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• Blanche formally sworn in as attorney general

  10-08-2026 20:58 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump’s former personal attorney Todd Blanche was sworn in as attorney general on Monday, making him the second official to hold the top law enforcement position during the second Trump administration.Trump’s aide Margot Martin posted a video of Blanche’s swearing in from the Oval Office on Monday afternoon.The Senate confirmed Blanche in...
  
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• Trump on WWII memorial vandalism: 'We are on their trail'

  14-08-2026 16:10 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Friday said investigators are on the trail of vandals who spraypainted the War II Memorial in Washington D.C. Trump also tied the spray-paiting incident at the memorial to vandalism he says damaged the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. There has been significant pushback to the argument that vandalism is the cause of problems...
  
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• Bessent teases severe economic action against Iran

  14-08-2026 16:07 via thehill.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration will unveil new measures against Iran next week as it seeks to increase economic pressure on the regime to come back to the negotiating table on a deal to end hostilities and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “Watch this space for more announcements coming next week...
  
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• Live updates: White House appeals ballroom ruling to Supreme Court; Trump will visit NY to tout decline in crime

  14-08-2026 15:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump heads Friday to Long Island, N.Y., to highlight his administration's efforts to fight crime. He'll tour the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City along with Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. He's also expected to give remarks and to boost Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is running for...
  
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• Live updates: White House appeals ballroom ruling to Supreme Court; Trump visits New York to tout decline in crime

  14-08-2026 15:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump heads Friday to Long Island, N.Y., to highlight his administration's efforts to fight crime. He'll tour the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City along with Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. He's also expected to give remarks and to boost Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is running for...
  
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• Trump asks Supreme Court to allow White House ballroom construction 

  14-08-2026 15:25 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to immediately allow construction on the White House ballroom and berated lower judges for halting it, insisting the project must proceed for national security.“This Project, like its predecessors, should be a matter for the President and the political process, not construction-by-injunction,” Solicitor General D. John...
  
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• Mark Kelly on aircraft carrier catapult order: 'Donald Trump knows nothing about this stuff'

  14-08-2026 15:11 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering the U.S. Navy to revert to older catapult systems on its aircraft carriers, arguing the change would be costly while questioning Trump’s qualifications to make such a call. “He’s a marginally failed real estate developer with multiple bankruptcies,” Kelly said in an interview with...
  
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• Live updates: Trump visits New York to tout decline in crime

  14-08-2026 15:02 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump heads Friday to Long Island, N.Y., to highlight his administration's efforts to fight crime. He'll tour the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City along with Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. He's also expected to give remarks and to boost Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is running for...
  
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• Trump faces near-impossible task of replacing Karoline Leavitt

  14-08-2026 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is facing what many are describing as the impossible task of replacing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt following news of her decision to step down.  Leavitt is considered an indispensable member of the administration, playing a key role in Trump’s inner circle while working as one of the White House’s lead messengers. ...
  
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• Interior investigating vandalism at WWII Memorial

  14-08-2026 04:30 via thehill.com
  
  The Interior Department is investigating a case of vandalism at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. after finding brightly colored graffiti and soap bubbles filling its fountain. A spokesperson for the department said the U.S. Park Police were on the scene and investigating, blaming vandals for neon orange, pink and green graffiti sprawled...
  
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• White House accuses over 40 countries of helping China avoid US tariffs

  14-08-2026 03:30 via thehill.com
  
  The White House accused China of routing billions of dollars of goods through other countries to avoid President Trump’s 2018 tariffs, costing the U.S. billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a new report released Thursday. The report, titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” found more than 40 countries, ranging from Mexico to Israel, involved...
  
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• White House accuses more than 40 countries of helping China avoid US tariffs

  14-08-2026 03:30 via thehill.com
  
  The White House accused China of routing billions of dollars of goods through other countries to avoid President Trump’s 2018 tariffs, costing the U.S. billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a new report released Thursday. The report, titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” found more than 40 countries, ranging from Mexico to Israel, were...
  
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• Trump directs Navy to return to steam catapults on aircraft carriers

  14-08-2026 03:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy on Thursday to remove the electromagnetic catapult system on aircraft carriers to launch fighter planes and revert back to using catapult systems, a move that officials and experts argue would raise costs in the process.The president directed the service to have Ford-class aircraft carriers, such as the Doris...
  
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• Third detainee dies after medical emergency at New Jersey ICE facility

  14-08-2026 01:16 via thehill.com
  
  A third migrant detained at Delaney Hall, New Jersey's largest immigrant detention facility located in Newark, has died following a medical emergency. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told The Hill in a statement Thursday that, on July 19, a nurse was responding to another emergency when she noticed Guatemalan immigrant Jose Chajon-Raxon "experiencing seizure-like...
  
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• Senate Democrats call for GAO audit of White House ballroom project

  14-08-2026 01:13 via thehill.com
  
  A group of Senate Democrats called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct an audit into the White House ballroom project following new reporting on the Trump administration’s multi-million-dollar construction projects.  The Washington Post reported Wednesday on confidential contracts that showed the administration is expected to spend at least $900 million on White House...
  
