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• Poll: Majority of Americans think Trump is too close to Russia

  13-03-2025 22:08 via thehill.com
  
  A majority of Americans think President Trump in too closely aligned with Russia, including more than a quarter of Republicans, a poll released on Thursday found.The Reuters/Ipsos survey says 56 percent of Americans agreed with the statement that the president is too close to Moscow, which included 27 percent of Republicans and 89 percent of Democrats.Forty-four percent of Americans support Trump’s plan to condition military aid to Ukraine and the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal, the poll
  
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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.
  Scott's office c
  
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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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• Democrats dropping more f-bombs than in 'The Big Lebowski': Former Bush spokesperson

  14-03-2025 20:10 via thehill.com
  
  Former Bush spokesperson Pete Seat slammed Democrats for their criticism of the Trump administration's policies, saying that party lawmakers are dropping more “f-bombs than there are in 'The Big Lebowski.'”Seat made the comments on CNN on Thursday in response to Rep. Maxine Waters's (D-Calif.) statement earlier in the day accusing Trump of seeking to start a civil war."But as I listen to her and her apocalyptic premonitions, and then I see some of her colleagues in the House of Repre
  
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• Jeffries mum on confidence in Schumer

  14-03-2025 20:09 via thehill.com
  
  House Democratic leaders are staying mum on their assessment of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) amid the uproar over his support for advancing a controversial Republican spending bill. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D), a fellow New Yorker, has made clear that he opposes the GOP bill and wants Senate Democrats to kill it in the upper chamber. But asked multiple times on Friday if he has confidence in the Senate leader after Schumer announced he would join Republicans
  
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• Dozens of House Democrats pen letters to Schumer urging him to reject CR

  14-03-2025 19:55 via thehill.com
  
  Dozens of House Democrats signed on to a pair of letters to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schuner (D-N.Y.) on Friday, urging him to oppose the House GOP’s government funding bill as the upper chamber prepares to take a key procedural vote on the measure.The full-court press comes one day after Schumer broke with House Democrats and announced he would vote to advance the continuing resolution — crafted by House GOP lawmakers — prompting outrage throughout the Democratic Party.In
  
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• FBI investigating fake 'SWAT' calls against conservative media figure

  14-03-2025 19:14 via thehill.com
  
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it would launch a probe into fake swatting calls after noticing an uptick in pranks involving conservative media figures that have warranted a response from law enforcement.“I want to address the alarming rise in ‘Swatting’ incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrot
  
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• DHS revokes visa of one Columbia student, arrests another pro-Palestinian protester

  14-03-2025 19:04 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Friday it has revoked the visa of one Columbia University student and arrested another person involved in the pro-Palestinian protests, escalating its crackdown on those engaged in demonstrations over the conflict in Gaza.The stripping of the visa comes just days after the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a former grad student at the university, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Khalil has a green card, which can only be revoked by an i
  
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• DHS revokes visa of one Columbia student, arrests another

  14-03-2025 19:04 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Friday it has revoked the visa of one Columbia University student and arrested another, escalating its crackdown on students engaged in protests over the conflict in Gaza.The stripping of the visa comes just days after the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a former grad student at the university, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Khalil has a green card, which can only be revoked by an immigration judge.But Ranjani Srinivasan, a cit
  
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• House GOP promotes use of 'Taiwan' over 'Chinese Taipei' in slight to Beijing

  14-03-2025 18:27 via thehill.com
  
  A group of House Republicans is introducing legislation to assert Taiwan as the official name of the independently-governed island in U.S. communication, pushing back against claims to the territory by the Chinese government in Beijing.Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) authored the America Supports Taiwan Act on Friday, legislation that would eliminate any reference to “Chinese Taipei” in U.S. communication and replace it with “Taiwan.” Reps. Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Barry Moore (
  
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• House GOP promote use of 'Taiwan' over 'Chinese Taipei' in slight to Beijing

  14-03-2025 18:27 via thehill.com
  
  A group of House Republicans is introducing legislation to assert Taiwan as the official name of the independently-governed island in U.S. communication, pushing back against claims to the territory by the Chinese government in Beijing.Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) authored the “America Supports Taiwan Act” on Friday, legislation that would eliminate any reference to “Chinese Taipei” in U.S. communication and replace it with “Taiwan.” Reps. Mike Collins (R-Ga.),
  
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• Waltz: Russia, Ukraine peace deal likely to include Donbas region cession

  14-03-2025 18:25 via thehill.com
  
  National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said Ukraine would likely have to cede some of its Donbas region to Russia if it wants a long-term peace deal.
  The comments, during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, come as the Trump administration pressures Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine.Trump officials have previously signaled that Ukraine should not expect to return to its pre-2014 borders as part of the peace talks, which effective
  
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• Watch live: Jeffries speaks as Senate Democrats face funding bill vote

  14-03-2025 18:15 via thehill.com
  
  House Democratic leadership is slated to hold a press conference as their counterparts in the Senate face down a nail-biter vote on government funding.Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his leadership team have urged Senate Democrats to hold firm and block a GOP-written six-month stopgap funding bill that passed the House earlier this week. The measure needs eight Democratic votes to overcome the Senate filibuster.But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday announced
  
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• Khalil felt 'he was being kidnapped': Lawyers

  14-03-2025 18:02 via thehill.com
  
  Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil told his lawyers he felt as if he was being “kidnapped” while being detained by different law enforcement officers and agents in New York on Saturday for his orchestration of role in pro-Palestinian protests on the school’s campus last year. “Throughout this process, Mr. Khalil felt as though he was being kidnapped. He was reminded of prior experience fleeing arbitrary detention in Syria and forced disappeara
  
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• Pelosi shades Schumer on funding bill: ‘Listen to the women’

  14-03-2025 17:36 via thehill.com
  
  Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday issued a blistering statement on how senators should handle a government funding vote that, without naming him, dinged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).“Democratic senators should listen to the women,” Pelosi said. “Appropriations leaders Rosa DeLauro [D-Conn.] and Patty Murray [D-Wash.] have eloquently presented the case that we must have a better choice: a four-week funding extension to keep government open a
  
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• Watch: Trump speaks at the Department of Justice

  14-03-2025 17:25 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump delivered remarks to the Department of Justice on Friday afternoon.Trump told reporters on Thursday the speech would include his ideas for the department and “the complete gamut” of policy proposals.The president has long railed against the Justice Department for investigations into his own conduct during his first term as president, including his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to former President Biden.
  Trump initially tapped former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla
  
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