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• Democrats pan Trump’s new national security strategy

  07-12-2025 04:43 via thehill.com
  
  Several prominent congressional Democrats on Saturday slammed the Trump administration's national security strategy (NSS), claiming it favors President Trump's business interests and weakens U.S. influence abroad. "Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy puts his family’s and friends’ business interests with our adversaries, like Russia and China, over promises to our allies," Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who...
  
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• Veasey not running for reelection in Texas

  09-12-2025 17:45 via thehill.com
  
  Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey (Texas) said late Monday he would not run for reelection in the Lone Star State following a decade-plus stint in the lower chamber. “For more than 13 years, I have had the profound honor of serving North Texans in the United States House of Representatives. Representing the communities that raised me,...
  
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• ICE tracking app maker sues over Trump administration pressure

  09-12-2025 17:21 via thehill.com
  
  The creator of ICEBlock — an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — sued the Trump administration on Monday, arguing Attorney General Pam Bondi violated free speech protections by pressuring Apple to remove the app from its store. Joshua Aaron, the maker of the app, argues in the...
  
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• Allred says he dropped Senate bid after 'professional, friendly conversation' with Crockett

  09-12-2025 16:57 via thehill.com
  
  Former Texas Rep. Colin Allred (D) on Monday explained why he dropped his Senate bid after talking with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who later joined the race. Allred told CNN’s Dana Bash that after a “professional, friendly conversation” with Crockett, he’d chosen to pursue another stint in the House instead of the Senate, avoiding a...
  
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• Live updates: Supreme Court hears campaign spending case; Trump to tout economy in Pennsylvania

  09-12-2025 16:17 via thehill.com
  
  The Supreme Court on Tuesday is taking up another pivotal case, with oral arguments regarding campaign spending limits. The administration is pushing for the court to overturn a 2001 ruling on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. Vice President Vance joined the lawsuit when he was a...
  
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• Trump argues national security at risk if Supreme Court rules against tariffs

  09-12-2025 16:10 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Tuesday argued that national security is at risk if the Supreme Court decides to rule against his sweeping tariff agenda. “The biggest threat in history to United States National Security would be a negative decision on Tariffs by the U.S. Supreme Court. We would be financially defenseless,” the president wrote in an...
  
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• Former DOJ staff rip civil rights unit's 'destruction'

  09-12-2025 16:05 via thehill.com
  
  More than 200 attorneys formerly employed in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division bashed the Trump administration Tuesday for turning its “core mission upside down” as it took a series of moves to gut the agency. The open letter, signed on the 68th anniversary of the creation of the Civil Rights Division, outlines a number of moves taken that have...
  
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• Trump hopes Alito, Thomas stay on Supreme Court bench

  09-12-2025 16:03 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump declined to encourage the retirements of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s two oldest conservatives, in a new interview released Tuesday.“I hope they stay, ’cause I think they’re fantastic, OK?” Trump told Politico's Dasha Burns, when asked if he wanted to see them retire. “Both of those men...
  
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• Judge orders release of mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew

  09-12-2025 16:02 via thehill.com
  
  An immigration judge on Monday ordered the release of the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew. Bruna Ferreira, a 33-year-old immigrant from Brazil, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last month in Revere, Mass., according to the Associated Press. Ferreira was transported to a detention center in Louisiana, where she...
  
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• Trump approval rating ticks up to 41 percent: Survey

  09-12-2025 15:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump’s approval rating increased to 41 percent in a new survey, buoyed by rising Republican support for his handling of the economy. The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll found Trump's overall approval ticked up 3 points from the 38 percent recorded late last month — a statistically significant increase outside the margin of error. The previous...
  
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• Trump refuses to rule out sending US troops to Venezuela

  09-12-2025 15:30 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump did not rule out sending U.S. troops to Venezuela in an interview released Tuesday as tensions between Washington and Caracas rise. “I don’t comment on that. I wouldn’t say that one way or the other,” Trump told Politico’s Dasha Burns when asked if there could be U.S. troops on the ground in the...
  
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• DeSantis designates Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization

  09-12-2025 14:56 via thehill.com
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday designated the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, following the lead of Texas, which took a similar step last month. DeSantis posted the executive order, “Protecting Floridians from Radical Islamic Terrorist Organizations,” to social platform X. The order directs Florida...
  
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• Susie Wiles: Trump 'going to campaign like it's 2024' ahead of midterms

  09-12-2025 14:54 via thehill.com
  
  White House chief of staff said President Trump will be a constant presence on the campaign trail ahead of next year’s midterm elections, saying in an interview on Monday that he will campaign like it’s 2024.“Typically in the midterms it’s not about who’s sitting at the White House. You localize the election and you...
  
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• Supreme Court weighs major campaign finance challenge backed by Vance

  09-12-2025 14:45 via thehill.com
  
  A major campaign finance battle will be heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the justices weigh whether to strike down federal restrictions on coordinated spending between political parties and their candidates.   Vice President Vance was one of the challengers. When he was a senator, he filed suit alongside former Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) and Republicans’ campaign committees in both chambers against the Federal Election Co
  
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• Trump says Ukraine should hold elections

  09-12-2025 14:43 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said in a new interview that Ukraine should hold elections despite being locked in war with Russia.  “They’re using war not to hold an election. I would think the Ukrainian people should have that choice,” Trump told Politico. “They talk about having a democracy but it gets to the point where it’s not...
  
