Sarah Fortinsky

Washington, D.C., United States

Breaking News Reporter at The Hill

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Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate 2020 election

1 week ago | share.google | Brett Samuels |Tara Suter |Sarah Fortinsky |Alexander Bolton

President Trump on Friday called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate unfounded claims the 2020 election results were fraudulent. Trump’s post on Truth Social also said he had all but eliminated illegal border crossings, compared to the tens of thousands of migrants who came into the country each month under the Biden administration. “Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING,” Trump posted.
Appeals court won’t let Justice Department step in for Trump in E. Jean Carroll’s $83M verdict

1 week ago | buff.ly | Zach Schonfeld |Sarah Fortinsky |Brooke Migdon |Ella Lee

A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday refused the Justice Department’s effort to put itself on the hook for an $83.3 million defamation award advice columnist E. Jean Carroll won at trial from President Trump. It’s the latest setback for the president in his efforts to fight Carroll’s lawsuits at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, the 2nd Circuit upheld her earlier $5 million jury award.
Pentagon authorizes up to 700 troops to support ICE in Louisiana, Florida and Texas

1 week ago | buff.ly | Colin Meyn |Ashleigh Fields |Sarah Fortinsky |Nathaniel Weixel

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week authorized the mobilization of up to 700 troops to assist federal immigration officials in Florida, Louisiana and Texas in processing detainees at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Reporter hit as LA officers fire rubber bullets at protesters

2 weeks ago | wgno.com | Sarah Fortinsky |Carrigan Chauvin

(The Hill) — An Australian news correspondent was hit as Los Angeles police fired rubber bullets on Sunday as tensions with immigration raid protesters escalated. “After hours of standing off, this situation has now rapidly deteriorated,” Lauren Tomasi, the U.S. correspondent for Australia’s Nine News, said in a live report from downtown Los Angeles, shortly before she was hit.
Trump steel, aluminum tariffs taking effect

3 weeks ago | wate.com | Sarah Fortinsky

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Noem ending TSA Quiet Skies traveler surveillance program

3 weeks ago | thehill.com | Sarah Fortinsky

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday she is ending the Transportation Safety Administration’s (TSA) “Quiet Skies Program,” saying it is costly, ineffective and used to target political opponents.
Noem ending TSA Quiet Skies traveler surveillance program

3 weeks ago | aol.com | Sarah Fortinsky

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday she is ending the Transportation Safety Administration’s (TSA) “Quiet Skies Program,” saying it is costly, ineffective and used to target political opponents.
Texas Republican on deficit spending in GOP bill: ‘It’s not a perfect world’

3 weeks ago | thehill.com | Sarah Fortinsky

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) lamented the deficit spending in the GOP’s “big, beautiful” spending package, but framed the issue as a necessary compromise to avoid having to negotiate with Democrats. “I don’t want to have any deficit spending. But what I’m trying to suggest to you is that we are stuck in a paradigm where we have to pass this ourselves,” Sessions told CNN’s John Berman in an interview Thursday morning.
Texas Republican on deficit spending in GOP bill: ‘It is not a perfect world’

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sarah Fortinsky

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) lamented the deficit spending in the GOP’s “big, beautiful” spending package but framed the issue as a necessary compromise to avoid having to negotiate with Democrats. “I don’t want to have any deficit spending. But what I’m trying to suggest to you is that we are stuck in a paradigm where we have to pass this ourselves,” Sessions told CNN’s John Berman in an interview Thursday morning.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei says AI element in GOP megabill 'far too blunt an instrument'

3 weeks ago | thehill.com | Sarah Fortinsky

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticized the latest Republican proposal to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) as “far too blunt an instrument” to mitigate the risks of the rapidly evolving technology.