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Soldier’s arrest in alleged Polymarket bet spotlights risks for military

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Soldier’s arrest in alleged prediction market bet spotlights risks for military The arrest of a U.S. soldier accused of using classified information to place a bet on Polymarket on the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is stoking new fears over how betting markets could threaten national security in...

Jones Act waiver extended in bid to lower fuel prices​

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Jones Act waiver extended in bid to lower fuel prices The Trump administration announced on Friday it was issuing a 90-day extension to its waiver of the Jones Act, which requires shipping between U.S. ports to be conducted by American ships, in an effort to...

Insurers step up prior authorization reforms 

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Insurers step up prior authorization reforms Major health insurance companies on Friday said they were accelerating efforts to streamline prior authorization requirements and reduce administrative burdens for providers. © Getty Images The commitment was signed by about 50 companies,...

Burgum previews Reflecting Pool’s new ‘American flag blue’ floor

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum shared an update Friday of the ongoing installation of an “American flag blue” floor in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “Renovations are underway!” Burgum wrote in a post on the social platform X, alongside a picture of workers applying the new blue base to the pool. The secretary thanked President Trump...

Florida Democrat ‘appalled’ by report 31 sloths died in storage warehouse 

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said Thursday that he was appalled by a report about the death of 31 sloths that died under the care of Sloth World, a tourist attraction in Orlando, Fla., that wasn’t yet opened to the public. The sloths were from South American rainforests and perished in storage warehouses between December 2024...

Maine governor vetoes statewide pause in new data centers

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Friday she has vetoed legislation that would have banned the development of large-scale data centers in the state for the next year-and-a-half, issuing a blow to the local anti-data center push growing across America. Mills, who is running for the U.S. Senate, wrote in a letter Friday to the...

Florida Dem filed for reelection days before resignation as House Ethics Committee ramped up pressure

Former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is still registered to run for reelection despite resigning amid federal charges and ethics committee findings.

Mamdani in the hot seat after first veto derails bipartisan effort to combat antisemitism: ‘Disappointed’

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is vetoing a bill targeting antisemitism that would expand security restrictions on protests at education sites.

Transgender lawmaker ‘doesn’t know what a woman is,’ White House says after dig at Trump firings

Rep. Sarah McBride says Trump "only fires women," guessing that DNI Tulsi Gabbard is next to go after Noem, Bondi and Chavez-DeRemer departures.

With the world distracted, Hamas is rebuilding — and prepping for its next horror show

The Hamas death cult has taken advantage of the October 2025 cease-fire with Israel to rebuild, rearm and consolidate its grip on the half...

Terrorist lecture at UC Berkeley — symptom of a much bigger problem

A recent event hosted by students at UC Berkeley’s law school drew national criticism after featuring Israa Jaabis, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber released from Israeli prison in...

Spirit Airlines deal threatens yet another bailout boondoggle

Rewarding failure and punishing success isn’t a very smart economic game plan — but that's what Washington does, again and again.

California’s Democratic candidates for governor claim racism, again

If you go to NASCAR to watch the cars crash, the Democratic gubernatorial race in California has been a thrilling pile-up.

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