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NYC mayor says Trump promised to release Columbia University student arrested by ICE

President Trump has promised to have ICE release a Columbia University student who was arrested by ICE earlier Thursday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

California becomes first state sued over ‘unchecked antisemitism’ in K-12 schools

A Los Angeles boy transferred schools after being beaten unconscious during gym class by students shouting, "Let's get the Jew," but he was still unable to escape the antisemitic climate permeating the California public school system.

FDA to offer bonus payments to staffers who complete speedy drug reviews

The head of the Food and Drug Administration plans to start offering bonus payments to agency drug reviewers who complete their work ahead of schedule, the latest in a flurry of changes to longstanding norms and procedures.

Judge won’t block Trump’s White House ballroom

A federal judge shot down an attempt to derail President Trump's White House ballroom construction plans, saying Thursday that the group that challenged him bungled its lawsuit.

Trump wins as Democrats sit out the American comeback

President Donald Trump gave his annual State of the Union address in the House of Representatives Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.  The president started off his speech by saying: “Our country is again, in fact, we’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it. You’re going to win again, […]

ICE, Maryland sheriffs slam new state law prohibiting cooperation agreements

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Maryland sheriffs on Thursday slammed a new state law that bars cooperation agreements between federal immigration officers and local authorities. ICE accused Maryland lawmakers of allowing Americans to become "hurt or, worse, killed by criminal aliens," the agency posted on the social platform X. The post included a video...

Trump administration enacts 6-month moratorium on Minnesota Medicaid payments 

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Trump administration enacts 6-month moratorium on Minnesota Medicaid payments Vice President Vance and top health official Mehmet Oz announced a 6-month “moratorium” on Medicaid payments to Minnesota, claiming it was an effort to crack down on fraud. The...

Hillary Clinton criticizes UFO, Pizzagate questions from GOP during Epstein deposition

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday criticized questions she said she got from House Republicans about UFOs and the "Pizzagate" conspiracy during her deposition as part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being...

Anthropic, Pentagon talks at standstill

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Pentagon draws scrutiny with Anthropic threats, Defense Production Act The Pentagon is threatening to use the Defense Production Act (DPA) against Anthropic amid a dispute over the company’s restrictions on its AI tools, in a move that many experts say is an unusual use of the measure. ©...

At least 2 aboard boat in Cuba firefight were US citizens: Official

At least two individuals on the boat involved in a shooting with Cuban forces on Wednesday were U.S. citizens, with one dead and the other injured, a U.S. official told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation on Thursday.  A third person on the U.S.-registered boat was on a U.S. K-11 visa, the official added. The shootout,...

Paramount wins bid to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery after Netflix bows out

Netflix on Thursday said it would not match a bid from Paramount seeking to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery, the sprawling media empire that includes legacy brands in news and entertainment like CNN and HBO. News of the streamer bowing out of its deal with Warner Bros. Discovery came just minutes after the David Zaslav-led company...

Anthropic says ‘virtually no progress’ on Pentagon AI talks as deadline looms

Anthropic said Thursday that “virtually no progress” had been made in the company’s talks with the Pentagon over the terms of use for its AI models ahead of a Friday afternoon deadline. The Department of Defense (DOD) delivered its last and final offer to the company on Wednesday night, asking the firm to allow the...

Childhood obesity hits record: CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday revealed that childhood and teen obesity rates in the U.S. have reached record highs in recent years. The first report details how the CDC's researchers found that 40.3 percent of adults 20 and older were found to be obese, which included 9.7 percent who have...

Wyden presses DEA for answers on secret Epstein investigation

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Wednesday pressed Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Administrator Terry Cole for answers on an investigation into possible drug trafficking and suspicious financial transactions involving the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wyden sent a letter to Cole requesting an unredacted version of a 2015 memorandum that references a probe entitled “Chain Reaction,” in...

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