A third offshore wind project halted by the Trump administration was allowed to resume construction Friday, dealing yet another blow to the administration’s anti-wind efforts. Federal Judge Jamar Walker, a Biden appointee in Virginia, allowed the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project (CVOW) to temporarily keep building. Walker granted a preliminary injunction Friday that halted...
A Liberian national who was arrested by federal immigration officers in Minnesota last weekend after they used a battering ram to break down his door was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody Friday for the second time in less than 24 hours, according to his attorney, who spoke with The Associated Press. A...
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which allow law enforcement to demand companies turn over information on cell phones online at a location during a specific time window. In a brief order, the justices said they will review a defendant’s appeal that argues it violated his Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches. The case will potentially be...
The Supreme Court on Friday took up a bid from Bayer to limit liability for pesticide makers, including Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller, which has become the subject of numerous cancer suits. The court said it would take up the company’s petition, which was backed by the Trump administration. It said it would only evaluate the question of whether...
Taiwan has reached a trade agreement with the U.S., committing to a multibillion-dollar investment in American chip manufacturing in exchange for reduced tariffs, the Commerce Department announced Thursday. As part of the trade deal, Taiwanese companies will invest at least $250 billion in building out advanced semiconductor, energy and AI capacity in the U.S. The...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday called criticism over an online post from his press office about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "fair" after it equated the agency with state-sponsored terrorists. Newsom addressed the post on his podcast "This is Gavin Newsom" with conservative pundit Ben Shapiro, who said the post "makes our politics...
Sens. Ashley Moody (R-Ind.) and Jim Banks (R-Fla.) agreed to a playful bet ahead of the upcoming college football national championship game between the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Indiana University Hoosiers. The teams will face off Monday at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. Moody posted a video to social platform X on Friday...
President Trump's name will soon be attached to several miles of Sunshine Boulevard in Palm Beach, Fla. The president will participate in the renaming ceremony Friday after commissioners voted last summer to designate 4 miles of the stretch running from Palm Beach International Airport to his Mar-a-Lago resort as President Donald J. Trump Boulevard, with...
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 6.06% this week — down from 7.04% a year ago.
The former vice president spoke for about 20 minutes, touching on topics around the theme of “Defending Our Democracy, Protecting Our Rights.”
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran, on Friday called for the U.S. to take decisive action against the “instrument of repression” in Tehran to stop the brutal crackdown on anti-government protests and warned against any deals with the country’s autocratic leaders. “The United States has a choice,” Pahlavi said during an event at...
Tens of thousands gathered Friday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Havana to protest the deaths of Cuban officers killed during the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The protesters also called for the release of Maduro, a close ally of Cuba who now faces trial on drug trafficking charges in a...
The affected water was sold in gallon-size jugs in six states.
President Trump said Friday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney should be making a trade deal with China, an economic U.S. adversary the president has been going after during his second term. “That’s OK. That’s what he should be doing. I mean, it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you...
Norwegian Labour Party lawmaker Raymond Johansen on Thursday ripped President Trump for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado presented Trump with the prize Thursday during a White House meeting after months of lauding the president in his push to oust regime leader Nicolás Maduro and for his war...
A day after her meeting with President Trump, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado expressed confidence that the U.S. is moving toward free elections in the country, but she acknowledged it would be a “process that has several phases.” During a press conference hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Friday, Machado criticized Delcy...
President Trump said Friday there is no reason for him to invoke the Insurrection Act, one day after he threatened to use the law in the wake of demonstrations in Minneapolis. “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” Trump told reporters at the...
President Trump on Friday touted a targeted $50 billion rural health fund as evidence of his administration’s commitment to helping rural communities improve health care costs and access, part of a White House push to focus on affordability ahead of November's midterm elections. The fund was added as a last-minute sweetener to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and as a backstop for...
The Trump administration and a group of bipartisan governors is trying to pressure the nation’s largest regional electric grid operator to bring down electric prices, especially in the wake of heavy demand from data centers. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright were joined Friday by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Maryland Gov....
Democratic socialism is gaining traction among younger Americans due to their dissatisfaction with capitalism, which has failed to provide basic security, and is being championed by figures like Zohran Mamdani, whose focus on food insecurity, housing and public goods has resonated with voters.
President Trump will pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced (R), a White House official confirmed to The Hill. Vázquez Garced, who was governor of the U.S. territory from 2019 to 2021, was arrested in 2022 for allegedly bribing people to finance her 2020 campaign. In August, Vázquez Garced pleaded guilty to accepting a...
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here. Happy Friday! President Trump’s inauguration weekend was exactly a year ago now. Part of me feels like that was just yesterday but most of me feels like it’s been two or three years! In today's issue: Programming note: The Hill’s 12:30 Report will not publish Monday...
Right now, Minnesota feels like a pressure cooker — what’s happening there is bigger than one city, one governor or one president. It’s a snapshot of what happens when immigration becomes a political weapon instead of a policy problem that demands grown-up solutions. Gov. Tim Walz tried to lower the temperature as tensions escalated in Minneapolis, urging protesters to remain peaceful...
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, is suing the tech billionaire’s AI company, xAI, after its chatbot Grok produced sexualized images of her. St. Clair filed suit against xAI in New York state court Thursday, alleging that Grok generated images of her “as a child stripped down to a string...
We would never trust a random person with no credentials to fix our cars, so why would we trust them with our physical or mental health?
