Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) confirmed Friday they will testify on March 4 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee over the state's welfare fraud scandal. “Americans deserve answers about the rampant misuse of taxpayer dollars in Minnesota’s social services programs that occurred on Governor Walz’s and...
The government is likely to temporarily shut down this weekend after the Senate failed to pass a funding package on Thursday due to challenges from Democrats to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bill. Here’s what you need to know about the partial government shutdown. Why is the government temporarily shutting down? After federal agents...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney praised President Trump's nomination of former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh to serve as its next chair in a post Friday on social platform X. “Kevin Warsh is a fantastic choice to lead the world’s most important central bank at this crucial time,” Carney said in the post. Carney...
The U.S. is lifting some sanctions on Venezuelan oil, seeking to allow American firms to trade and sell more oil that is produced there. The move comes as the administration has said it will sell Venezuelan oil following its capture of leader Nicolás Maduro. Previously, two commodities traders, Trafigura and Vitol, were given permission to help facilitate the...
Renowned actress Catherine O'Hara has died at the age of 71, according to multiple reports.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman argued Thursday that Silicon Valley “can’t bend the knee” to President Trump after a second American was killed by federal agents amid an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Hoffman, a major Democratic donor, said in an op-ed in the San Francisco Standard that too many tech leaders have “divested themselves of the...
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and if the resolution passes the full House, the Department of Justice will have to decide whether to prosecute them for contempt.
English musician Brian May, the lead guitar player for Queen, hinted that the band probably wouldn’t perform in the United States in the near future, if at all.
A federal judge has rejected a request to be released pending trial from the suspect accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committees ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, an appointee of former President Biden, ruled Thursday that Brian Cole Jr. must remain locked up...
Former Attorney General Eric Holder (D) said Thursday he has “huge concerns” about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s presence during the recent FBI raid of election offices in Georgia, arguing she has “no role” in domestic activities. “I have huge concerns. The director of national intelligence heads agencies that look out from our borders...
President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday that he did not discuss interest rate cuts with his Federal Reserve chair pick, Kevin Warsh, insisting that would be “inappropriate.” When asked whether Warsh had committed to him that he would cut interest rates if he is confirmed, Trump said, “No, but we talk...
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will join a variety of federal entities investigating the killing of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti, tapping the involvement of a segment of DOJ that reviews excessive force by police. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the division would work alongside the FBI and a division of the Department of...
Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" was presented as a new architecture for global stability at Davos, but lacks the necessary components of a functioning international institution and risks creating a U.S.-centric club that sidelines dissenting states and normalizes bypassing existing norms.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) raised $88 million in 2025, the campaign arm announced Friday, as the party fights to hold onto the Senate in the midterms later this year. It’s the NRSC’s best off-year fundraising haul since 2021, leaving nearly $20 million in the bank as Republicans enter 2026. “We’re raising record amounts...
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that will bring the IndyCar race to the streets of Washington, D.C. this summer as a part of the country’s 250th anniversary. The race’s theme, which will be dubbed ‘Greatness with American Motorracing,’ will take place by the National Mall the weekend of August 21 to 23. ...
Polling from a group linked to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) found that a generous sum of Americans want Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “tone down” its tactics, according to a report from Punchbowl News. A poll by America One Policies PAC showed that 41 percent of respondents don’t want “immigration and enforcement and deportations” to...
The Senate is on track to pass a government funding package Friday afternoon after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told colleagues that he will release his hold on the massive spending bill if he gets a vote on legislation to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities. Graham brought the funding package, which includes five regular appropriations...
The billions flowing into these operations are funding a new kind of weapon: industrialized artificial intelligence.
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here. Happy Friday! This has been quite the news dump Friday. There’s so much going on. Let’s get into it… In today's issue: DOJ releases millions more Epstein files Congress barrels toward midnight funding deadline Graham holds up Senate funding package White House touts Don Lemon...
Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: this isn’t about “election integrity.” This is about obsession. An obsession with the fact he lost and a refusal to move on.
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is no longer a liberal fantasy, but a necessity to prevent social fracture and buy time as AI continues to replace jobs faster than institutions can adapt.
The new policy will help cover the cost of verifying the identity of travelers with insufficient ID, the TSA says.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the recent killing of Minnesotans by federal law enforcement officers, calling “savagery” a feature of President Trump's MAGA movement, in an op-ed in The Atlantic published Friday. “This crisis in Minneapolis reveals a deep moral rot at the heart of Trump’s movement,” Clinton wrote, adding, “‘The cruelty is...
The White House is standing firmly behind its decision Friday to arrest former CNN anchor Don Lemon. “When life gives you lemons,” the White House account posted Friday on social platform X with a chains emoji. The text accompanied a photo of Lemon during his recent coverage of a protest inside a St. Paul, Minn.,...
“Agents are at my door,” independent journalist Georgia Fort told followers during a livestream on Facebook early Friday morning. The founder of BLCK Press, a self-described social enterprise newsroom in Minnesota, was filming the moments before she surrendered to federal authorities on unspecified charges related to a disruption during a St. Paul church service earlier...
