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• How CNN’s Peter Bergen Landed Historic Interviews With Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama

  02-05-2016 22:42
  
  The Obama administration has given CNN’s Peter Bergen unprecedented access to the White House for a special commemorating the fifth anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst who interviewed bin Laden back in 1997, one of only two interviews the terrorist mastermind ever granted to Western TV news organizations. “We Got Him,” the special that Obama hand-picked Bergen to host, airs tonight at
  
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• Trump gambles on tariffs as nation braces for economic fallout

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump took his biggest gamble yet on the economy Wednesday when he pressed forward with sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every country in the world.But in fulfilling a key campaign promise, he also ignored warnings that targeting key trading partners – from the likes of China, Japan and the European Union – will raise prices at home and risk the eruption of a global trade war.The tariffs also stand to inject a fresh round of uncertainty in the stock market and a slew
  
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• Speaker Johnson scrambles for solutions to parental proxy voting impasse

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scrambling to break the impasse over the push to allow proxy voting for new parents, as the standoff between GOP leadership and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) hardens.A band of nine Republicans, led by Luna, joined with Democrats Tuesday to torpedo a vote on a procedural rule that included language to thwart the proxy voting effort, halting unrelated key legislative business on the House floor and prompting leadership to send lawmakers home for the week.To re-ope
  
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• Political pendulum swings back toward Democrats

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Embattled Democrats have new reason to hope. The party has spent the early months of the year soul-searching the causes of a bitter election defeat and fighting internally over how best to counter President Trump and his fierce effort to dismantle the traditional workings of Washington. But Democrats this week have watched the political pendulum swing back sharply in their favor.In Wisconsin, they easily won a hard-fought battle for a coveted seat on the state Supreme Court, despi
  
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• Mistaken deportation to Salvadoran prison highlight stakes of Trump plans

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration’s admission that it sent a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in error shows the need for outside oversight, critics say, as they fight efforts to ship migrants to overseas facilities.Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, was sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) despite being granted protection from removal in 2019 by an immigration judge.The Trump team admitted the mistake — something
  
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• GOP may look to Trump for answer on Luna's proxy vote war

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  With the House at a standstill amid GOP disputes about proxy voting for new parents, a sense is growing that President Trump might have to weigh in to get them out of the chaos — and he is already being pulled into the battle.The arcane disputes on constitutionality, quorum, discharge petitions, procedural rules, and hardball tactics from leadership appeared to — understandably — be extremely low on the president’s priority list. White House Press Secretary Karo
  
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• Breaking down the Wisconsin, Florida special elections

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats on Tuesday scored a win in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, while Republicans held on to two seats in deep-red Florida districts, raising questions about what the results mean as both parties look ahead to next year’s midterms. While off-year special elections don’t see the same turnout as a general election, Democrats say President Trump and Elon Musk are proving to be turnout machines for their liberal base. Some Republicans have brushed off the results, ho
  
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• Republicans seen more favorably, more united than Democrats: Poll

  03-04-2025 04:43 via thehill.com
  
  Americans hold more favorable views of Republicans than Democrats, even as favorability remains grim across the board, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll.In the survey, released Wednesday, Republicans in Congress have a net negative 13 favorability — with 39 percent viewing them favorably and 52 percent unfavorably.Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, perform twice as poorly, with a net negative 29 favorability rating, including 31 percent who view them favorably and 60 percent w
  
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• Senate GOP unease sets in after Trump tariff rollout 

  03-04-2025 03:03 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Republicans are feeling increasingly uneasy after President Trump rolled out his “Liberation Day” batch of tariffs, which are threatening to further dent the U.S.'s economic standing after weeks of questions over what new levies would be included.Trump on Wednesday unveiled steep reciprocal tariffs against numerous nations, including allies and adversaries alike, that were larger than expected, setting off a sharp downturn on Wall Street in the futures market that could porten
  
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• Five things to know about Republicans’ new blueprint to pass Trump's agenda

  03-04-2025 01:35 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Republicans on Wednesday rolled out a 70-page blueprint to advance President Trump’s tax agenda, along with directions that could pave the way for more than a trillion dollars in cuts to government spending.The resolution comes after weeks of negotiations between House and Senate Republicans to reach a compromise on how to enact the president’s priorities. Republicans are pushing to quickly adopt the resolution to kickstart a complex process that will allow them to eventually
  
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• 5 things to know about Republicans’ new blueprint to pass Trump's agenda

