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The French government is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody after she was detained earlier this month.

The Trump administration continues to endorse energy waste, even as its Mideast war drives up oil and gas prices. 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine will brief reporters on Thursday morning, as the war nears the seven-week mark and the ceasefire hits nine days. A series of Trump officials will make their way to Capitol Hill on Thursday, where lawmakers continue to duke it out...

A bomb threat occurred at the home of the brother of Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday night, police in Illinois confirmed.

By any reasonable strategic measure, the divergent nature of U.S. policy toward Iran and Pakistan defies logic. Both are Islamic republics. Both are authoritarian in structure. Both have had links to transnational terrorist networks. And both have long had fraught relationships with Washington. Yet one is relentlessly sanctioned, threatened and even denied civilian nuclear rights...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday said President Trump should apologize to Pope Leo XIV following their public spat over the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran, adding that "when you're wrong, you're wrong." "To say soft on crime or soft on the border, that’s what you say to an opponent in the next election," Tillis told...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will brief reporters Thursday morning on the U.S. military operation in Iran, just over a week into the fragile ceasefire between the Trump administration and Tehran. President Trump imposed a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz this week, pushing back on Iran for...

Immigrants and the children of immigrants are a crucial source of personnel for the U.S. military. Given events in the Middle East, it’s an odd time to go out of the way to alienate them, but that’s what the White House, congressional Republicans and Republican governors and legislators in numerous states seem intent on doing. 

Kim likely views his nuclear program as his only guarantee of regime survival, which is why he will keep his foot on the nuclear accelerator.

Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today’s issue: A showdown over the leadership of the Federal Reserve is ramping up ahead of a confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee for chair set for next week. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Wednesday urged the administration to “wrap up” its investigation of...