© Michael Conroy, The Associated Press |
President Trump's vow to seek revenge against the Indiana Republicans who rejected a new House map risks further dividing the party as it looks toward the midterms.
The president and his allies have made it clear they intend to support primary challenges against the Hoosier State Republicans who refused to vote for the map, but some fear the effort could divert the party's focus and splinter the party at a time when the GOP is desperately vying to keep its majority next year.
"It's an odd way to try to build a party, let alone one that can act and legislate," said former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R), who opposed efforts to redistrict mid-cycle. |
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President Trump is expected to announce that Israel and Hamas are moving to a second phase of his peace plan in early 2026, but there remains a host of challenges and unanswered questions for the countries signed up to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip.
A ceasefire implemented in October has held despite accusations of violations and fatal military attacks by both Hamas and Israel. The remains of all but one deceased Israeli hostage have been handed over by Hamas, a key requirement of the first phase of the deal.
Now pressure is increasing to move to the more complex next stage of Trump's plan, which calls for Hamas to give up its weapons and renounce control as Israel withdraws further from the Strip. |
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Measles outbreaks are spreading across the U.S., and the nation is likely to lose its status as a country where the disease is eliminated, something that infectious disease specialists say is directly related to President Trump's appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
South Carolina this week quarantined at least 254 people after confirming more than two dozen measles cases in the state. It's the latest in what has been the worst year for measles in the U.S. in recent history.
An outbreak in West Texas this year saw more than 700 confirmed cases since January and the deaths of two children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 47 reported outbreaks in the country this year. |
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CNN is finding itself in a familiar place as its parent company prepares to spin the network off as part of megamerger: President Trump's crosshairs.
Trump has indicated publicly and privately he wishes to see CNN operate under new ownership, a scenario that could come to fruition if Paramount, a massive media company increasingly friendly with the president, wins a hostile takeover bid for the cable news network and other assets belonging to Warner Bros. Discovery.
"It's imperative that CNN be sold," Trump told reporters at the White House this week. "I think CNN should be sold, because I think the people running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent." |
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Public interest in a third party is rising for both Republicans and Democrats as well as those who didn't vote during last year's presidential election, according to a new survey from Voto Latino obtained exclusively by The Hill.
The survey, conducted last month, revealed that 9 percent of all U.S. respondents said they could choose a third party candidate in the next presidential election.
Seven percent of those who voted in 2024 say they would choose a third-party option. And 14 percent of those who did not vote in last year's election said they would choose a third-party candidate. |
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin on Friday critiqued the Trump administration's handling on rising costs and affordability, with the DNC chair candidly acknowledging that "s— is too expensive."
The two spoke at the DNC's annual winter meeting in Los Angeles. Martin, who spoke first, told party members that Democrats need to "keep showing up for folks" and tell them "we get it and we're on it." "Look, we know what's important right now," he said. "S— is too expensive. Paychecks are getting eaten up by Trump's tariffs. Small businesses are getting torched by the man in the White House. The job market is dead, layoffs are spiraling toward Great Recession levels, and God forbid if you're a young person trying to break into your first career." |
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BY EMILY BROOKS AND NATHANIEL WEIXEL |
House Republicans on Friday unveiled a health care bill they will bring to a vote next week that includes items that are broadly popular in the party, like cost sharing reductions and reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager industry, but will exclude extension of expiring enhanced ObamaCare subsidies.
House GOP leaders will allow an amendment vote on extending expiring Obamacare subsidies, a GOP leadership aide signaled, in a concession to moderates who had been calling to go on the record on the matter. The exact contours of the amendment are not yet settled. "We expect that there will be an amendment that I believe is being worked on. So, the process will allow for that amendment," a House Republican leadership aide said. |
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Two lawsuits urging Wisconsin to redraw its congressional maps that currently favor the GOP may not be resolved until after the 2026 midterm elections, which could help President Trump's push for red state redistricting in order for Republicans to keep control of the House of Representatives.