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• Trump trashes 'weak' European leaders: 'They want to be politically correct'

  09-12-2025 14:39 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump in an interview published Tuesday railed against what he called "weak" leaders from Europe, complaining that they did not know what to do on migration and trade. Trump sat down with Politico after the outlet declared him the most influential person shaping Europe. In the interview, the president bemoaned that many nations in...
  
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• Live updates: Supreme Court hears campaign spending case; Trump heads to Pa. to tout economy

  09-12-2025 14:25 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Tuesday evening will travel to Pennsylvania, where he will deliver remarks as the White House tries to gain control of the narrative on affordability and the economy. Trump said in an interview published ahead of the trip that the economy under his second administration should get a grade of “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.” This morning,...
  
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• Trump rates economy 'A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus' ahead of event touting affordability

  09-12-2025 14:14 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump gave the economy under his second administration an “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” ahead of his trip to Pennsylvania to sell his efforts to bring down inflation on Tuesday.  The president made the comments during an interview with Politico that was conducted on Monday. During the interview, Trump was asked about one of his of his supporters...
  
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• The Movement: Warning signs emerge for MAGA populism over ObamaCare

  09-12-2025 14:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Movement is a weekly newsletter tracking the influence and debates steering politics on the right. Sign up here or in the box below. Republicans in Congress are on a path to letting enhanced ObamaCare subsidies expire at the end of the year, a result that could amount to a dismissal — or, depending on your perspective,...
  
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• Trump says Zelensky has to start 'accepting things': ‘He’s losing’

  09-12-2025 13:52 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky must begin making concessions in the effort to bring its nearly four-year war with Russia to an end. In a Monday interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, Trump was asked at what point he accepts Zelensky’s resistance to the U.S. peace deal proposal. “Well, he’s going to have to...
  
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• Trump tries to flip the script on affordability

  09-12-2025 12:45 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is attempting to shift the narrative on affordability with a speech in Pennsylvania, while Supreme Court hears a campaign finance case, Jasmine Crockett targets Trump with Senate bid, and voters head to polls in Miami and Albuquerque.
  
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• Trump to tout economic agenda in Pennsylvania as voters sour on costs

  09-12-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is set to travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to deliver a speech on the economy, a tacit acknowledgment that he and the White House must do more to address voters' concerns about heightened costs for Americans. Trump has so far in his second term made sparingly few domestic trips to tout his agenda,...
  
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• McMahon's first year has decimated the Education Department, but full elimination hovers out of reach

  09-12-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon have spent the first year of the second Trump administration working hard to fulfill his campaign promise to close the Education Department. From mass layoffs to moving programs to other federal agencies, McMahon is doing what she can to follow Trump’s executive order to dismantle her department....
  
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• From campaign stunt to 'double-tap' strikes: A brief history of militarizing drug enforcement

  09-12-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  It’s hard to remember that there was a Republican presidential nominating contest last year, but it really did happen. The reason it is so easy to forget is that the front-runner and inevitable winner didn’t really participate. Donald Trump shrewdly mostly ignored the likes of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki...
  
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• Charlamagne tha God criticizes Mamdani's messaging on Trump: 'That's actually how you normalize fascism'

  09-12-2025 05:13 via thehill.com
  
  Charlamagne tha God criticized New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s (D) messaging around President Trump, with whom Mamdani recently had a cordial meeting. “If you're, you know, Joe Biden, and you say, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, but then when Donald Trump wins the presidency, you standing outside the White House saying, ‘Welcome...
  
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• Cheryl Hines: RFK Jr. 'not going to run for president' in 2028

  09-12-2025 03:49 via thehill.com
  
  Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said her husband is “not going to run for president” in 2028. “Cheryl, is your husband going to run for president in 2028, and if so, are you ready for that?” NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas asked Hines on her show. “Gosh,...
  
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• Crockett's Senate launch video highlights audio of Trump insulting her

  09-12-2025 02:25 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Monday posted a Senate campaign launch video that features audio of President Trump insulting her. “Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough,” Crockett wrote in a post on the social platform X on Monday. Crockett’s post also featured a video in which she is facing sideways while audio clips of...
  
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• Burchett teases annual event: '15 minutes is all you need for a dadgum Christmas party'

  09-12-2025 00:21 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) teased his annual Christmas party in a social media post Monday. “Everybody's asking about the Christmas party and asking, ‘This legit?’ You can Google it. It's 15 minutes long this year. Last year, it went to 16, but we thought it dragged on too much. But, 15 minutes,” Burchett said in...
  
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• Young voters more likely to self-identify as liberal: Survey

  08-12-2025 23:54 via thehill.com
  
  Young voters are more likely to identify as liberal and are increasingly critical of President Trump's job performance, new polling conducted by the Yale Youth Poll found. Forty-six percent of voters under age 30 self-identified as liberal, the Monday poll shows. his marks an increase from spring polling, which found that 39.3 percent of voters...
  
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• DC police chief stepping down amid Trump National Guard push

  08-12-2025 23:30 via thehill.com
  
  Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Pamela Smith announced Monday she is stepping down at the end of this year, a little more than two years after starting the D.C. role. “I am deeply humbled, grateful, and deeply appreciative of my time with the District of Columbia,” Smith said in a statement. “Serving as Chief of...
  
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