Politics

Trump Turns the Screws on the Fortune 500

Shares of Intel, the semiconductor manufacturer, tanked today after Donald Trump called on the company’s CEO to resign because of his past business dealings in China.It’s too early to make any asse...

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More heads roll at FBI

The Trump administration has launched another purge at the FBI, forcing out three law enforcement veterans including a former head of the agency, according to two people familiar with the developme...

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Trump announces federal law enforcement will patrol DC

The White House announced on Thursday that it will use federal law enforcement officers to help police Washington D.C.The move comes one day after President Donald Trump threatened to take over the...

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Questions loom over potential Trump-Putin summit

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter{beacon} Defense &National Security The Big Story Questions loom over potential Trump-Putin summit Preside...

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Democrats make a Trump-inspired U-turn on redistricting

The last time House Democrats held the majority, they made a sweeping package of good-government reforms — including an attempt to end partisan gerrymandering — a centerpiece of their legislative a...

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MAGA world swallows a difficult truth: Arresting Trump’s opponents is easier said than done

The calls from President Donald Trump’s MAGA base are getting noisier: Texas Democrats who fled the state to derail a hyperpartisan GOP redistricting maneuver should be criminally charged, arrested...

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Feral Cows and China Hawks: Inside the Dealmaking That Once Kept the Senate Running

I got the call from the National Security Council in the evening while I was out at a bar in Washington.The staffer had an unusual question: Should Jake Sullivan, then President Joe Biden’s nationa...

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‘He is completely upset’: Why Trump scrapped an India trade deal

India appeared on the fast track to a trade deal.An early White House visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led to months of negotiations. By July, the Indians believed they had struck an agreement...

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Trump teased a solution for farmers. It’s likely not coming soon.

President Donald Trump keeps saying he’ll solve the politically fraught problem of reconciling the need for undocumented farm labor with his mass deportation plan.But the White House does not appea...

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Trump wants to use racist math to reshape elections

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is directing the Department of Commerce to start work on a new U.S. census—one that would exclude undocumented immigrants from the population count...

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Federal judge orders two-week construction pause at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

MIAMI — A federal judge Thursday ruled construction must temporarily stop at “Alligator Alcatraz” as hearings challenging the Everglades-based detention center’s environmental impact continue.Distr...

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Cotton presses Hegseth to block noncitizens from Pentagon systems

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is pressing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to immediately ban non-U.S. citizens from accessing U.S. military computer systems. ...

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Florida moves toward joining national redistricting push

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The nation’s redistricting war is now officially coming to Florida.Citing a recent court ruling on the state’s congressional map, state House Speaker Daniel Perez said Thursd...

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Restoring Confederate memorial to cost $10M: Army official

The refurbishment of a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery will cost around $10 million over a roughly two-year period, according to an Army official. The monument...

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Epstein victims speak out: This ‘smacks of a cover up’

NEW YORK — Victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are alarmed over the Justice Department’s effort to unseal grand jury testimony in their cases and its cooperation with Maxwell, a convic...

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Cuomo takes page from Mamdani playbook

NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo released a pair of policy proposals Thursday designed to one-up the populist platform of Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.At a press briefing at a Midtown hotel, th...

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Pluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025)

Today's links Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Slinky treadmill; Ovipositors; Peter Thiel was right. Upcomi...

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Indiana Republicans remain silent on redistricting amid Vance meeting

INDIANAPOLIS — Republican Gov. Mike Braun remained noncommittal about a mid-decade redistricting push following his meeting with Vice President JD Vance in Indiana on Thursday.“We covered a wide ar...

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‘I don't see the point’: Mitch Daniels on Trump's redistricting push in Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS — Former Gov. Mitch Daniels said he didn't "see the point" of redistricting in Indiana, just as Vice President JD Vance was in the state pressing Republicans for an edge in the contest...

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FBI agrees to help chase down quorum-breaking Texas Democrats

The FBI approved Sen. John Cornyn’s request to locate the contingent of quorum-breaking Texas Democrats, the senator said Thursday, though it remains unclear how the agency would proceed in the abs...

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Trump Just Did What Not Even Nixon Dared

“Is it Goldstein again?” Richard Nixon demanded.In July of 1971, the president was infuriated that an unnamed official at the Bureau of Labor Statistics had seemed to downplay the administration’s ...

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