannabis research. The executive order will direct the attorney general to expedite the completion of the rescheduling process. The Biden administration had begun the rescheduling…

Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday bashed the GOP’s handling of Jack Smith’s testimony to congressional investigators earlier this week, saying Republicans were afraid to allow the former special counsel to appear in public. “They didn’t have the guts to put him out there publicly, because they knew that he’d flay them, he’d destroy them,” Holder…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday that the Kennedy Center board voted unanimously to rename the building the Trump-Kennedy Center. “I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the…

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has decided against releasing its postmortem of the party’s 2024 losses it looks to build on 2025 momentum and take back power in Congress during next year’s midterms.  “Here’s our North Star: does this help us win?” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement shared with The Hill on…

Democratic strategist James Carville on Wednesday said that Republicans are no longer “scared” of President Trump after four GOP House members on Wednesday sided with Democrats to sign a discharge petition forcing a vote to extend expiring ObamaCare subsidies. “Just today, four Republicans broke out to bring up the subsidy vote on the House floor,”…

12:30 Report is The Hill’s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. It’s Thursday. Christmas is one week from today! 🎄 In today’s issue: • Inflation unexpectedly cools in November • Trump rattles off 2025 wins • Service members’ $1,776 ‘Warrior Dividends’ • Trump’s potential marijuana announcement • Pope Leo signals change in N.Y.’s next archbishop 🎤 IN…

RFK Jr. announced several proposals Thursday morning that would ban Medicaid and Medicare funds from going to hospitals that treat trans youth.

Political commentator Debra Lea got pushback for her no-holds-barred approval of Trump’s address to the nation.

Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins (D) in a Wednesday evening interview on NewsNation slammed the Trump administration over immigration enforcement. “Just stop it,” Higgins told host Chris Cuomo. “It’s bad for our economy, it’s horrifying for our families, and we cannot proceed this way as a nation.” Since President Trump returned to office, the Department of…

A little less than half of registered voters believe President Trump should pay more attention to high prices, according to a new Fox News poll. When asked to pick a single issue from a list that Trump ought to “be paying MORE attention to right now,” 42 percent of respondents said “high prices,” with “health…

Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson on Wednesday defended his photos of White House aides taken for a profile on chief of staff Susie Wiles, after the both story and his images were met with criticism from Trump administration officials and allies. “It is curious that the internet is shocked that I would not retouch the…

Alan Dershowitz, the former lawyer of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said he told President Trump it’s “not clear” whether it would be constitutional for him to serve a third term in the White House. Dershowitz, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, said he gave Trump a draft copy of his upcoming book…

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) wants House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to chart a different course in 2026. “I hope that the Speaker takes a different approach in the new year, where the House can sort of put itself back in the driver’s seat when it comes to the issues that really matter to folks,” Kiley…

President Trump announced Wednesday night that military service members will receive checks for $1,776, a nod to the nation’s founding year. The news came during the president’s national address, which focused on affordability and served as a wrap-up for the first year of his second term in office. “Because of tariffs, along with the just…

A federal judge reversed the terminations of hundreds of government employees Wednesday, ruling that the Trump administration likely violated the terms of the funding deal that ended the longest-ever government shutdown.  That deal prohibits agencies from carrying out a reduction in force (RIF) until Jan. 30.  The Trump administration asserted that RIFs announced prior to the shutdown could still move ahead, but U.S. District…
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will deliver remarks Thursday on new federal guidance related to health care for minors. The remarks come after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a draft rule that would pause federal funding for hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for minors. Kennedy is expected…