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• Bondi says mistakenly deported man 'not coming back to our country'

  16-04-2025 16:22 via thehill.com
  
  Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Trump administration failed to take “one extra step of paperwork” before it mistakenly deported a Maryland man, adding that nonetheless Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “not coming back to our country.”The comments were the latest example of officials under President Trump digging in despite a Supreme Court order requiring them to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.Bondi also repeated numerous claims about Abrego Ga
  
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• Vance to lead US delegation for Pope Leo’s inaugural mass

  15-05-2025 15:43 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Vance will lead the U.S. delegation to the inauguration mass of Pope Leo in Vatican City on Sunday, his office announced on Thursday.The vice president will be joined by second lady Usha Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette Rubio, for the first American pope’s inauguration.Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019 and met with the late Pope Francis last month just before he died. He is the second Catholic vice president in U.S. history, following former
  
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• Just 28 percent support ending birthright citizenship: Survey

  15-05-2025 15:43 via thehill.com
  
  Nearly 30 percent of Americans signaled support for ending birthright citizenship, while a slim majority said the opposite, according to a new survey.The NPR/Ipsos poll, published Thursday, found that 28 percent of adults support ending birthright citizenship — the 14th Amendment principle that says anyone born within the U.S. and subject to its laws has guaranteed citizenship. On the other side, 53 percent said they oppose ending it, relatively unchanged since February, and 17 percent sai
  
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• Bruce Springsteen on Trump: US 'in hands of corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration'

  15-05-2025 15:13 via thehill.com
  
  Bruce Springsteen is using his voice to lambast President Trump, saying the country is "currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.""There’s some very weird, strange and dangerous s--- going on out there right now. In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent," Springsteen, who backed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in last year's presidential race, said Monday as he kicked off his Land of Hope a
  
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• Trump weighs in ahead of Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship

  15-05-2025 14:27 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Thursday made the case for his administration’s view on ending birthright citizenship ahead of Supreme Court arguments on the issue, arguing the current policy shows the U.S. is a “stupid country.”“Big case today in the United States Supreme Court. Birthright Citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them, all the time laughing at the ‘SUCKER
  
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• Homan on Ocasio-Cortez warning of 'problem' if Democrats arrested: 'You can't intimidate me'

  15-05-2025 14:06 via thehill.com
  
  Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who recently warned administration officials they would face a “problem” if they continued to arrest Democratic Party lawmakers. Homan said Tuesday that he cannot be intimidated while claiming Ocasio-Cortez was insufficiently grateful to immigration officials for keeping her district safe. "First of all, you can‘t intimidate me. Come on, give me a break. You know, I w
  
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• Trump on Putin skipping Ukraine peace talks: 'Why would he go if I'm not going?'

  15-05-2025 13:15 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said Thursday he was not surprised that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a no-show for peace talks with Ukraine being held in Turkey, attributing it to his own absence.“I actually said, ‘Why would he go if I’m not going?’” Trump told reporters in Qatar. “I would go, but I wasn’t planning to go, and I said 'I don’t think he’s going to go if I don’t go.'"The president left open the possibility of going to Turkey on Fri
  
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• Trump suggests US 'take' Gaza, make it 'freedom zone'

  15-05-2025 13:08 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Thursday suggested the U.S. would look to take control of the Gaza Strip and turn it into a “freedom zone,” highlighting one of his more controversial foreign policy proposals during a visit to Qatar."I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good. Make it a freedom zone, let the United States get involved, and make it just a freedom zone" Trump said during a business roundtable."I'd be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone,
  
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• Trump says Iran 'has sort of' agreed to terms of nuclear deal

  15-05-2025 12:51 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Thursday teased that the U.S. and Iran were inching closer to an agreement on a nuclear deal, saying the two sides were in “very serious negotiations” for “long-term peace.”“You probably read today the story about Iran has sort of agreed to the terms,” Trump told reporters at a business roundtable in Qatar.“They’re not going to make — I call it, in a friendly way, nuclear dust. We’re not going to be making any nuclear
  
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• Trump gets unlikely visitors at White House: Democrats

  15-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump in recent weeks has seen an uptick of unlikely visitors at the White House and his Florida home at Mar-a-Lago: Democrats. The latest example came last week when Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared in the Oval Office, all but discarding the hard-edged approach she took with Trump during his first administration. Bowser was the second prominent Democrat in the room in a month.Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared at the White House in April, even if she was caught o
  
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• 'Tremendous opportunity': Trump sets new course for US-Syria relations

