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The “Late Show” host said this “can only mean one thing.”

The “Daily Show” host said Trump’s supporters are finally getting to see the other side of the president.

It’s “beginning to unravel” for a damning reason, said the famed economist.

John Berman reminded Rep. Mike Lawler why the network was covering what he described as a “colossal waste of time.”

The White House press secretary’s claim about how the president spends his time is being met with disbelief.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Monday said whether President Trump wants Ukraine to win the war against Russia is an “open-ended question.” “I think it’s still an open-ended question, because — just because Donald Trump is saying the right thing in the last 24 hours, it doesn’t make the last six months go away,” Moulton…
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The death of Jaime Alanís underscores the dangers of such raids and the trauma they cause immigrant communities.

Harry Enten flagged how the president is doing “bad to downright terrible” in the polls on this issue.

The president recounted how the Club World Cup trophy ended up in the Oval Office during an interview at the tournament finals on Sunday.

Experts in constitutional law and political science say what’s most concerning about the president’s recent attack on the comedian, who moved to Ireland in January.

President Trump moved to a more aggressive footing with Russia on Monday, promising to funnel weapons through NATO allies to Ukraine and threatening to hammer Moscow’s trading partners with sanctions. Even though there is a lengthy hiatus of 50 days before those sanctions would take effect, it’s still a notable shift from the president. Trump…
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday to allow the Trump administration to move forward with mass layoffs at the Department of Education, a move supported by President Trump-appointed leadership at the federal agency but feared by education supporters.   The 6-3 ruling along ideological lines helps Trump partially fulfill his campaign promise of dismantling the Education…
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Democrats are slamming former President Biden’s response to a series of investigations of him by Republicans on Capitol Hill and the Trump administration, arguing he is again taking the GOP bait to the detriment of his own party. At a time when Democrats have sought to go on offense over President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”…
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“[E]ither way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave,” she wrote in a blistering dissent.

A single moment from a right-wing student summit over the weekend will probably make Donald Trump angry.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has called for a heightened federal drone defense strategy, following reports of drone sightings in the Northeast toward the end of 2024. “I am writing to you with respect to the critical need for federal action regarding the threat posed by unmanned aerial systems (UAS), commonly known as drones,”…
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Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who have been pushing for a Russia sanctions bill, on Monday hailed President Trump’s threat of tougher sanctions on Moscow if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t wind down his country’s attacks on Ukraine in the coming weeks. “It is long overdue for the financial backers of Russia’s…
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96 <!– Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!–   The Big Story  Would markets tolerate Fed chair Scott Bessent? The possibility that President Trump could replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is spinning heads from Washington to Wall Street and…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that the Trump administration should release all of the files related to the disgraced late-financier Jeffrey Epstein, and that Congress should intervene to force that release if the administration doesn’t act on its own.  Jeffries said there’s no good reason for the Justice Department to keep those…
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Sending Ukraine offensive weapons could push Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former NATO supreme allied commander, said on Monday. Speaking ahead of the announcement of the U.S.-NATO weapons deal for Ukraine, Stavridis said he was hoping the deal would “move beyond strictly defensive weapons, such as the…
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For some strange reason, Trump’s “won’t somebody think of the unattractive billionaires” claim wasn’t exactly the rallying cry he might have expected.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday pushed back on a new report from NBC News that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees are going hungry and being fed spoiled food. “FAKE NEWS! Any claim that there is a lack of food or subprime conditions at ICE detention centers are FALSE,” DHS said in…
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The former president returned to the fundraising circuit to urge his party to “stop looking for the messiah.”

The president appears to harbor an uncharitable view of marriage.

The contradictory stories come as Trump, finally, announces new sanctions to counter Russia and more military aid to Ukraine.