Immigration officials relied in part on a shadowy online blacklist to single out pro-Palestinian campus activists for investigation, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official testified Wednesday. Peter Hatch, assistant director of intelligence for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), said that he was given a list of names for his team to investigate in March, and…
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National Forest Service (NFS) Chief Tom Schultz on Thursday will testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee about the agency’s fiscal 2026 budget request. The request, unveiled in May, includes steep cuts to the NFS workforce while prioritizing “forest management, including timber sales, hazardous fuels removal, mineral extraction, grazing, and wildlife habitat management.”…
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday he believes a so-called “client list” associated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once existed but was “destroyed” by the Biden administration. “I think the files existed at one time,” Burchett said in an interview on NewsNation’s “On Balance” with host Leland Vittert. “I think they were destroyed in the…
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The Puerto Rican star flipped the script on the president in “NUEVAYoL.”
Trump’s tax and spending bill does not eliminate taxes on Social Security, overtime and tip income, but merely provides temporary tax deductions
Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said he discussed the Jeffrey Epstein case in March with President Trump, who told him that there are “a lot of names associated” with the disgraced financier for innocuous reasons. “I talked to President Trump, man to man, eye to eye, on St Patrick’s Day about this… And he…
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Andrew Bailey took issue with how the AI platforms ranked the president on “a straightforward historical question.”
The cringeworthy exchange went viral on social media.
President Trump’s push for a ceasefire in Gaza is testing his bond with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which was on full display this week during the Israeli leader’s third visit to Washington this year. Even when Trump and Netanyahu have diverged in private, they have usually remained publicly in lockstep — apart from Trump…
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President Trump’s about-face on last week’s pause of some weapons shipments to Ukraine has revealed chasms within the administration, with the president claiming several times that he didn’t know who approved the halt. Trump on Monday said he would restart the dispatch of defensive weapons to the country — to include air defense missiles —…
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The MSNBC host trashed “Trumpian stupidity” and said there’s “no way” the president “can fake sounding smart about anything.”
Susie Wiles said it was “not a good ending” for Musk’s time in the White House, but she enjoyed working with him overall.
The president’s hype doesn’t hold the heat, they argued.
Joe Davidson, who wrote the “Federal Insider” column at the paper, said he couldn’t live with the “level of constraint” amid the billionaire’s ownership.
It was mocked as the perfect metaphor.
The president was given an unusual honor in his adopted home state.
His statements come amid fierce scrutiny of staffing shortages following the Texas floods.
The Secret Service suspended six agents in connection with their “actions” during last year’s assassination attempt on President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a source from the agency confirmed. They were suspended following an investigation into the attempted assassination, “specifically their actions,” the source told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company. Their jobs,…
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President Trump said Wednesday he was impressed with Liberian President Joseph Boakai’s English during a meeting with African heads of state at the White House. “Such good English,” he said after Boakai spoke. “Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia? Well, that’s very interesting. It’s beautiful English,” Trump said during a joint press conference. “I…
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Marc Short said the president’s trade agenda is “starkly different” from that of the first administration.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) suggested on Wednesday that he would not vote in favor of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation at this time. During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Tillis said that when it came to Hegseth’s confirmation vote, he “had already informed my conference that I was going to defer to the Senate…
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English is the official language of Liberia, which was founded as an American colony in the 1800s.
The truth-challenged ex-congressman suggested that the House Speaker is preventing President Donald Trump from pardoning him for federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
The Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. will depart as President Volodymyr Zelensky looks to reshape relationships in Washington amid the war with Russia. Oksana Markarova is out as the leading U.S. diplomat, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha. “She is extremely effective and charismatic, but every diplomat has a rotation cycle,” Sybiha said during…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is widely considered to be a leading contender for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2028, told reporters in South Carolina on Wednesday that he is skeptical — but not surprised — about the IRS’s decision this week that allows churches to endorse political candidates. “I don’t know if…
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