  15-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump bucked critics in his administration and security hawks in Israel in his decision to lift sanctions on Syria and embrace its new leader, a U.S.-designated terrorist who formerly had ties with al Qaeda and the Islamic State group (ISIS). Trump’s decision is a hard-won victory for humanitarian advocates, supportive American lawmakers and Gulf and Arab leaders who view the new government in Damascus as a historic opportunity to reshape the Middle East, following the ousti
  
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• GOP lawmakers signal discomfort with Trump Qatar jet, Middle East diplomacy

  15-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Republican lawmakers are raising concerns about elements of President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, expressing discomfort about the president’s decision to accept a luxury jet from Qatar and voicing reservations about lucrative Trump family business dealings in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Republicans on Capitol Hill are also asking whether Trump has done enough to loop Israel into negotiations with Houthi rebels in Yemen and his admini
  
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• Gingrich praises Trump for extending olive branch to Syria

  15-05-2025 05:25 via thehill.com
  
  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) touted President Trump’s efforts to thaw tensions with the new government in Syria, describing the move as strategically savvy, though risky.“When the Crown Prince [of Saudi Arabia] and the president of Turkey both asked him [Trump] to give Syria, the new Syrian government, a chance, he intuitively just said, ‘Sure,’” Gingrich told hosts John Catsimatidis & Rita Cosby on the “Cats & Cosby Show” on W
  
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• House GOP Agriculture bill advances out of committee

  15-05-2025 05:24 via thehill.com
  
  The House Agriculture Committee voted to advance legislation that would make significant changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as a part of the effort to institute federal spending cuts to pay for President Trump’s legislative agenda. The legislation directs states to cover a portion of SNAP benefit costs, narrows eligibility requirements for the program, and aims to prevent the federal government from being able to increase monthly benefits in the future.It
  
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• Rahm Emanuel teases potential presidential bid: 'I am in training'

  15-05-2025 04:31 via thehill.com
  
  Former White House chief of staff and Democratic politician Rahm Emanuel teased a potential presidential bid on ABC’s “The View” Wednesday.During his appearance on “The View,” Emanuel discussed topics that included President Trump’s presidency and Democrats’ election chances.“Everybody in this audience, they just want one thing, their kids to have a shot,” Emanuel said. “And the problem is Washington’s giving them the shaft. And t
  
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• Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova charged with smuggling as she fights deportation

  15-05-2025 03:42 via thehill.com
  
  Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist and researcher at Harvard University, was charged on Wednesday with one criminal count of smuggling goods into the country.The criminal charge represents an escalation by the Trump administration in a case that has drawn international scrutiny from academics and scientists throughout the world.Petrova, 30, was already facing deportation after failing to disclose frog embryos she brought into the country from France in February. After Customs and Border P
  
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• Ben & Jerry's co-founder removed from RFK Jr. hearing for protesting

  15-05-2025 03:01 via thehill.com
  
  Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen was removed from a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing featuring Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday for protesting.About 15 minutes into the Wednesday hearing, protestors began to shout, and people were forced out of the room. Amid the chaos, Cohen is seen standing up in the seating area behind Kennedy and shouting, “Congress pays for bombs.”Shortly after, Cohen was taken
  
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• Top Biden aides iced out Cabinet from president, book claims

  15-05-2025 00:54 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Biden iced out key members of his Cabinet during the second half of his term in the White House, according to a preview of a new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson.In Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Tapper revealed new details of his book, including from conversations with three unnamed Cabinet secretaries, who “told us that Biden's inner circle shielded the president from them in 2023 and 2024,” Tappe
  
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• 4 takeaways from RFK Jr.'s dual congressional hearings 

  15-05-2025 00:29 via thehill.com
  
  Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified during back-to-back hearings in the House and Senate on Wednesday for the first time since his confirmation.Kennedy faced questions on vaccines, canceled medical research, and his drastic overhaul of the federal health agency during the hearings about President Trump's budget request, which could lead to even greater cuts.  Here are some key takeaways:  Defends vaccine messagingDemocrats u
  
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• Temperatures rise over House Democrats’ scuffle with ICE agents

  15-05-2025 00:22 via thehill.com
  
  Temperatures are rising over an altercation between three Democratic lawmakers and immigration agents at a detention center in New Jersey, as Democrats say the administration is using the incident to improperly target political opposition. Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem this week accused Garden State Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver of “committing felonies” during the Friday scuffle with law enforcement at Delaney Hall and
  
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• Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lawler get salty in fight over tax demands

