Latest News from The Hill

Alabama, Tennessee GOP governors call special sessions after Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision

By: The Hill

Published on: May 2, 2026, 3:01 am

Republican governors in two southern states are calling state lawmakers back for special sessions next week to consider new congressional maps following a landmark Supreme Court decision that narrowed the scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Alabama lawmakers are set to convene in Montgomery starting Monday to discuss potentially moving the state’s May 19...

Pentagon says US naval blockade has cost Iran $4.8 billion 

By: The Hill

Published on: May 2, 2026, 2:09 am

The Defense Department has estimated that the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran about $4.8 billion in oil revenue, a Pentagon official familiar with the assessment told The Hill late Friday.  The blockade, which was instituted more than two weeks ago, is one of the actions President Trump has used to inflict pressure on Iran...

GOP Sen. Young: Trump should work with Congress on any future Iran strikes

By: The Hill

Published on: May 2, 2026, 1:32 am

Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) said on Friday that the Trump administration would need to seek congressional approval before renewing military action against Iran, after officials asserted the 60-day war powers clock stopped running when the ceasefire took effect. “The purpose of the War Powers Act was to assert the constitutional responsibility of Congress to declare...

Spirit Airlines preparing to shut down if bailout deal isn't reached: Reports

By: The Hill

Published on: May 2, 2026, 12:24 am

Spirit Airlines may be reaching the end of the runway.

ActBlue sues Ken Paxton for 'retaliation' over donation vetting lawsuit

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 11:28 pm

ActBlue is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), arguing that his investigation and a separate lawsuit into the progressive fundraising platform amount to political retaliation for its role in raising money for Democratic candidates and causes. The lawyers representing the platform asked a federal court in Massachusetts on Friday to stop Paxton from pursuing...

New York Times pushes for release of purported Epstein suicide note

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 11:06 pm

The New York Times on Thursday called on a New York courthouse for the release of an alleged suicide note written by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The outlet petitioned the courthouse's judge to unseal the note, which Epstein's cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione said he found in July 2019, one month before Epstein's death. The note...

Garcia presses DHS for info on whether Noem is living in government housing

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 10:54 pm

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, is pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for information on whether its former secretary, Kristi Noem, is still living in government housing. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Garcia cited the Wall Street Journal’s reporting last week...

Carville rips 'sons of b‑‑‑‑es' on Supreme Court: 'So happy to help the Republican Party'

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 10:35 pm

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville tore into the Supreme Court on Friday, accusing the justices of engaging in political favoritism and ethical misconduct. “There is no reason, none, that you should have any respect or any admiration for this pack of people who take money from anybody, don’t report anything, are the only nine people...

The MAHA movement's wild week

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 10:29 pm

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story The MAHA movement's wild week The “Make America Healthy Again” movement flexed its muscle this week by successfully pushing a pro-pesticide provision out of the farm bill but lost a chance for higher influence when the Trump administration...

Appeals court blocks mail-order mifepristone, restricting abortion access nationwide

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 10:29 pm

A federal appeals court late Friday blocked the ability of doctors to prescribe the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth and dispensed through the mail. A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Louisiana in a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The court issued a temporary nationwide injunction...

Immigrants sue over Trump administration biometric data policy

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 10:00 pm

A group of six immigrants in U.S. detention on Thursday sued the Trump administration over its policy barring detained migrants from completing biometric data processes that cause their immigration applications to be denied. The complaint argues that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) created a system that "requires individuals to submit biometrics as part of...

Trump orders withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany amid feud with Merz

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 9:52 pm

President Trump ordered the Pentagon on Friday to withdraw about 5,000 U.S. service members from Germany amid his public feud with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.  The redeployment of troops will bring the number of service members roughly to pre-2022 levels and will affect a brigade combat team and potentially other U.S. forces already in Germany,...

Yellen calls Trump's Powell investigation 'most disturbing'

By: The Hill

Published on: May 1, 2026, 9:04 pm

Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who also served as chair of the Federal Reserve, ripped the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into her successor, Jerome Powell, on Thursday as a “disturbing” attack on the Fed’s independence. “I think what President Trump is doing is unprecedented, and the most recent and most disturbing, in a way,...