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“The numbers are beyond any numbers,” Trump said in his acceptance speech.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is expressing concern about Netflix’s planned acquisition of moviemaker Warner Bros., saying the deal could raise major questions about antitrust and competitive imbalance. “This deal looks like an anti-monopoly nightmare,” Warren said Friday in a statement. “A Netflix-Warner Bros. would create one massive media giant with control of close to half…

Will the justices throw out a bedrock legal principle that has defined American citizenship for over a century?

The Indiana state House passed a new set of congressional lines Friday that would add two Republican pickup opportunities ahead of 2026. The new map, which was only introduced by Republicans just days ago, passed by a 57-41 vote and would favor Republicans in all nine congressional districts. Specifically, it would weaken the 1st Congressional…
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Thursday condemned President Trump’s remarks about Somali immigrants in which he described the group as “garbage.” Walz said it was “unprecedented for a United States president.” “We’ve got little children going to school today who their president called them garbage,” he added, according to The Associated Press. Minnesota is…

President Trump was honored Friday with the first FIFA Peace Prize, an award created by the global soccer governing body ahead of next year’s World Cup, which will take place partly in the United States. FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who has spent months ingratiating himself with Trump, bestowed the award during a drawing to determine…

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday warned in her dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court’s approval of Texas’s congressional map could violate voters’ rights enshrined in the Constitution. In her dissent with fellow liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Kagan wrote that the high court intervened “based on its perusal, over a…

The decision will hand Trump even more autocratic power than he already has.

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would codify current restrictions on AI chip sales to China, preventing the Trump administration from licensing more advanced chips for more than two years. The Secure and Feasible Exports (SAFE) Chips Act, put forward by Sens. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), would direct…
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12:30 Report is The Hill’s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. In today’s issue: Happy Friday! It’s snowing today, and it’s magical!! ❄️ 📺NEWS THIS MORNING Netflix is taking over the world: Netflix announced today an agreement to buy Warner Bros. for $72 billion. That means the company, which already has more than 300 million paid subscribers,…
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The Commerce Department on Friday reported core prices increased by 2.8 percent compared to September of last year, excluding food and energy costs. The monthly rise in costs was measured at 0.2 percent. In total, consumer spending increased by $65.1 billion. Most of the growth came from service expenditures, including a 15.4 percent increase in…

President Trump will give remarks Friday morning while attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Trump, not long after his administration took the reins of the center, announced in August that the draw would take place at the performing arts venue. The event determines the matchups during the…

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro rebuffed Sen. Mark Warner’s (D-Va.) comments about the arrest of a man connected to pipe bombs planted outside the Republican and Democratic party offices in Washington in 2021, calling the lawmaker’s analysis “dumb.” “Maybe he should talk about the fact that the Biden administration had this…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military will continue targeting alleged “narco” ships in the Caribbean despite some lawmakers in Washington accusing him of committing a war crime over reports he approved a “double tap” attack on survivors during a Sept. 2 strike. “Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco…

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Thursday said “it’s a little rich” that the Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed they are making the country safer despite President Trump’s pardon of rioters tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Speaking on MS NOW’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Warner praised the DOJ’s investigation that led to…

Netflix comes out on top, SCOTUS messes with Texas and the DOJ has failed to go after one of Donald Trump’s enemies — again! Just some of the stories HuffPost is following today.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration is planning to expand its travel ban to more than 30 countries in the wake of a deadly shooting against National Guardsmen. “I won’t be specific on the number, but it’s over 30, and the President is continuing to evaluate countries,” Noem said Thursday evening in…

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Thursday slammed the prospect of the United States going to war with Venezuela, as tensions escalate between the two countries. “It’s really hard to say,” Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, told host Blake Burman on “The Hill on NewsNation.” “I don’t know what the president is…

If Donald Trump is sleepy, it’s probably not because of his exercise regimen.

Soccer’s biggest event is the Kennedy Center’s top billing on Friday, with President Trump attending the final draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Trump is expected to receive the world soccer organization’s inaugural peace prize. The vaccine panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to vote Friday on changes to…

“That choice isn’t holiday symbolism; it’s political theater,” one expert said.

Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today’s issue: ▪ Democrats demanding more info from Hegseth ▪ Trump housing official under investigation ▪ House, Senate tee up health care votes ▪ First phase of Gaza ceasefire nears completion President Trump scored a major win in the national redistricting battle on Thursday, as…

Trump’s Democratic foe introduced the “Presidential Walk of Fatigue.”

Republican senators, who are growing increasingly exasperated with the proliferation of high-profile controversies at the Pentagon, are not expressing much confidence in Pete Hegseth’s leadership — but they say it’s up to President Trump whether to keep him in the Cabinet. Many GOP senators have been careful not to provoke Trump’s anger by publicly criticizing…

House Republicans say Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is safe in his position for now, even as frustrated members across the spectrum lob verbal missiles and threaten his control of the House floor. Republicans have increasingly criticized Johnson’s strategic calls, voiced irritations with his tactics and pushed him to bend to their will. If anything, the…