  15-05-2025 00:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took aim Wednesday at one of the most vulnerable House Republicans as he and several of his blue-state colleagues threaten to tank President Trump's signature policy bill.In a Wednesday post on social platform X, Greene blasted Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) for pushing House Republican leadership for a higher state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap in the chamber's "one big, beautiful bill."The tax portion of the measure, which passed a House committee Wednesday
  
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• Democratic senators call for probe into whether Trump is 'intervening' to aid Musk's Starlink

  14-05-2025 23:55 via thehill.com
  
  A group of Democratic senators called for a federal investigation into whether the Trump administration is using trade negotiations with foreign governments to benefit SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s Starlink initiative.In a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi, acting Director of the Office of Government Ethics Jamieson Greer, White House designated agency ethics official Scott Gast, and the State Department’s acting Inspector General Arne Baker, the senators pointed to recent repo
  
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• 64 percent of Jewish voters disapprove of Trump efforts to fight antisemitism: Poll

  14-05-2025 23:39 via thehill.com
  
  More than half of Jewish American voters disapprove of President Trump’s efforts to combat antisemitism, according to a new poll.In the Jewish Voters Resource Center poll, 64 percent of respondents said they either “strongly disapprove” or “somewhat disapprove” when it comes to “the job Donald Trump is doing combatting antisemitism.” And 36 percent said they either “strongly approve” or “somewhat approve” of his efforts.On Tuesday
  
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• Dem drops effort to force impeachment vote — for now

  14-05-2025 23:24 via thehill.com
  
  The House will not vote this week on resolutions related to impeaching President Trump, lending a victory to Democratic leaders who have been cold to the idea. Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) has introduced seven articles of impeachment, and this week he launched the process of forcing his resolution to the House floor for a vote. GOP leaders responded by scheduling a vote Wednesday evening to table, or kill, his resolution.But on Wednesday, Thanedar said he would drop the effort — at le
  
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• Celsius, compression socks and Cava: How lawmakers survived an all-nighter

  14-05-2025 23:08 via thehill.com
  
  The House Energy and Commerce Committee burned the midnight oil.The panel — which has jurisdiction over one of the largest parts of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” — held an around-the-clock markup this week, kicking off the action at 2 p.m. on Tuesday and continuing through the night before finally wrapping up at roughly 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.The 26.5 hour confab was not the panel’s longest. That distinction belongs to a 2017 markup of the Republic
  
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• Ukraine’s allies prepare to call Putin’s bluff on peace talks in Turkey

  14-05-2025 22:55 via thehill.com
  
  Ukraine’s supporters in Europe and Washington expect a summit Thursday in Turkey, proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, to fall apart and convince President Trump that Moscow is an untrustworthy partner. Putin on Sunday proposed direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul. Late Wednesday, the Kremlin announced its delegation for Turkey, but it did not appear to include any of the high-level Russian officials who had previously met with U.S. negotiators. The list also did not
  
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• Judge rules DOJ canceled grants to lawyers' group as retaliation for criticism

  14-05-2025 22:49 via thehill.com
  
  A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from canceling the American Bar Association’s (ABA) federal grants. The professional group filed a lawsuit alleging officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) struck funding for services to victims of domestic and sexual violence in retaliation for joining a separate lawsuit against the Trump administration. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche also prohibited DOJ attorneys from participating in events sponsored by t
  
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• Republicans advance bill with steep cuts to Medicaid as part of Trump agenda

  14-05-2025 22:28 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced legislation Wednesday afternoon containing cuts to Medicaid and health care provisions — some of the most controversial and contentious provisions that will be included in the "big, beautiful bill" of President Trump's ambitious legislative agenda.The panel voted along party lines 30-24 after a marathon meeting that lasted more than 26 hours with just two breaks for House votes. The bill now heads to the House Budget Comm
  
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• USAID contractor sought attorney to investigate dismantled agency's former employees

  14-05-2025 21:49 via thehill.com
  
  A government contractor sought to hire a lawyer to work at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to conduct investigations into the dismantled agency’s former staff, including for “unauthorized communications with the media.”The job posting from Highlight Technologies — deleted Tuesday afternoon following inquiries from The Hill — said the attorney would be located within USAID’s Office of General Counsel and seeks a candidate who will handle &
  
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• Dems press impeachment sponsor to abandon the effort — to no avail

  14-05-2025 21:18 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats on Wednesday pressed hard on Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) to abandon his effort to force a vote on impeaching President Trump.During the day's first series of House votes, a host of influential Democratic lawmakers — including Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) — approached Thanedar and engaged in intense conversations with the second-term Democrat, both on the chamber floor and in the Speaker's lobby just outsid
  
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