DOJ asks Supreme Court to intervene in independent agency firings
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to intervene so the president can fire Democratic appointees at two independent federal agencies. Trump’s dismissals of National Labor...
View ArticleJudges temporarily block 5 Venezuelans' deportations under Alien Enemies Act
Federal judges in New York and Texas temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelan men it alleges are gang members by using the Alien Enemies Act. The American Civil...
View ArticleSocial Security walks back cuts to phone services, announces 'anti-fraud check'
(The Hill) - The Social Security Administration (SSA) reiterated Tuesday its plans to walk back proposed cuts to its phone services, saying it would be implementing an "anti-fraud check." “Beginning...
View ArticleHorsford berates US trade rep as Trump makes tariff announcement: 'WTF, who's...
Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) grilled the White House’s top trade negotiator on the administration’s trade strategy during a hearing on Wednesday, asking the official “who’s in charge” as President...
View ArticleJohnson aiming for budget vote Wednesday, but suggests support is not yet there
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that he’s still aiming to stage a vote later in the evening on a Senate-passed budget bill to guide President Trump’s domestic agenda, but suggested the...
View Article5 takeaways from the Trump tariff drama
Financial markets soared on Wednesday after President Trump issued a 90-day pause in almost all the tariffs that had roiled the global economy during the past week. The key exception was China, which...
View ArticleTrump orders probe into 'Anonymous' New York Times editorial writer
President Trump on Wednesday signed a pair of memorandums directing the Department of Justice to investigate two individuals who served in his first administration and pushed back against Trump. Trump...
View ArticleHouse hard-liners press Senate GOP for details on spending cuts ahead of key...
Hard-line House Republicans are pressing their Senate GOP colleagues for more information on the amount of spending cuts that will be included in the ultimate bill full of President Trump’s domestic...
View ArticleExclusive: Pence agrees Trump’s tariff policy a potential midterm liability...
Former Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration’s aggressive use of tariffs poses a potential risk for Republicans in the midterm elections, even as he expressed relief about a...
View ArticleJohnson scraps vote on Trump budget blueprint in face of conservative opposition
House Republican leaders on Wednesday scrapped plans to vote on the Senate’s framework to advance key parts of President Trump’s legislative agenda, a major setback that came in the face of opposition...
View ArticleHouse passes bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide...
The House on Wednesday passed a bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions in a move that would vastly diminish the ability of courts to block President Trump’s...
View ArticleNavarro approach rubs GOP the wrong way amid trade war
Peter Navarro’s bullish personality is rubbing some Trump allies the wrong way as he takes center stage in the battle over tariffs and butts heads with other top officials in the White House. Some...
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Ballerina Ksenia Karelina freed from Russian custody in prisoner exchange
(The Hill) – Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian dual national who was detained last year on treason charges, was released from Russia in the latest prisoner exchange, according to the State Department....
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After skipping Trump inauguration, Michelle Obama says 'I chose to do what...
(The Hill) - Michelle Obama on Tuesday appeared to open up publicly for the first time about her decision to skip President Trump's inauguration, saying she's at the point in her life where she's...
View ArticleJohnson presses ahead with vote on Trump budget blueprint
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he was pressing forward with a vote Thursday morning on the party's “one big, beautiful bill” full of President Trump’s legislative agenda, holding a joint appearance...
View ArticleElon Musk’s attorney running to succeed Paxton as Texas attorney general
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s attorney John Bash is running to succeed Ken Paxton (R) as Texas’s attorney general, becoming the first candidate to throw his hat in the statewide race. Bash, who is a...
View ArticleHouse GOP adopts Trump budget blueprint after last-minute scramble
House Republicans on Thursday adopted the Senate’s framework that will be used to enact key parts of President Trump’s legislative agenda, getting the blueprint over the finish line after a...
View ArticleHouse Republicans pass bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote
House Republicans for a second time passed a stand-alone bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections and impose voter roll purge requirements on states. The legislation —...
View ArticleTrump orders agencies to ‘sunset’ environmental protections
President Trump directed agencies that regulate energy and the environment to sunset a wide array of environmental protections in an executive order issued Wednesday night. He ordered agencies...
View ArticleLawmakers say airplanes bumped each other on runway at Reagan National
(The Hill) – Multiple lawmakers on Thursday said their airplane was bumped by another plane while waiting on the runway at Reagan National Airport. Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) tweeted that the wing of...
View ArticleHundreds of students, dozens of colleges hit by Trump's visa purge: What to know
(The Hill) - Hundreds of foreign students at dozens of colleges across the country have had their higher education experience turned upside down as the Trump administration has expanded its...
View ArticleTrump threatens to put higher tariff rate back if countries don’t strike deals
President Trump on Thursday threatened to reverse course on a 90-day pause on country-specific tariffs if countries don't strike a deal with his administration before then. “If we can’t make the deal...
View ArticleTrump must face Central Park 5 defamation suit, judge rules
A federal judge declined to toss a defamation lawsuit against President Trump over his remarks last year about five Black and Hispanic men wrongly convicted of a 1989 rape, dubbed the Central Park...
View ArticleStocks slide as Trump's trade war with China spooks Wall Street
Stocks slid Thursday as President Trump’s escalating trade war with China and concerns about its economic implications continued to rattle Wall Street. All three major stock indexes lost a significant...
View ArticleHow Republicans got from 'DEAD ON ARRIVAL' to 'yes' on the Trump budget...