Julie Zuckerbrod, an attorney representing Democrats in one of the lawsuits, argued to one of the two three-judge panels overseeing these cases that "it's absolutely possible" for a ruling by March 1, the deadline for when these maps would have to go into effect. Lawyers from each of the respective cases asked the panels for a March 2027 trial. Dane County Circuit Judge Julie Genovese said the panels will make a ruling or dismiss the cases "when we can decide them." |
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to change its tactics in immigration enforcement operations, moving away from sweeping raids that have been publicized in some cities across the country.
DHS sources told NewsNation's Ali Bradley that U.S. Border Patrol teams under Commander Gregory Bovino will narrow their focus to specific targets, such as immigrants in the country illegally who have been convicted of serious crimes. The change will see agents not necessarily carrying out larger raids that have taken place at locations such as Home Depot, according to Bradley's exclusive report. Agents will also focus on traffic stop enforcement, according to the reporting on NewsNation, The Hill's sister network. But it's unlikely that onlookers will see Border Patrol grabbing people off the streets, Bradley said Friday night on NewsNation's "The Hill" with Blake Burman. |
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BY RYAN BROWN AND MYAL GREENE |
OPINION | Recently, the global church marked the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. In congregations across this country and beyond, Christians lamented the violence experienced by those we consider our brothers and sisters in Christ, one in seven of whom globally face the threat of persecution.
President Trump has boldly acknowledged this plight, calling Christianity "the most persecuted religion on the planet" in his September address to the United Nations. |
OPINION | Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize this year, a powerful symbol of the country's democratic struggle. She recently traveled to Oslo against all odds — leaving Venezuela with the help of the U.S. administration after spending more than a year in hiding to avoid persecution by the Maduro regime. She arrived in time to take part in the celebrations, even if not to accept the prize herself.
That same day, on the other side of the Atlantic, tensions between Washington and Caracas escalated as the Trump administration seized a Venezuelan oil tanker. This comes as U.S. military forces maintain a visibly heavy presence in the Caribbean. |
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BY GLENN THRUSH AND ALAN FEUER |
Revenge, it turns out, is a dish best served with evidence.
On Thursday, federal grand jurors in Virginia rejected the Justice Department's push to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, on mortgage-related charges for the second time in a week. It handed a humiliating loss to President Trump, who has publicly demanded the prosecution of enemies he has singled out for retribution.
It was a moment worth marking. Federal grand juries almost never decline to bring an indictment once, much less twice. Such rejections, known as "no true bills," have been exceedingly rare, a misfire that often stigmatizes the prosecutors involved. |
President Trump needed a place to dump all the dirt from his demolition of the White House's East Wing.
One idea floated by aides: haul it to the Ellipse, a park that abuts the White House, to build up a better viewing perch for the president's UFC cage match on the South Lawn next year.
But Interior Secretary Doug Burgum proposed a more strategic solution, according to people with knowledge of the conversation. Why not send the dirt to East Potomac Golf Links—the public golf complex Trump hoped to renovate? |
BY JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI AND GRANT PECK |
Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after U.S. President Donald Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he had won agreement from both countries for a ceasefire.
Thai officials have said they did not agree to a ceasefire, and Cambodia has not commented on Trump's claim. Its defense ministry instead said Thai jets carried out airstrikes Saturday morning. Cambodian media reported Trump's claim without elaborating.
Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said Saturday that some of Trump's remarks didn't "reflect an accurate understanding of the situation." |
BY JOHN WOODROW COX AND SUSANNAH GEORGE |
The CIA-trained Afghan accused of opening fire outside the White House struggled for years to adapt to life in the United States, sharing his emotional turmoil in previously unreported social media posts that included broken hearts, a biblical prophecy of the world's end and a declaration that he was quietly crying but so aggrieved he could have screamed.
In his earliest public Facebook posts, which began soon after the U.S. government brought his family here in 2021, Rahmanullah Lakanwal shared nostalgic photos of his homeland that elicited hundreds of likes and comments from his sprawling online network. Beginning in 2023, his posts grew darker and more cryptic, sometimes drawing no more than three or four thumbs-ups. |
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