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Former President Clinton on Saturday urged unity in a speech on the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. “If our lives are going to be dominated by the effort to dominate people we disagree with, we're going to put the 250-year-old march toward a more perfect union at risk,” Clinton said during a speech...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) repeatedly declined to label the arson attack on his house a hate crime, saying in a new interview that such a designation would be up to prosecutors to make. ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos pressed the governor about whether the attack was a hate crime, noting even Senate Minority Leader...

After a two-year hiatus, Senate GOP primaries are on the way back. Senate Republicans are bracing for a midterm cycle that could be littered with nasty primary challenges to both incumbents and preferred candidates alike, marking a stark change after party leaders worked hand in glove with President Trump to root them out to help...

President Trump on Sunday wished everyone a happy Easter in a post on his Truth Social platform, “including Radical Left Lunatics.” “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife...

Austan Goolsbee, the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said he hopes the Federal Reserve maintains its monetary independence amid attacks from President Trump, citing the agency’s credibility. Goolsbee joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday to weigh in on Trump’s pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to cut...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) said President Trump’s cuts to Harvard University’s funding are part of his “outrageous” plan to silence his critics. Healey joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where she weighed in on the administration’s attacks on the university in her state, which is also her alma mater. “It’s outrageous,” she...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said on Sunday that the United States is in a constitutional crisis with the Trump administration "flouting the courts." “Do you think that the Trump administration is ignoring the courts? Do you think that the country is currently in a constitutional crisis?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Van Hollen on...

President Trump's decision to engage in direct talks with Iran has left many questioning whether he is willing to compromise to get a deal, or if he is bluffing with the threat of military action, and who will have the most influence over his decision.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said he can “absolutely” assure the public that the various deregulation efforts undergone by the agency will not harm the environment. Zeldin joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he was asked if he could ensure the deregulation wouldn’t have an adverse impact. “Absolutely,” he replied....

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday that he does not think President Trump has defied any court orders in the case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but the senator said he would “call him out on it” if he does. “Yes,” Kennedy said, when asked on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” whether he thinks Trump...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday he does not think the law would allow President Trump to send United States citizens convicted of violent crimes to Salvadoran prisons, despite the president’s suggestion that he might be open to that possibility. “No, ma'am. Nor should it be considered appropriate or moral,” Kennedy told NBC News’s...

Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) announced that she will travel to El Salvador to demand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian national who was mistakenly deported from the U.S., be released from prison in the country.  “A legal U.S. resident has had his due process rights ripped away and is now being held indefinitely in a...

President Trump argued that he was elected in November to “take bad people out of” the country, sharing a photo of what he says is proof of a mistakenly deported man's gang ties. The president posted a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hand on Friday, showing various tattoos on his knuckles, including a marijuana leaf,...

A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over its deportation flights to El Salvador last month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit indicated its order is intended to provide “sufficient opportunity” for the court to consider the government’s appeal...

Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision Desk HQ, in what became a closer-than-expected race amid growing voter dissatisfaction over the direction of the city. Lee won the nonpartisan ranked-choice election over a field of more than a half dozen candidates, with...

A federal judge ordered that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained late last month, be transferred from a detention center in Louisiana to Vermont no later than at the start of next month. District Judge William Sessions ruled Friday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has until May 1 to move Ozturk,...

President Trump weighed in on the cost of eggs around the country, claiming Friday at the White House that the prices are “getting too low." Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a “great” job and then asserted that egg prices are “down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that.” “You can have all...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump budget proposes cutting heating assistance The Trump administration is considering cutting a program that helps low-income people heat and cool their homes. © Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A draft budget request document reviewed by The Hill calls for the elimination of the Low...

Probationary workers who were refired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected. The workers had expected their health insurance to run into May. Instead, they received notices this week that the department is backdating their termination to an earlier date, meaning the health insurance ran...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story SCOTUS to hear ObamaCare free care case Ever since ObamaCare became law, Americans have been guaranteed certain preventive care will be free, no matter what insurance they have. © Getty Experts say a Supreme Court case set for...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court on Friday to immediately intervene to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants being held in Texas to El Salvador under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act. The ACLU’s emergency application says many migrants are already on buses, “presumably headed to the airport” to...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was completely in the dark about his family’s battle to secure his release and the intense political debate over his future when the Maryland Democrat met with the mistakenly deported man in El Salvador this week. “When I told him that his wife and family...

House Republican committee chairs are denying Democrats’ requests to travel to El Salvador and visit its CECOT prison facility as scrutiny builds on the Trump administration’s handling of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) this week denied...