The Senate early Saturday morning confirmed Todd Blanche as the next attorney general, with the nominee narrowly securing sufficient GOP backing after making a number of promises about how he would handle his tenure as the country’s top law enforcement officer.
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The Senate adjourned for a five-week recess early Saturday morning after passing a bill to fund the federal government until Dec. 11 and confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general.
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President Trump is touting the benefits of AI data centers after Texas moved to more strictly regulate the industry, which has rapidly become a political lightning rod across the political spectrum.
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New clouds darkened the economic landscape on Friday, as the latest employment report showed the nation shedding 23,000 jobs in July.
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By Alexander Bolton and Helen Huiskes
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The Senate voted early Saturday morning to fund the federal government until Dec. 11 with the aim of averting another government shutdown before the midterm election, sending the bill to the House before leaving for a five-week recess.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), President Trump and Senate conservatives reached a deal Friday night to set aside a vote on a budget resolution and defer action on much of the SAVE America Act until after the August recess, settling a fight that had divided Senate Republicans for weeks.
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Roughly 18 months into his second term, some of President Trump’s promises and projects domestically and abroad have faced a slew of setbacks and hurdles, yet the administration has not backed down.
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The U.S. Army removed a top general overseeing forces in Europe from command in recent days, close to two months before his time in the role is slated to end, two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters, told The Hill on Friday.
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A federal ban on most hemp-derived THC products is set to be delayed for a month after a last-minute effort to keep the original timeline failed.
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By Dov Zakheim, opinion contributor
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OPINION | It is no secret that the U.S. has seriously underestimated the rate of munitions expenditure in its conflict with Iran. In the course of the ten-week war and on-again off-again confrontations that have followed its supposedly formal conclusion, the Army reportedly has consumed most of its stockpile of long-range ATACMS and Precision Strike Missiles.
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By Marc L. Busch and Petros C. Mavroidis, opinion contributors
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OPINION | Congress never intended for Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act to be a general tariff statute. It wrote the statute as a targeted trade remedy. That distinction matters. In fact, it’s at the heart of the latest lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s Section 301 tariffs.
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By Madeleine Ngo and Hamed Aleaziz
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The Trump administration is facing pressure on the right to ramp up arrests of about 350,000 Haitians who recently lost their legal status after the Supreme Court cleared the way for termination of a humanitarian program allowing them to live and work in the United States for years.
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By Michelle Hackman and Marianne LeVine
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President Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin after Mullin made a series of off-message remarks recently that angered many of the president’s outside allies, according to people familiar with the matter.
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By Joseph Krauss and Amir-Hussein Radjy
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The Strait of Hormuz is, by some accounts, named for a Zoroastrian deity destined to emerge victorious after a 9,000-year standoff with an adversary.
Iran’s leaders feel their own victory is at hand and won’t require the same epic patience.
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By Liz Goodwin and Alexei Koseff
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Susan Collins, the Republican senator and political powerhouse, has built her victories in this blue state on voters like Kim Bridgham.
“I just gave her the benefit of the doubt,” the 62-year-old Democrat said of her decision to vote for Collins in 2020, while simultaneously backing Democrat Joe Biden. “I tend to be somewhat moderate, and I used to believe that she was a moderate.”
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