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• DHS agents search Columbia dorm rooms after Khalil arrest

  14-03-2025 16:47 via thehill.com
  
  Department of Homeland Security agents searched two dorm rooms at Columbia University on Thursday night, the school said, a move that comes less than a week after the federal arrest of former grad student Mahmoud Khalil.“I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight,” interim Columbia President Katrina Armstrong said in a statement to the school.“No one was arrested or detain
  
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• Here's where Trump's approval rating stands on key issues

  15-03-2025 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump's approval ratings are showing signs of weakening nearly two months into his second term. While his efforts to crack down on immigration seem largely well-received, Trump’s performance on the economy has taken a hit amid whipsawing tariff plans followed by stock market losses. Though it was one of his biggest strengths throughout the 2024 campaign, the public’s view of Trump’s handling of the economy has started to drag on his overall approval rating. 
  
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• US launches ‘decisive and powerful’ strikes against Houthis in Yemen

  15-03-2025 21:45 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said the United States has launched “decisive and powerful” strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen, warning that the military “will use overwhelming lethal force” until the Iran-backed rebels stop their attacks on cargo ships and free up shipping lanes in the region. Trump wrote that the aerial attacks targeted Houthi bases, leaders and missile defense systems to “protect American shipping, air, and naval assets and to restore Navigational Fr
  
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• DOGE representatives visit US Institute of Peace, are turned away

  15-03-2025 21:18 via thehill.com
  
  U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) officials said several members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arrived unannounced with FBI agents on Saturday but were denied access to the building after being approached by their counsel.“They were met at the door by the Institute’s outside counsel who informed them of USIP’s private and independent status as a non-executive branch agency.  Following that discussion, the DOGE representatives departed,” Gonzo Ga
  
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• VOA journalists put on administrative leave after Trump axes parent agency

  15-03-2025 18:57 via thehill.com
  
  Journalists at Voice of America (VOA) were put on administrative leave on Saturday, a day after President Trump signed an executive order aimed at eliminating the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), VOA’s parent company. Reporters at VOA were placed on “administrative leave with full pay and benefits until otherwise notified,” according to a copy of an internal memo that was obtained by The Hill, adding that it is “not being done for any disciplinary purpose.&rdquo
  
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• Trump signs funding bill to avoid shutdown

  15-03-2025 18:09 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump signed the Republican-crafted spending bill to avert a government shutdown, the White House said on Saturday.The Republican-crafted bill will fund the government through Sept. 30 and caps off the first funding fight of Trump’s second term. The saga has also led to an internal war among Democrats on Capitol Hill.The legislation, that Trump had previously endorsed, boosts defense funding by $6 billion and imposes $13 billion in cuts to nondefense funding.T
  
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• The Memo: Divided Democrats squander chances to expose Trump’s vulnerability

  15-03-2025 17:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is not the political colossus he and his supporters claim — and everything from the stock market to his opinion poll ratings prove it.The problem for Democrats is that their own divisions — on everything from legislation to a broader uncertainty about the party’s direction — have rendered them unable to take advantage.The upshot is that even as Trump shows early signs of vulnerability, he is being spared the challenge of a unified, focused o
  
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• Vance: Musk has made some ‘mistakes’ with DOGE’s federal worker firings

  15-03-2025 15:13 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Vance said during an interview that senior President Trump adviser Elon Musk has made some “mistakes” with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) firings of federal government workers, adding that he thinks there are “a lot of good people” who work in government. “Elon himself has said that sometimes you do something, you make a mistake, and then you undo the mistake. I’m accepting of mistakes,” Vance said in an interview with
  
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• Leavitt says she'll skip White House Correspondents' Association dinner

  15-03-2025 13:59 via thehill.com
  
  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she will skip the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner slated for late April this year. “I will not be in attendance at the White House Correspondents’ dinner and that’s breaking news for the Sean Spicer Show,” Leavitt said during her Friday appearance on the show hosted by Sean Spicer, who served as President Trump’s first press secretary during his first term in office.
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• Trump signs order to dismantle seven federal agencies focused on media, libraries, homelessness

  15-03-2025 13:36 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies, including ones that focus on media, libraries, museums and ending homelessness.The president directed the government entities “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,” insisting they “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel.” It ordered the heads of each entity submit a report to the Office of Management and Bu
  
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• Trump pulls security clearance of Paul Weiss law firm

