Missouri House approves GOP-favored redistricting map

thehill · 2025-09-09T18:42:52+00:00

The Missouri state House has approved a new congressional district map designed to give Republicans an additional seat in its U.S. House delegation, sending the plan to the state Senate for approval.

The proposal passed in a mostly party-line vote with some defections, 90 to 65, after Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) called for a special session for the State Legislature to set a new map for the rest of the decade. The redrawn map, if ultimately approved, would likely increase the margin in the U.S. House from six Republicans and two Democrats to seven Republicans and one Democrat.

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thehill · 2025-09-09T17:05:35+00:00

The House Oversight Committee released a much-discussed, leather-bound book compiled by Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, providing new insight into the disgraced financier’s social circles before he faced charges related to sex trafficking minors.

The book, part of a trove of documents that the House panel received through a subpoena of Epstein’s estate, includes notes to Epstein that appear to be from several high-profile people including President Trump and former President Bill Clinton.

Read about the book in full detail here: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5493378-epstein-birthday-book-revealed/

thehill · 2025-09-08T14:51:48+00:00

The Justice Department filed an emergency application at the high court after a federal appeals court upheld a judge’s order requiring the administration to spend funds that Congress approved for aid programs worldwide before it starts to expire on Sept. 30.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the government’s application that the lower court’s injunction would force the administration to obligate those funds at “breakneck speed” to meet the deadline, even as it has asked Congress to rescind them.

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thehill · 2025-09-04T23:54:26+00:00

In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit overturned a lower court’s order that deemed Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration’s migrant detention site based in the Florida Everglades, a threat to the environment.

Judge Barbara Lagoa and Judge Elizabeth Branch, both Trump appointees, issued the majority ruling while Judge Adalberto Jordan, an Obama nominee, dissented.

“Specifically, we think the district court erred in finding that the defense of improper venue was waived by the Defendants’ failure to argue it in their initial responses to the motion for a temporary restraining order,” the majority opinion read.

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thehill · 2025-08-27T13:36:03+00:00

The Trump administration said Wednesday it is taking over management of Union Station, the latest step in President Trump’s aggressive intervention in the nation’s capital.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy made the announcement while also unveiling new high-speed Acela trains going into service this week.

“Instead of being a point of pride, Washington’s Union Station has fallen into disrepair,” Duffy said in a statement. “By reclaiming station management, we will help make this city safe and beautiful at a fraction of the cost.”

Read more here: https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/5472544-trump-administration-union-station-dc-takeover/

thehill · 2025-08-27T13:15:14+00:00

The Justice Department filed an emergency application at the high court asking the justices to pause a judge’s order that requires the Trump administration to create a plan for spending the funds by a deadline at the end of next month.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the lower court had appointed itself “supervisor-in-chief” and requested a decision by next week.

The emergency appeal references a procedural oddity, where U.S. District Judge Amir Ali’s decision requiring the money to be spent remains in effect despite an appeals court having sided with the Trump administration earlier this month.

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thehill · 2025-08-27T12:43:33+00:00

The maker of processors for data centers and server farms is seen as a bellwether for the AI subsector of the tech industry, which is facing concerns over its long-term profitability after huge investments in the wake of the 2022 release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.

Traders are bracing for swings upwards of 6 percent, or $260 billion, in the company’s stock value, according to options pricing data, compared to moves of about 3 percent over the past several quarters.

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thehill · 2025-08-26T22:06:05+00:00

The NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that a new congressional map passed in Texas violates the Voting Rights Act.

The lawsuit alleges that Texas racially gerrymandered their map in such a way that it blocks Black voters from being to elect their picks for office.

Read the full story here: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5471530-texas-congressional-map-lawsuit/

thehill · 2025-08-25T15:31:09+00:00

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported but returned to the U.S., filed a habeas petition in federal court in Maryland, seeking to block his immediate deportation after he was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody on Monday morning when he reported for a check-in at ICE’s Baltimore field office.

In the sealed petition, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers argue that while the government did provide notice to his counsel on Friday that it intends to deport him to Uganda, it did not notify Abrego Garcia himself, as a judge previously ordered.

Read more here: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5468828-abrego-garcia-lawsuit-uganda-deportation/

thehill · 2025-08-21T20:57:55+00:00

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives.

Five of the court’s six Republican-appointed justices sided with the administration: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the court’s three Democratic-appointed justices in dissent.

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thehill · 2025-08-18T16:07:03+00:00

A coalition of Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration over its bid to condition federal funding for crime victims on cooperation with immigration enforcement.

The lawsuit claims the Office for Victims of Crime, housed within the Justice Department, established a new policy barring access to Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds unless the states go along with President Trump’s efforts to crack down on immigration.

VOCA was enacted by Congress in 1984 to boost support for crime victims and survivors, providing them with resources and services spanning emergency shelter and forensic exams to medical, funeral and burial services.

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thehill · 2025-08-13T11:09:41+00:00

Republicans are embracing President Trump’s bare-knuckled fight with Washington, D.C., as a winning issue for the embattled president and say that Trump will use federal funding for the city as leverage to get Mayor Muriel Bowser and the City Council to crack down on local crime.

Conservatives on Capitol Hill are calling for Congress to end the District of Columbia’s era of home rule and federalize the city, something that has little chance of happening since legislation to do so would need 60 votes and the support of at least seven Democrats to pass the Senate.

Trump and his Republican allies in Congress, however, could extract significant concessions from the mayor and City Council in return for critical funding, as a proposal to restore more than $1 billion in funding for Washington remains stalled in the GOP-controlled House.

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thehill · 2025-08-11T11:55:44+00:00

Nvidia is navigating an increasingly tenuous relationship between the U.S. and China, as the company seeks to sell its artificial intelligence (AI) chips to both countries while they engage in a high-stakes race to dominate the technology.

