About 10,000 U.S. troops are now supporting anti-narcotics operations in the Caribbean region, a Pentagon official told The Hill on Thursday, a major troop buildup as the Trump administration ramps up its campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The majority of service members in the region are based in Puerto Rico, while aboard naval ships…
The Senate will vote on a massive defense spending bill on Thursday afternoon after Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) thrown a curveball In a fight over government funding earlier this week. Thune is effectively emboldening Democrats to oppose the $852 billion bill as the GOP seeks to shift the narrative from health care to military…
Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is pressuring red state voters to join the local “No Kings” protest on Saturday and pressuring his GOP legislators to end the government shutdown through his outreach with social media influencers and creators in Florida and North Carolina. The outreach, which was first shared with The Hill, includes interviews with content…
Border czar Tom Homan has been successful in reducing illegal infiltration at the US-Mexico border lowest level Since the early 1970s. But their internal enforcement measures have been hampered violent protest and a crisis-level immigration court backlog. Congress has tried to reduce the backlog by providing funds. additional immigration judgeBut Arrears There has been continuous…
Live video: Johnson speaking to reporters during the vote on the defense bill in the Senate The Senate will vote for the 10th time on a spending bill to reopen the government as the shutdown reaches its third week. The measure is expected to fail, and voting is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Immediately…
The purpose of health insurance is to help families, not threaten them. Yet, when big insurers, or their lobby in Washington, don’t get the policy results they want, they turn to the same lever: higher premiums. He doesn’t care. That’s pressure – and patients feel it first. We have seen this before also. In October…
Vice President Vance said on Wednesday that he did not want racist comments in this explosive young republican group chat To the detriment of the participants’ lives, they were dismissed as “stupid” jokes made by “kids”. In an interview on “The Charlie Kirk Show” — which is hosted by allies of the now-deceased conservative activist…
In August, standing with President Trump in Alaska, Russian PresidentVladimir Putin laughed While looking at a B-2 stealth bomber flyover. He understood its message. Yet he completely failed to understand how much Trump’s show of force meant to Putin and the Kremlin. Now, less than two months later, the full meaning of the B-2 flyover…
As Democrats look toward the midterms and the 2028 presidential election, a key data point has emerged about the last White House race: the number of Hispanics who live at home, supporting neither President Trump nor former Vice President Kamala Harris. New research from Voto Latino shows that Hispanic voter turnout had the most significant…
A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a man accused of starting the deadly Palisades fire in Los Angeles earlier this year. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is accused of opening fire in Lachman just after midnight local time on January 1. release After picking up an Uber passenger, from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central…
