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Angel Families had a day of remembrance we never should have needed
The National Angel Family Day Proclamation was established to honor the thousands of Angel Families in the US who have lost loved ones to dangerous criminal illegal immigrants, but the families are left to grieve the loss of their loved ones due to preventable policy failures.
Paxton offers conditions for potential exit from Texas Senate race
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) suggested Thursday that he would be open to dropping out of the hotly contested Texas Senate primary against Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) if Senate Republicans met several conditions. Paxton said on Thursday he would consider exiting the race if Senate leadership eliminated the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold needed to clear most legislation in...
Johnson, GOP leaders ask Tony Gonzales to drop reelection after admitting affair
House Republican leaders on Thursday called on Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-La.) to end his bid for reelection over an affair that the Texas congressman admitted he had with a staffer in his office who later died by suicide. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), and...
Blue states challenge Trump’s new tariffs
Democratic-led states announced Thursday they are suing President Trump over his new tariffs, asserting they are illegal like his previous ones, which were recently struck down by the Supreme Court. Following the high court’s 6-3 blockbuster ruling that Trump can’t invoke a 1977 emergency law to impose his sweeping levies, the president has turned his gaze to another law that does authorize...
Rand Paul: Americans 'have been robbed of a public debate' on Iran war
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) rebuked the Trump administration’s rollout of joint military strikes with Israel on Iran in a Fox News opinion piece published Thursday. Paul cited Congress’s constitutional authority to declare war, saying the decision to go to war “should be a collective decision, with a clear rationale for war articulated.” “The people have...
No peace in Ukraine until Russia returns its children
This is not a marginal humanitarian concern. It is the most direct measure of whether Russia intends to honor any future settlement at all.
Trump, Bondi sued over TikTok deal
Two investors sued President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday over the administration's approval of a deal that saw TikTok spun off into a separate American-owned entity in order to continue operating in the U.S. Zhaocheng Anthony Tan, a shareholder in Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Garrett Reid, a Meta shareholder, argue the...
Rove: Talarico has chance of upset in Texas
Republican strategist Karl Rove said Thursday that Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) has a chance of winning if Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) becomes the GOP nominee. “[Democrats] haven’t won a Senate race here since 1988, they haven’t won a statewide race since 1994, but everybody believes that this year is the year...
Iran seeks revenge against Trump's military operation
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here. 🍩 Plus: RFK Jr.’s war on Dunkin’, Starbucks {beacon} It’s Thursday. Have you heard that the FBI is taking over the Reagan Building in Washington? That means the National Children’s Museum will be forced out. I’m so bummed. In today's issue: Iranian leaders call...
Congress can help find and rescue tens of thousands of exploited children
Operation Renewed Hope is a global victim identification operation aimed at finding the 57,000 children whose images of sexual abuse are in the hands of law enforcement, and the Renewed Hope Act of 2026 would create and equip a dedicated workforce of 200 analysts, investigators and forensic specialists to help locate and safeguard these children.
Trust in CDC, FDA, NIH shrinks: Survey
A poll published Thursday found that Americans have lost trust in federal health institutions and are more likely to say they trust independent, professional medical organizations when it comes to advice on topics like vaccination. The February survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that public trust in...
Trump says he must be involved in selecting new Iran leader
President Trump said Thursday that he must be personally involved in the process of selecting a new leader in Iran. In an interview with Axios published Thursday, Trump said the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei, is most likely to succeed his father, but that the pick would be “unacceptable” to him. ...
Almost 20K US citizens returned from Middle East: State Department
The State Department said Thursday that nearly 20,000 Americans have returned home from the Middle East since the U.S. military’s launch of strikes against Iran on Saturday. Assistant Secretary of State Dylan Johnson said in a press release that this figure omits Americans who have relocated to other countries or who are currently traveling back...
Trump: 'Bad' for Paxton to say he won't drop out if Cornyn gets endorsement
President Trump warned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday that it would be "bad for him" not to drop out of the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff if the president decides to back incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Trump was responding to a question during an interview with Politico about Paxton’s recent comments saying he...