  15-03-2025 13:30 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump has continued his attack against prominent law firms, pulling the security clearances of attorneys at New York-based Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss), and restricting their employees from entering government buildings and receiving funds from federal contracts. Trump signed the order on Friday, directing that the security clearances of Paul Weiss employees be pulled “pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the nation
  
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• Charlamagne tha God: Schumer, Jeffries should step down

  15-03-2025 13:15 via thehill.com
  
  Radio host Charlamagne tha God on Friday slammed Democrats leadership in Congress, calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to step aside. “The party of inaction, the Democrats, have failed to protect the interest of the American people,” he said on his radio show “The Breakfast Club.” “And you know why Dems suck at messaging? Because they never talking about nothing and they do nothing.”
  
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• Trump says ISIS chief killed in Iraq

  15-03-2025 12:13 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Friday announced that ISIS’s second in command was killed in Iraq this week, touting it as an example of his administration’s “peace through strength” military philosophy. “He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters,” the president wrote on Truth Social Friday evening. “His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Governmen
  
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• Trump rolls back over a dozen Biden-era executive orders, actions

  15-03-2025 04:46 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump rolled back on Friday over a dozen former executive orders and directives signed by former President Biden focused on gender, labor policies and industry regulations. Trump signed an executive order late Friday that rescinded 18 executive actions signed by Biden during his four-year term in an effort to “reverse damaging policies and restore effective government,” according to a White House official. With Friday’s executive order signed, Trump has reve
  
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• Rubio declares South African ambassador to US 'persona non grata' over Trump comments

  15-03-2025 01:49 via thehill.com
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared South African ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool “persona non grata” and accused the diplomat of being a “race-baiting politician” over his recent comments about President Trump.“South Africa's Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country,” Rubio said in a Friday post on the social platform X. “Emrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have no
  
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• Congress averts a shutdown — but Democratic divisions ensue: 5 takeaways 

  15-03-2025 00:04 via thehill.com
  
  The Senate on Friday approved a House GOP-crafted spending bill hours before the shutdown deadline, capping off the first funding fight of President Trump’s second term — a saga that ripped apart the Democratic Party.The legislation funds the government through Sept. 30, boosts defense funding by $6 billion and imposes $13 billion in cuts to nondefense funding. Trump is expected to sign the measure, having previously endorsed it.The political fallout over the measure is reverberating
  
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• Video shows ICE's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil

  14-03-2025 22:56 via thehill.com
  
  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Friday released the full video of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest last weekend as outrage grows over his detention by immigration officials. Khalil was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday after playing a leading role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last year.The roughly eight-minute video, which was taken by Khalil’s wife Noor Abdalla, shows ICE agents
  
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• ACLU releases video of Mahmoud Khalil's ICE arrest

  14-03-2025 22:56 via thehill.com
  
  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Friday released the full video of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest last weekend as outrage grows over his detention by immigration officials. Khalil was arrested by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday after playing a leading role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last year.The roughly eight-minute video, which was taken by Khalil’s wife Noor Abdalla, shows ICE agent
  
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• Trump says Supreme Court justices 'get weak' in lambasting unfavorable coverage

  14-03-2025 22:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Friday lamented that Supreme Court Justices “can’t really fight back” and “get weak” in the face of unfavorable media coverage as he railed against what he framed as "horrible" treatment toward the nation's highest court.
  “What the lawyers do is, they're doing it to the Supreme Court Justices, hoping that they'll be overcome by the horrible things they say about them,” Trump said in remarks at the Department of Justice (DOJ), in which
  
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• Most disapprove of Trump's approach to Ukraine, Russia: Survey

  14-03-2025 22:31 via thehill.com
  
  Most Americans disapprove of President Trump’s approach to the country's relationship with Russia and his handling of the situation in Ukraine, according to a new survey published on Friday. The CNN poll, which was conducted by SSRS, found that 59 percent of respondents disapprove of Trump’s handling of Washington’s relations with Moscow. Some 41 percent said the opposite. Regarding Ukraine, 55 percent of U.S. adults disapprove of the president’s managing of the situ
  
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• Trump suggests media outlets be deemed illegal