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• Top Commerce Committee Democrat presses airlines over AI ‘surveillance pricing’

  14-08-2026 00:24 via thehill.com
  
  A top Democrat on the House Commerce Committee is pressing major U.S. airlines over whether they use artificial intelligence to set ticket prices based on travelers’ personal information, raising concerns that it determines what fares consumers see. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent letters to...
  
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• Who will replace Leavitt? Top contenders emerge

  14-08-2026 00:09 via thehill.com
  
  News of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stepping down is still fresh, but political observers are already guessing and taking bets on who could take her place. The press secretary is one of the most front-facing administration officials, and President Trump went through four press secretaries during his first term, with their timelines spanning...
  
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• Trump cancels Biden-era bid to speed power line construction

  13-08-2026 23:41 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration is canceling a Biden-era effort to speed up power line construction in parts of Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska and the Dakotas. The Energy Department announced this week that it would not move forward with designating three areas as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, a move that could get them federal...
  
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• Stephen Miller on 'Woke 1': 'It never stopped'

  13-08-2026 23:16 via thehill.com
  
  White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Wednesday claimed that the “woke 1” era and its consequences have not ended  after recent comments about the time period from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). “The result, the wages of that policy, were a historic increase in murders until President Trump came along. A historic increase in...
  
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• DOJ alleges California prisons failed to protect women prisoners from sexual abuse by staff

  13-08-2026 23:04 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday blasted California for allegedly failing to protect female prisoners from sexual abuse and harassment. The DOJ leveled its accusations at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), namely at the two women's prisons that it oversees — the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla and the California...
  
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• DOJ alleges California prisons failed to protect female prisoners from sexual abuse by staff

  13-08-2026 23:04 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday blasted California for allegedly failing to protect female prisoners from sexual abuse and harassment. The DOJ leveled its accusations at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), namely at the two women's prisons that it oversees — the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla and the California...
  
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• Vance to GOP: Don't blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism

  13-08-2026 22:58 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Vance issued a warning to Republicans on Thursday about the momentum of progressive candidates on the left, saying GOP members can only blame themselves if they don’t persuade young voters.  “Our response to that [socialism] can’t just be to ignore the economic concerns that I think are feeding this rising interest in socialism,”...
  
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• Jennings: Ocasio-Cortez 'heir to the Sanders socialist movement'

  13-08-2026 22:34 via thehill.com
  
  Conservative commentator Scott Jennings on Wednesday described Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) as an “heir” to the Democratic Party's growing socialist movement, one he said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) brought on. “She is the heir to the Sanders socialist movement. She is clearly the inspirational leader of that movement. That energy in the Democratic Party is...
  
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• Appeals court rules key Alien Enemies Act lawsuit moot

  13-08-2026 22:27 via thehill.com
  
  A federal appeals court on Thursday sidestepped major questions on whether President Trump lawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act last year to conduct swift deportations, finding a key challenge moot. The case had boomeranged from the Supreme Court after Trump began deportations under the rarely used law in the early months of his administration’s immigration crackdown.The jurists on...
  
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• Kennedy Center board OKs new way of adding Trump’s name to building

  13-08-2026 22:05 via thehill.com
  
  The Kennedy Center board voted Thursday to add President Trump’s name to the performing arts building months after a judge blocked an effort to rename the center after him, according to multiple reports. The Trump-aligned board approved an inscription underneath the Kennedy Center’s name, reading: “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.” The new...
  
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• Live updates: Appeals court calls deportation case 'moot'; Pentagon pushed on complaints from USS Abraham Lincoln

  13-08-2026 21:52 via thehill.com
  
  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that a case challenging the Trump administration on its use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants is now moot, with the plaintiffs having been deported using another law. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday claimed that conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier have been “completely...
  
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• Baier pushes back on Trump's Strait of Hormuz claim: 'Traffic has slowed ... to a trickle'

  13-08-2026 21:32 via thehill.com
  
  Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday pushed back on President Trump's claim that the U.S. "totally" controls the Strait of Hormuz, saying that traffic through the waterway has slowed down "to a trickle." "Usually, about one-fifth of the world's liquefied natural gas trade moves through there as well," Baier said on Wednesday's episode of...
  
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• What we know about the Air Force One ruse

  13-08-2026 21:24 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump departed the NATO summit in Turkey last month aboard an alternate aircraft at the behest of the Secret Service amid what intelligence officials said was a credible assassination threat from Iran. The Washington Post first reported on Monday that Trump hid aboard a catering truck, which typically carries meals and other supplies preflight,...
  
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• US ambassador condemns ‘Israeli terrorists’ for siege of Palestinian American home 

  13-08-2026 21:13 via thehill.com
  
  U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said the U.S. requested Israeli security forces remove “Israeli terrorists” from besieging a Palestinian village and the home of a Palestinian American, condemning the actions as criminal and an act of terror.  Huckabee’s statement marks an unusually strong response from the Trump administration related to Israeli settlers. The ambassador...
  
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• U.S. ambassador condemns ‘Israeli terrorists’ for siege of Palestinian American home 

  13-08-2026 21:13 via thehill.com
  
  U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said the U.S. requested Israeli security forces to remove “Israeli terrorists” from besieging a Palestinian village and the home of a Palestinian American, condemning the actions as criminal and an act of terror.  Huckabee’s statement marks an unusually strong response from the Trump administration related to Israeli settlers. The...
  
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