Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced Tuesday that Republicans will push forward this week on a budget blueprint that would channel an additional $70 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, enough to keep the agencies funded through at least January 20, 2029,…
A Houston federal judge on Tuesday dismissed FBI Director Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit against former FBI counterintelligence chief Frank Figliuzzi, ruling that Figliuzzi's televised claim that Patel spent more time in nightclubs than at bureau headquarters was protected speech, not a statement of fact. U.S.…
The FBI opened a formal investigation into several Republican members of Congress in January 2021, days after prosecutors handling the case privately called the allegations behind it "embarrassing," "appalling," and "completely incredible," according to internal government records obtained by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley. The…
In January, BART, the subway and rail system serving San Francisco and its suburbs, reported that crime on its trains fell 41 percent in 2025. The agency installed 715 new fare gates across all 50 stations. Fare gates are the waist-high turnstiles riders must pass…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat across from NBC's Kristen Welker on Sunday and did what politicians do when every honest answer carries a cost: he said nothing at all. Asked repeatedly whether Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should mount a primary challenge against Sen. Chuck…
A pair of radical activist groups, one that openly calls itself a communist training ground, the other that dismissed the October 7 massacre as "chickens coming home to roost", have been picketing and petitioning outside New York City Hall to push the City Council toward…
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed multiple witnesses to testify before a grand jury in Washington as part of the Justice Department's investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, three people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press on Monday. At least three subpoenas went out…
Sen. Cory Booker brought a preacher's cadence and a candidate's ambition to the Michigan Democratic Convention, delivering a roughly 25-minute address that urged party faithful to become "foot soldiers" and turn the "Michigan hand" into the "Michigan fist." The New Jersey Democrat's performance drew cheers…
President Trump flatly rejected his own Energy secretary's timeline on falling gas prices Monday, telling The Hill that Chris Wright was "totally wrong" to suggest Americans might not see sub-$3 fuel until next year. The public contradiction, delivered in a phone interview, exposed a visible…
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from two Massachusetts parents who say a public school secretly encouraged their child's social gender transition, using a new name and pronouns behind their backs while presenting a different picture in every communication sent home.…
More than $64 million poured into a single Virginia ballot referendum on congressional redistricting, the vast majority of it from national Democratic figures, labor unions, and dark money groups tied to billionaire megadonor George Soros. The money dwarfed opposition spending by more than three to…
A propane explosion tore through a family home in Lamar Township, Pennsylvania, on Sunday morning, killing a 34-year-old mother and all six of her children. The father, David F. Stolzfus, survived only because he was not home when the blast struck around 8:30 a.m. State…
Nancy Sinatra lashed out at President Donald Trump on Sunday after he shared a video of Frank Sinatra performing "My Way" on his Truth Social platform, calling the post "a sacrilege" and lamenting that she has no power to stop it. The public rebuke, delivered…
President Trump on Saturday signed a 10-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, keeping the government's most contested surveillance authority alive through April 30 after House Republicans could not agree on a longer renewal. The signing averted a Monday expiration but…