  14-03-2025 22:25 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump railed against the media on Friday, suggesting that some of the actions of the press be deemed illegal and should be investigated.In a speech at the Department of Justice (DOJ), during which Trump railed against people and entities that he claims have targeted him, said that he views CNN and MSNBC as corrupt.“I believe that CNN and MS-DNC, who literally write 97.6 percent bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party and in my opinion, they’re really corrupt
  
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• Trump takes victory lap during Justice Department speech

  14-03-2025 22:11 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Friday visited the Justice Department (DOJ) for a remarkable victory lap eight weeks into his triumphant return to the White House.Trump has long blamed the department under his predecessor for unfairly targeting him in cases that involved dozens of serious criminal charges. But his visit visually solidified Trump’s grip on the Justice Department amid fears from critics that he may seek to diminish the agency’s independence and push for prosecution of his perceived
  
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• Trump suggests federal government take over DC if local leaders 'can't do the job'

  14-03-2025 21:36 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Friday suggested that the federal government could take over Washington, D.C., if the national capital’s administration “can’t do the job" as he pursues making the district "the talk of the world."
  “We're cleaning up our city. We're cleaning up this great capital, and we're not going to have crime and we're not going to stand for crime, and we're going to take the graffiti down and we're already taken to tents down there,” Trump said in a speech o
  
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• Fetterman claps back at Ocasio-Cortez on government funding vote

  14-03-2025 21:32 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who announced days ago that he would vote for a House-passed funding bill to avoid a government shutdown, said he doesn’t care about firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) harsh criticism of Democratic senators who will vote to advance the controversial bill.Fetterman said Ocasio-Cortez and other liberal lawmakers who are calling for the Senate to block the bill, which would fund government through Sept. 30, don’t have a viable exit stra
  
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• W.Va. Republican's bill would ban visas for Chinese students

  14-03-2025 21:23 via thehill.com
  
  Freshman Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) is backing legislation that would prohibit all Chinese nationals from obtaining student visas.The bill, dubbed the Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act (Stop CCP VISAs Act) would cut off the threat of Chinese students spying on the American government or stealing advanced technology, Moore said in a news release Friday."Every year we allow nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals to come to the U.S. on student visas. We&
  
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• West Virginia Republican's bill would ban visas for Chinese students

  14-03-2025 21:23 via thehill.com
  
  First-term Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) is backing legislation that would prohibit all Chinese nationals from obtaining student visas.The bill, dubbed the Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act (Stop CCP VISAs Act) would cut off the threat of Chinese students spying on the American government or stealing advanced technology, Moore said in a news release Friday."Every year we allow nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals to come to the U.S. on student visas. W
  
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• Trump praises Cannon in Justice Department speech

  14-03-2025 21:23 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump praised Judge Aileen Cannon during his speech at the Justice Department, calling her “strong” and “brilliant.”“We had an amazing judge in Florida, and her name is Aileen Cannon,” Trump said.Spectators, he said, “were hitting her so hard, public relations wise.”“They were saying she was slow, she wasn't smart, she was totally biased. She loved Trump. I didn't know her other than I saw her the couple of days that I was in court,
  
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• Canada's new PM on Trump's 51st state talk: 'It's crazy'

  14-03-2025 21:10 via thehill.com
  
  New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shut down President Trump’s talk of Canada potentially becoming the U.S.’s 51st state, characterizing it as “crazy” and vowing the North American neighbor will remain independent. Carney, a former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor who was sworn in as Canada’s leader on Friday, succeeding his predecessor Justin Trudeau, said Canada and the U.S. are "fundamentally different" nations and that Ottawa "expects respec
  
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• Republicans unveil bill relocating NASA headquarters to Florida

  14-03-2025 21:03 via thehill.com
  
  Republican Florida Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Mood introduced a bill on Friday proposing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters, currently in Washington, be moved to Florida.Titled Consolidating Aerospace Programs Efficiently at Canaveral (CAPE Canaveral) Act, the legislation would relocate the NASA headquarters to Florida’s Space Coast in Brevard County. The region houses the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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• Mace sued for defamation over allegations in stunning floor speech  

  14-03-2025 20:39 via thehill.com
  
  A man that Rep. Nancy Mace accused of being part of a group of “predators” in a stunning House floor speech is suing the South Carolina Republican for defamation. The complaint, filed in federal court on Friday, sets up a battle over the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause, which shields lawmakers against lawsuits for things they say and do as part of their legislative work. Mace’s office cited the protection in a press release about her floor rema
  
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