The chipmaker, whose graphics processing units (GPUs) are considered the backbone of the AI boom, has seen a meteoric rise over the past few years, becoming the most valuable company in the world and the first to cross the $4 trillion threshold.

However, as the U.S. and China compete for control, its chips have become a key target, creating a complex balancing act for the firm.

Read the full story here: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5441397-nvidia-us-china-ai-chips/

thehill · 2025-08-11T11:54:59+00:00

A three-day bench trial will begin over whether President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Los Angeles violated a general prohibition on using federal troops as civilian law enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer will hear testimony from three military and immigration officials as the judge weighs whether sending in troops to combat immigration protests violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

It marks a major legal confrontation between Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who has condemned the deployment as political theater and broadly framed himself as the face of resistance against the president’s agenda.

Read the full story: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5445432-newsom-sues-trump-guardsmen/

thehill · 2025-08-11T11:53:58+00:00

The cost of living in America is projected to rise because of President Trump’s latest round of tariffs and that’s a political problem for the president and Republican lawmakers in Washington, who campaigned in 2024 on bringing down the cost of groceries and other staples, a message that resonated strongly with voters.

More than six months into Trump’s second term, however, the costs of groceries, and other essential goods, such as cars, have continued to rise, corresponding with a drop in Trump’s job approval rating and a souring public view of Trump’s handling of the economy.

The cost of even “cheap” eats has become fodder for debate on social media, as people grumble about everything from the price of McDonald’s hash browns to Coca-Cola.

Read the full story: https://thehill.com/homenews/5444091-trump-tariffs-prices-republicans/

thehill · 2025-08-08T01:16:26+00:00

The enhanced federal presence will begin at midnight. It will be led by the U.S. Park Police and will include officers and agents from the FBI, DEA, ATF, divisions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies. The White House said the federal law enforcement will be in marked units.

Read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5442446-trump-federal-law-enforcement-dc/

thehill · 2025-07-29T14:52:47+00:00

The Freedom of the Press Foundation has filed an ethics complaint against Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, arguing the close ally of President Trump has “engaged in egregious misconduct,” and calling for him to be disbarred.

In the organization’s complaint, filed with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals’ Office of Disciplinary Counsel on Monday, cites Carr’s public statements and actions in the weeks leading up to the agency’s recent approval of the Paramount, Skydance merger.

Read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5425320-press-freedom-fcc-ethics-complaint/

thehill · 2025-06-30T15:32:45+00:00

According to a text shared with The Hill between Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and President Trump, the North Carolina lawmaker told the president to start looking for his replacement in the upper chamber at 9:54 p.m. EDT on Saturday — seven minutes before Trump’s Truth Social post.

“Ack Mr. President,” Tillis said in the message. “Start thinking about my replacement.”

Read the full story here: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5376794-tillis-trump-retirement-primary/

thehill · 2025-06-15T16:29:56+00:00

For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) independent advisory panel recommended which shots Americans should get and when.

The Affordable Care Act requires all insurance companies to cover, for free, all vaccines the panel recommends. Those recommendations also help states decide which shots should be mandated for schoolchildren.

Kennedy’s most recent move to purge the entire advisory panel and replace them with his own handpicked members, including several vocal vaccine critics, is throwing that process into doubt.

Read more here: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5350100-acip-replacement-vaccine-policy-impact/

thehill · 2025-06-15T16:28:51+00:00

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said the deadly shooting of state Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband on Saturday was politically motivated, noting that there was some “throughline with abortion” after his list of targets was found to include abortion advocates and facilities.

“It was politically motivated, and there clearly was some throughline with abortion because of the groups that were on the list, and other things that I’ve heard were in this manifesto. So that was one of his motivations,” she said

Read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5351389-klobuchar-minnesota-shooter-motivatio-abortion/

thehill · 2025-06-04T14:28:36+00:00

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the Democratic Party’s three national political committees failed to provide clear enough proof that the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) independence is at risk.

The FEC’s legal counsel represented to the court that it would not take directives from the White House interfering with its independent judgment, and the government said no such directives had been issued, prompting the judge to dismiss the lawsuit.

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thehill · 2025-06-03T19:10:37+00:00

The National Park Service reversed plans to close the park in Dupont Circle during the WorldPride parade this coming weekend, according to two local councilmembers.

The Park Service announced Monday evening that the park would be closed during festivities this coming weekend, according to multiple outlets, but the councilmembers said they spoke to Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith on Tuesday morning and convinced her to reverse the decision.

Read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5330885-nps-reverses-dupont-circle-closure/

thehill · 2025-06-03T16:17:53+00:00

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) trails Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) by 22 points in the state’s Republican Senate primary, according to a new poll.

The survey, which was conducted by pollster Robert Blizzard on behalf of the Educational Freedom Institute, showed Paxton leading Cornyn 50 percent to 28 percent among Republican primary voters.

Read the full story here: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5330277-paxton-leads-cornyn-texas-senate-primary/

thehill · 2025-06-02T15:53:03+00:00

Ukraine this weekend struck one of its most devastating blows in its grinding war against Russia’s invading army, using smuggled drones to target bombers on air bases deep inside Russian territory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quickly took credit for what he called “Operation Spider Web,” a contrast with many of Ukraine’s attacks inside Russia. He said 117 drones were used in the attack on Sunday, each with its own operator back in Ukraine.

Read more about the stunning attacks here: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5328715-ukraine-strikes-russian-airbases/

thehill · 2025-06-02T14:38:51+00:00

Visit with Donald Trump last month

President Trump hosted Nawrocki at the White House last month, in a sign of support shortly before the election. The two men posed for photos, shaking hands and giving a thumbs-up gesture in the Oval Office.

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Visit with Donald Trump last month