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The “Tonight Show” host even pulled in the Vatican for his punch line.

The Federal Reserve is on track to keep interest rates steady Wednesday and defy the Trump administration’s controversial efforts to reshape the independent central bank. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to leave its baseline borrowing rate unchanged, a move likely to infuriate President Trump as he faces increasing backlash from the…

President Trump’s executive order to prevent Wall Street investors from purchasing single-family homes is the administration’s most ambitious attempt to address the state of the housing market. The president argued that Wall Street investors have bought a “growing share” of single-family homes and directed his administration to take steps to crack down on the practice.…
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The “Late Show” host spotted an awkward moment in an interview, where the president addressed questions about his health. 

The president sneered at the journalist and played up to the audience at a restaurant in Iowa.

The vice president’s “cafeteria Catholicism must continue to be repudiated by people of faith,” the opinion piece read.

The late night host torched a key claim the president frequently makes. 

Donald Trump’s presidency is being eaten alive by one thing, said CNN’s chief data analyst.

Italian politicians strongly criticised the presence of ICE in the country, highlighting how the image of the U.S. has been tarnished in recent months.

“It feels real now,” he said. 

The president put a twist on one of his classic speech anecdotes. 

The statements come as tech workers have urged executives, who’ve been largely quiet, to speak out on the subject. 

The Oscar-winning actor slammed President Donald Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for their deadly immigration crackdown.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) on Tuesday became the second Republican senator to call for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to step down over her handling of the Minneapolis shootings. In remarks to reporters, Murkowski called for accountability from the secretary, criticizing Noem for the “rhetoric” she deployed in the aftermath of Saturday’s fatal shooting…

Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs has filed a protest with the U.S. Embassy after the attempt. 

A committee of Florida state senators on Tuesday unanimously advanced legislation to rename Palm Beach International Airport to “Donald J. Trump International Airport.” The bill, SB 706, leaves the names of all other airports the same but preempts the authority to rename airports to the state, not to local officials. The bill resembles a similar…

Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Doomsday Clock ticks four second closer to midnight The world slipped further toward the abyss over the past year, with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Tuesday moving the hands of the famed Doomsday Clock four…

Fewer Republicans say in a new poll that they have confidence in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. In the Economist/YouGov survey, conducted this past weekend, 60 percent of Republicans say they trust ICE, including 31 percent who say they have a…

Some people thought that the president accidentally made a great campaign ad for the Democrats.

Georgia state Rep. David Clark, who’s running for Georgia lieutenant governor, is proposing to rename Sawnee Mountain after President Trump as Republicans vie for the president’s endorsement in the crowded GOP primary. “President @realDonaldTrump is one of the most transformative presidents in our nation’s history,” Clark said in a Tuesday post on the social platform X….

President Trump’s support from independent voters dropped to a new low across both terms in office, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The survey, conducted over the weekend, shows Trump’s net job approval among independents at negative 40 percentage points, with 27 percent approving and 67 percent disapproving. That marks a significant drop from the…

More than half of Americans have “very little” confidence in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a poll taken in the days before and after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis. In The Economist/YouGov poll, 55 percent of respondents said they had “very little” confidence in ICE, while…

Political commentator Joe Scarborough on Tuesday slammed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for “lying nonstop” about two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens involving federal officers in Minneapolis, calling it “Orwellian.” “The repeated lies, and people use the word ‘Orwellian’ … they overuse the word,” the host of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” told co-host Jonathan…

Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia (R), co-founder of Latinas for Trump, blasted President Trump’s immigration crackdown, warning that he “will lose the midterms” because of homeland security adviser Stephen Miller. “I do think that he will lose the midterms because of Stephen Miller,” Garcia told the New York Times in an interview published Tuesday. Though…

Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) said Tuesday she asked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to pause Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in her home state and in Minnesota. “I asked her to pause the operations in both Maine and Minnesota so that they could be reviewed and far more targeted in their scope,” Collins,…