As the fate of President Trump’s agenda hung in the balance in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) turned to what he knows best: prayer. At the end of an hours-long, late-night meeting that came...
View ArticleBessent moves to center of Trump World
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has stepped up his role on President Trump’s economic team, taking center stage on the president’s plans for tariffs. Bessent spearheaded the rollout of Trump’s 90-day...
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Winners and losers from the Trump tariffs drama
(The Hill) - President Trump blinked on Wednesday, pausing most of the tariffs he had sought to put on nations around the world. The one big exception is China, now the focus of an escalating trade...
View ArticleTrump threatens Mexico with additional tariffs in water dispute
(The Hill) – President Trump late Thursday threatened to impose additional tariffs and potential sanctions against Mexico over a long-running water dispute related to a 1944 treaty. "Mexico OWES Texas...
View ArticleSchumer, Warren call on SEC to investigate whether Trump manipulated market
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the Banking Committee, are calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to...
View ArticleJudge scolds DOJ for demanding delay in mistakenly deported man case
The federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to try to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, scolded the Justice Department for demanding more time to...
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Greenland space base commander removed after Vance criticism
(The Hill) - The Trump administration removed the Greenland space base commander Thursday after discovering the leader sent out an email breaking stride with the vice president. “Colonel Susannah...
View ArticleWitkoff meets Putin as Trump tells Russia 'to get moving'
A top envoy for President Trump met Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Trump voiced frustration with Moscow over efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Steve Witkoff, whose title is special...
View ArticleBlack Power Ranger actor disagrees with writer on his casting
(The Hill) – Walter Emanuel Jones, the actor best known for his role as the Black Power Ranger in the 1990s "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," has rejected the notion that casting a Black actor in the...
View ArticleWhite House responds to Supreme Court ruling on mistaken deportation
The White House on Friday responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Trump administration must “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rather than...
View ArticleJudge rips DOJ for no update on mistakenly deported man: 'They’ve done nothing’
A federal judge further tore into the Justice Department at a Friday hearing for refusing to comply with her order for more information about a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Deputy...
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Amazon CEO: Sellers will try to pass tariff costs along to buyers
(The Hill) – Amazon CEO Andy Jassy predicted that the retailer’s web of third-party sellers will try to pass the extra costs incurred by the Trump administration's wide-ranging tariffs on to buyers....
View ArticleTrump announces $600 million in new deals with five law firms
(The Hill) - President Trump announced a series of agreements with five major law firms Friday, signing deals for some $600 million in pro bono work as the Trump administration continues its pressure...
View ArticleSocial Security Administration 'will be using X to communicate' moving forward
(The Hill) - The Social Security Administration (SSA) on Thursday unveiled that it would use social platform X to make announcements going forward, instead of traditional press releases or memos...
View ArticleTrump administration refers Maine to DOJ over transgender athletes
The Department of Education on Friday referred a Title IX investigation into Maine schools to the Justice Department after the state failed to reach a resolution with the Trump administration over a...
View ArticleTrump administration adds immigrant Social Security numbers to 'death list'...
(The Hill) – The Trump administration directed the Social Security Administration (SSA) to place more than 6,300 migrants on its list for tracking dead people, blocking their ability to work in a move...
View ArticleImmigration judge allows Mahmoud Khalil deportation effort to proceed
A judge in former Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil's case ruled in favor of the federal government on Friday, allowing Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) to move forward with its...
View ArticleWorldPride organizers caution transgender visitors from abroad
(The Hill) - Organizers of WorldPride, a global LGBTQ Pride event series to be held this year in Washington, issued an advisory Friday for transgender people from overseas, citing recent policies put...
View ArticleTrump says he would respect Supreme Court decision to return wrongly deported...
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Trump said Friday he would respect a Supreme Court decision to bring back a Maryland man the administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador. “If the Supreme Court...
View ArticleGOP frustrations with conservatives rise after budget fight
Frustrations are bubbling up among House Republicans after the conference — by the skin of its teeth — overcame internal disputes to adopt a framework for President Trump’s legislative agenda, a...
View ArticleTrump exempts phones, computers, other electronics from reciprocal tariffs
(The Hill) -- The Trump administration is exempting electronics such as phones, computers and other electronics from the "reciprocal" tariffs imposed on other nations, including China. Guidance posted...
View ArticleSupreme Court gives Trump wiggle room with mistaken deportation decision
A Supreme Court decision pushing for the return of a man mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran prison has both his lawyers and the Trump administration claiming victory, leaving unclear if and when...
View ArticleMeasles cases rise to 700, adding pressure to RFK Jr.
(The Hill) - The measles outbreak has now surpassed 700 reported cases in the U.S., raising the pressure on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rein in the deadly virus....
View ArticleRepublicans fear Trump’s trade war could lead to political wipeout
Republican lawmakers say there’s a good chance that President Trump's trade war will boomerang on Republicans politically in 2026, as rising prices and shrinking growth could offset other...
View ArticleTrump administration says man mistakenly deported to El Salvador is 'alive...
Video above: SCOTUS says Trump admin must 'facilitate' return of mistakenly deported man (The Hill) — The Trump administration provided a Saturday wellness report for the Maryland man mistakenly...
View ArticleTrump tariffs bring Democrat disagreements to surface
(The Hill) — President Donald Trump’s tariffs are putting Democrats in a challenging political position as they decide how strongly to denounce his trade policy. Democrats have pounced on Trump’s...
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