Another chaotic school year has ended at universities, and the graduates have danced across the stage waving diplomas that are shrinking in significance. Here’s hoping college administrators find time during their leisurely summer breaks to recognize their roles in diminishing the academy, largely because they have lost a commitment to rigorous truth-seeking that can only […]
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Massive Russia sanctions package stalls as Trump pushes for Ukraine peace talks
Senators are growing antsy to move ahead with a massive sanctions package against Russia, and the only thing standing in the way is President Donald Trump. In the midst of the extremely partisan budget reconciliation process, nearly the entire upper chamber has coalesced behind the sanctions package from Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. and Richard Blumenthal, […]
Trump’s DHS says Biden released ‘barbaric’ illegal immigrant now accused of heinous crime
FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a detainer in Massachusetts for a criminal illegal immigrant charged with raping a child with force in a crime that was captured on video. Lorenzo Lopez Alcario, a 30-year-old Guatemalan national, accused of tying up and brutally sexually assaulting […]
Trump: China’s Xi ‘extremely hard to make a deal with’
President Trump on Wednesday offered a seemingly backhanded compliment for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, whom he’s had a fraught relationship with in recent years, as trade talks between the world’s largest economies continue. “I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A […]
Trump unleashes MAGA rebellion on Federalist Society
The Gavel is The Hill’s weekly courts newsletter. Sign up here or in the box below: Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the The Gavel newsletter Subscribe President Trump and his allies are waging war with the Federalist […]
Trump allies attempt DC Bar takeover
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Trump says Xi is ‘very tough’ and ‘extremely hard to make a deal with’
Chinese President Xi Jinping is “very tough” and “extremely hard to make a deal with,” President Donald Trump admitted Wednesday. Trump made the statement on his Truth Social platform, clarifying that he still “likes” the Chinese leader. The statement comes as Trump is expected to hold a phone call with Xi sometime this week to […]
Morning Report — Musk critique complicates GOP’s megabill push
Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the Morning Report newsletter Subscribe In today’s issue: Thune urges […]
New York Democrats close ranks around Hochul amid deputy’s primary revolt
New York Democrats are closing ranks around Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) in the wake of Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado’s (D) decision to launch a primary challenge against her. Delgado and Hochul’s relationship has been on the rocks for a while, and many in the party expected the lieutenant governor to jump into the race. Still, […]
Trump must resist WHO’s pandemic power-grab
The World Health Organization is still not doing enough to stop another pandemic. Last month, the UN body adopted a new pandemic treaty by consensus at its annual meeting, but the accord merely doubles down on the WHO’s previous failed policies. President Trump has rightly pledged to oppose this treaty, but he must now take […]
The genteel, silver-tongued thinker who fathered US conservatism – and paved the way for Trump
A new biography digs into the life of William F Buckley Jr. Its author thinks the rightwing intellectual has some lessons for the left Back when the “public intellectual” was still a thriving species in America, the conservative writer William F Buckley Jr was one of the most famous – of any political stripe. On […]
Trump keeps being overruled by judges. And his temper tantrums won’t stop that | Steven Greenhouse
A word of advice to Trump: dozens of judges keep ruling against you because you’ve flouted the law more than any previous president It’s hard to keep track of all the temper tantrums that Donald Trump has had because he’s so ticked off that one judge after another has ruled against his flood of illegal […]
Antisemitic and Islamophobic violence is rising in the United States. Both must stop | Moustafa Bayoumi
We have a duty to call out antisemitism when we see it. We also have an equal duty to remember that Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are also being targeted This must stop. Two incidents of political violence, both targeting groups of Jewish people, are two incidents too many. Less than two weeks ago, a gunman […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of assembling ‘rogues’ gallery’ to attack NGOs
Congressional Integrity Project calls Wednesday hearing led by Greene ‘political theater’ and exercise in hypocrisy The far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has assembled a “rogues’ gallery of extremists, conspiracy theorists and C-team political operatives” to promote Donald Trump’s crackdown on non-government organisations (NGOs), a congressional watchdog has claimed. The House of Representatives’ Delivering on Government […]
‘This isn’t just about Trump’: the Rev William Barber arrested after prayer-protest against Republican-led budget
Eight were arrested at Moral Monday, an effort to stop a bill they say will slash vital healthcare for lower income people A police officer’s sense of timing seemed to illuminate the Rev William Barber’s moral mission with startling clarity. During a prayer vigil on Monday in the Capitol rotunda, close to the very heart […]
Why TACO trade gets under Trump’s skin
President Trump has fielded questions from the Oval Office in recent weeks about Elon Musk’s drug use, sensitive matters of diplomacy and the ethics of accepting a Qatari jet as a gift to be used as Air Force One. He’s chafed at some of those questions, but few set him off like the one he […]
Elon Musk attacks Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ tax bill as ‘outrageous’ and says it will cause deficit to grow to $2.5tn – US politics live
Billionaire tech entrepreneur, who recently left the Trump administration, calls president’s tax and spending bill an ‘abomination’ Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the coming hours. We start with news that Elon Musk, the billionaire tech […]
BBC accuses White House of misrepresenting fatal Gaza attack report
As Trump press secretary says BBC takes ‘word of Hamas with total truth’, corporation accuses Karoline Leavitt of political point scoring Middle East crisis – live updates The BBC has defended its reporting on the war in Gaza and accused the White House of misrepresenting its journalism after Donald Trump’s administration criticised its coverage of […]
Could this top Trump ally break Republican’s 2-decade losing streak in this key state?
EXCLUSIVE: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, headlining a local GOP fundraising dinner in this MAGA stronghold in Democrat-dominated New York City, sent a likely hint of things to come. “Are we ready to fire Kathy Hochul next year?” said the six-term congresswoman from a largely rural, red-leaning district in Upstate New York, […]
Elon Musk warns excessive spending will plunge US ‘into debt slavery’
Billionaire business tycoon Elon Musk, who issued a scathing rebuke of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the House Republicans who voted for it, is sounding the alarm about America’s profligate spending, warning that it will plunge the nation “into debt slavery.” “This immense level of overspending will drive America into debt slavery!” Musk […]