  03-04-2025 01:35 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Republicans on Wednesday rolled out a 70-page blueprint to advance President Trump’s tax agenda, along with directions that could pave the way for more than a trillion dollars in cuts to government spending.The resolution comes after weeks of negotiations between House and Senate Republicans to reach a compromise on how to enact the president’s priorities. Republicans are pushing to quickly adopt the resolution to kick-start a complex process that will allow them to eventually
  
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• 5 takeaways from Trump's major tariff announcement

  03-04-2025 01:34 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump reset U.S. trade policy on Wednesday by announcing a 10-percent general tariff on all imports to the U.S. with the exception of Canada and Mexico, along with targeted tariffs on dozens of additional countries.The move makes good one of the central promises of Trump’s presidential campaign and represents a course correction in U.S. trade posture that Trump started during his first term.Trump’s general tariff follows two months of stop-and-start tariff announcements fro
  
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• Schumer on Trump's new tariffs: A 'huge tax on American families' to 'help billionaires get a tax cut'

  03-04-2025 01:24 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, calling them a “huge tax” on the average American family.“This is a huge tax on American families, all — all — to help billionaires get a tax cut,” Schumer said at the Capitol on Wednesday, suggesting the tariffs announced are intended to generate revenue to supplement the cost of extending the 2017 tax cuts.Trump announced a baseline 10 percent tar
  
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• Fine, Patronis sworn in after special Florida election, boosting thin GOP House majority

  03-04-2025 00:45 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday swore in newly elected Florida Reps. Jimmy Patronis (R) and Randy Fine (R).The two won special elections Tuesday, and their quick entry to the House gives Johnson some additional room to navigate the GOP’s razor-thin margin. The House now stands at 220 Republicans and 213 Democrats, meaning Johnson can lose three GOP votes and still pass a party-line bill. At one point this year, that margin stood at one vote.The two lawmakers, who were both endors
  
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• Sean Duffy’s daughter lays into Luna proxy voting push: 'Feel free to resign'

  03-04-2025 00:44 via thehill.com
  
  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughter, Evita Duffy-Alfonso, laid into the effort for proxy voting led by Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna after the House tanked a procedural rule on Tuesday.“When my baby sister was born with two holes in her heart and needed a very risky surgery, my father, @SecDuffy, knew he needed to be at home with his newborn daughter, my mother, and my eight siblings,” Duffy-Alfonso, 25, posted on the social platform X.“So my dad re
  
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• USDA freezes funding for Maine schools over transgender athletes

  03-04-2025 00:27 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it had frozen federal funds for some Maine education programs over the state’s refusal to ban transgender students from girls’ and women’s sports as ordered by President Trump and his administration. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the freeze following a letter sent to Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) explaining funding would be paused “for certain administrative and technological functions in schools.”
  
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• Trump says Great Depression would never have started if tariffs continued

  03-04-2025 00:20 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while announcing his massive tariff plan to hit trading partners.The president argued that before the income tax on U.S. citizens was established in 1913, the U.S. leaned into tariffs and was collecting money from other countries. Then, he argued that the U.S. ended tariffs, despite a tariff act from President Herbert Hoover at the time.“In 1929, it all came to a very ab
  
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• Johnson: ‘Working on every possible accommodation’ for mothers amid parental proxy voting impasse

  03-04-2025 00:19 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said he is “working on every possible accommodation” to make it easier for mothers to serve in Congress amid the impasse between GOP leadership and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) over parental proxy voting.“Proxy voting aside, I am actively working on every possible accommodation to make Congressional service simpler for young mothers,” Johnson wrote on X. “As the pro-family party, our aim as Republicans is to support those
  
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• Crockett responds to Bondi's 'threat' over Musk criticism

  03-04-2025 00:17 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday pushed back against Attorney General Pam Bondi after the Justice Department head criticized the Texas Democrat’s comments about tech billionaire Elon Musk being “taken down” multiple times.“To have her go on Fox News, and to then decide that she wanted to send a threat to me, it was wrong,” Crockett said during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight hearing. “Because here it is, she is the highest law enfo
  
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• Senate, House GOP split over size of debt-limit increase

  02-04-2025 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  A major discrepancy has already arisen between Senate and House Republicans in the budget resolution they plan to adopt in order to pass President Trump's domestic agenda.The 70-page resolution Senate Republicans unveiled Wednesday afternoon would serve as a blueprint, laying out instructions lawmakers will use to write a final bill full of Trump's top priorities. The House and Senate previously passed competing resolutions and have spent weeks trying to get on the same page.But Senate Republica
  
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• Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs: Here's how much countries are getting hit

