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Trump attacks New York Times over report on reflecting pool's rising costs

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 12:36 pm

President Trump ripped The New York Times on Tuesday morning over a report detailing the ballooning cost of his project to repair and renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “The Failing New York Times, which is one of the worst newspapers anywhere in the World, and is losing subscribers on an hourly basis, is now...

Live updates: Hegseth, Caine return to Hill as Trump heads to China

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 12:30 pm

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be on Capitol Hill for budget hearings in both chambers on Tuesday morning. The testimony comes as President Trump’s snap decision to pull 5,000 U.S. troops out of Germany isn’t moving the needle in pushing European nations to enter the U.S. war in Iran or help Washington reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and...

The Supreme Court ignores past and current reality to gut the Voting Rights Act

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 12:30 pm

Racial discrimination in redistricting is a malignancy that cannot be wished away.

Our nation’s capital — Trump’s sandbox

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 12:00 pm

President Trump has been treating Washington as his personal property, making radical changes to the city and renaming historic buildings after himself, while also proposing expensive and unnecessary projects, all in an attempt to rebrand the nation's capital in his honor.

The Movement: Primaries affirm Trump's grip on GOP, but key tests are ahead

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 12:00 pm

Some of the biggest primary battles of the year have reaffirmed President Trump’s grip on Republicans, despite the party facing tough midterm odds — but more tests are coming. Trump’s endorsement of Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) for Senate last week, and an apparent offer to businessman Nate Morris to be an ambassador, led to Morris’s prompt withdrawal from the race —...

Watch live: Hegseth, Caine testify before House on Iran, defense budget

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 12:00 pm

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning on the President Trump's fiscal 2027 $1.5 trillion budget request for the Pentagon. The hearing comes as the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire is under pressure, with both sides rejecting proposals to end the war....

Trump urges House to pass Senate’s housing bill over conservative opposition

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 11:52 am

President Trump on Monday urged the House to pass a sweeping housing affordability bill that has stalled in the lower chamber amid divisions over certain provisions, including a ban on large institutional investors buying single-family homes. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aimed at lowering housing costs, overwhelmingly passed the Senate in an 89-10...

Can a Jew win the Democratic presidential nomination?

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 11:30 am

The Democratic Party's growing anti-Israel bias may make it difficult for a Jewish candidate to win the 2028 presidential nomination, despite the fact that the Jewish vote leans strongly Democratic.

How the race to replace Don Bacon could threaten Nebraska’s ‘blue dot’

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 10:51 am

In today’s issue: The outcome of today’s primaries to replace GOP Rep. Don Bacon (Neb.) could have dramatic rippling effects for the future of the state’s electoral system. Democrats have smelled blood in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District since Bacon announced last summer that he wouldn’t seek reelection this year. The moderate Republican fended off multiple...

With few options left in redistricting, Democrats ramp up affordability message

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 10:00 am

Where do House Democrats go next? That’s the big question facing party leaders in the wake of last week’s ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court that killed a new House map designed to give Democrats a big boost in November’s midterms. Behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Democratic leaders are vowing a full-court press...

Battle for House control heats up in Nebraska as voters head to polls

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 10:00 am

The spotlight is on Nebraska's "blue dot" congressional district as voters head to the polls in a primary that could help shape the battle for control of the House this November. Voters in the Cornhusker State and West Virginia will cast ballots Tuesday in congressional and state legislative primaries, while Nebraskans will also select nominees...

Ocasio-Cortez turns heads with answer to Axelrod about White House run

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 10:00 am

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sat down with Democratic strategist David Axelrod at a Chicago event last week, she didn't close the door on a White House bid. Ocasio-Cortez pushed back on the idea that her political aspirations are “positional,” telling Axelrod that people “assume my ambition is a title or a seat,” when her...

Senate Republicans warn Trump against Cuba military attack

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 10:00 am

Senate Republicans are cautioning President Trump against ordering military strikes against the socialist regime in Cuba, arguing the U.S. military already has its hands full with Iran. The Trump administration, these Republicans say, should not be thinking about opening another front for the military in a midterm election year where voters are already showing their...

A warning from the UK for America’s political class

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 10:00 am

Americans are only a little less satisfied with our system of government than the people of South Africa, which is really saying something, given that South Africans as a whole are about half as safe and about a tenth as rich as Americans. But that’s what the latest numbers from the Pew Research Center tell...

Republicans race for legislative wins ahead of midterms

By: The Hill

Published on: May 12, 2026, 10:00 am

Republicans are scrambling to secure more legislative wins this summer as the issue of affordability increasingly becomes a liability heading into November’s midterms. President Trump and Republicans scored a huge victory last year with their “big, beautiful bill,” a package of tax and spending cuts that GOP lawmakers are trumpeting on the campaign trail. But...