The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to clear the way for border wall construction to resume around Texas’s Big Bend region.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer called a lower judge’s block on the construction “baseless” and said it disrupts the government’s ability to secure a quarter of the southern border.
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Bond yields in the U.S. have risen this year, slowing down a stock market that has risen for years on the back of the AI build-out.
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The 2027 Senate class will be the first delegation in more than four decades forced to address Social Security’s potential insolvency.
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President Trump on Wednesday morning praised Russia’s release of American teacher Stephen Hubbard after four years of wrongful imprisonment. Read more. |
A federal judge pressed Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers this week on whether she should believe them or President Trump when it comes to the administration’s plans for a golf course in the nation’s capital.
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Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) went after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) over targeting Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the Maine Senate election this year.
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A bipartisan group of nearly two dozen House members is urging President Trump to ask tech mogul Elon Musk to give Ukraine access to Starlink satellite systems to hunt for missile launchers inside Russia, according to a letter sent Wednesday and obtained exclusively by The Hill.
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America has a new national park, bringing the nation’s tally of true national parks to 64.
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DAYTON, Ohio, and EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boosted a front-line House Republican on Tuesday during a day trip to Midwest battlegrounds two weeks before the midterm elections, in which Republicans are facing an uphill fight to keep control of Congress.
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✍️ After two years operating from the sidelines, Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are planning to conduct ambitious investigations into President Trump and his administration if the lower chamber changes hands in next month’s elections. The Hill's Mike Lillis and Sudiksha Kochi have the full scoop on The Hill Insider. Subscribe here.
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