  02-04-2025 22:57 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday announced he was imposing reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations, citing what he called years of unfair trade practices.Trump announced in the Rose Garden that all foreign countries would face a baseline 10 percent tariff, but several nations are being hit with steeper tariffs on imports.
  Trump said those reciprocal tariffs will be calculated by combining the rate of tariffs and nonmonetary barriers such as currency manipulation, and then dividing that total in half
  
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• Trump reaches deal with another major law firm

  02-04-2025 22:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump announced Wednesday that he reached another deal with a major law firm, Milbank LLP, as he seeks to punish organizations with ties to his political critics.
  Milbank is the latest in a string of firms looking to cut a deal with the president after he signed orders in recent weeks reviewing security clearances and government contracts for several Big Law companies, which he says have acted improperly.In his announcement, Trump said Milbank has agreed to perform at least $100 millio
  
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• Trump imposes 10 percent global tariffs; higher rate for ‘worst offenders’

  02-04-2025 22:36 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday announced a baseline 10 percent tariff on imports from all foreign countries, as well as higher tariff rates for dozens of nations that the White House deemed the “worst offenders” when it came to trade barriers.The 10 percent tariff will go into effect on Friday. About 60 countries facing a higher reciprocal tariff will see those rates go into effect on April 9 at 12:01 a.m. Trump also announced a 25 percent tariff on all foreign-made automobiles that wi
  
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• Former aide slams California Democrat in video announcing primary campaign

  02-04-2025 22:22 via thehill.com
  
  Jake Rakov, a former aide to Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), on Wednesday announced he is launching a primary challenge against his former boss.In a video announcing his campaign, Rakov directly criticized Sherman, who is serving his 15th term in the House, as out of touch with his constituents who want him to take a stronger stand against the Trump administration.“If you want to know why we as Democrats are so bad at fighting back against Trump, look at guys like my former boss,” he s
  
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• Most think Trump will attempt to serve third term: Survey

  02-04-2025 22:08 via thehill.com
  
  Most voters in a new poll predicted President Trump will attempt to serve a third term in the White House, despite a constitutional restriction limiting presidents to two terms.A survey from YouGov found 56 percent of U.S. adults thought Trump “probably” or “definitely” would try to serve again, compared to 28 percent who said the opposite and 15 percent who said they weren’t sure. The results come after Trump over the weekend said he’s “not joking&
  
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• Hochul knocks ICE over 'just plain cruel' detention of family

  02-04-2025 21:48 via thehill.com
  
  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said it was “just plain cruel” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to detain a family, including a child in third grade, from their home in upstate New York.In a Tuesday statement, Hochul said she is willing to work with the Trump administration on immigration enforcement but said this latest incident went too far by targeting an “innocent family.”“Under Presidents Biden and Trump, I have been clear that I would w
  
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• Charges dismissed against Illinois man accused of assault by Nancy Mace

  02-04-2025 21:41 via thehill.com
  
  WASHINGTON (WCBD) — Federal prosecutors moved Tuesday to dismiss charges against a man who Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) accused of assaulting her during an event at the Capitol last year. Mace accused James McIntyre of Illinois, a national foster care advocate, of accosting her during a Dec. 10 reception celebrating the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.She claimed the assault came in response to her efforts to bar transgender women from using wom
  
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• Rand Paul: 'Fallacy' to think tariffs will help country

  02-04-2025 21:02 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that it is a “fallacy” to think tariffs will help the country's economy as President Trump gears up to impose massive reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners.
  Paul, who has spoken out against tariffs previously, joined The Hill’s “Rising” on Wednesday, where he discussed his disagreement with tariffs, calling them “a tax.”“On tariffs, I think it’s just economically — it’s a fallacy to thin
  
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• US sanctions network helping to get weapons for Houthis

  02-04-2025 20:58 via thehill.com
  
  The United States sanctioned an alleged network of financial facilitators, procurement operatives and companies on Wednesday that are getting weapons, dual-use materials and stolen Ukrainian grain to Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the Treasury Department announced on Wednesday. Two operatives — brothers who are based in Russia — Afghani businessmen Hushang Ghairat and Sohrab Ghairat, have assisted Sa’id al-Jamal, a senior Houthi financial operative who is backed by the Iran
  
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• Senate Republican on Trump tariffs: 'Let's give it a shot and see what happens'

  02-04-2025 20:43 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Tuesday welcomed President Trump’s tariffs, encouraging others to “give it a shot and see what happens.”“Our country’s going in the wrong direction, $37 trillion in debt,” Tuberville told reporters in a clip that aired on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday, hours before Trump is expected to announce a new tariff regime.“We’ve got to get manufacturing back to the country, people back to w
  
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