President Trump is nominating Jules “Jay” Hurst III to become the full-time Pentagon comptroller, according to a Wednesday notification to Congress. Hurst has been the acting Pentagon comptroller since August last year, supervising the Pentagon’s mammoth $1.5 trillion defense budget request, which includes $350 billion in a reconciliation package. Hurst, a former Army officer, would become the administration’s...
Meta has settled a federal lawsuit over social media addiction just weeks before the bellwether trial was slated to start in June, joining three other technology firms that settled earlier this month. Meta and attorneys for the Breahitt County, K.Y., Board of Education, confirmed the settlement to The Hill Thursday, resolving claims that the Facebook...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday doubled down on his defense of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new "anti-weaponization" fund. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized the controversial $1.776 billion fund, which was created to help those who believe they were wrongfully targeted by the government to settle their claims. Democrats...
A slate of Democrats are airing their frustrations over the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) handling of an autopsy report of the party’s defeat in the 2024 presidential election. DNC Chair Ken Martin initially chose to keep the autopsy private, but he decided to release it Thursday after pushback. Former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg called...
The Democratic National Committee — after months of both internal and external pressure — released a haphazard version of its autopsy of Kamala Harris’...
