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WATCH: Booker continues to reject SAVE Act despite bombshell NJ voter roll scandal

Cory Booker says the SAVE Act would not have prevented the New Jersey software error that made roughly 6,600 noncitizens eligible to vote.

WATCH: Democrats admit when they’d eliminate the filibuster as SAVE Act fight heats up

Trump urges John Thune to eliminate the Senate filibuster or cancel August recess until lawmakers pass the SAVE Act election integrity bill.

Gavin Newsom’s tax return bait-and-switch: An attack on democracy

Gavin Newsom promised to "release" his tax returns. He did no such thing.

Attention Gavin Newsom: Donald Trump’s war on fraud is no bluff

California and Minnesota officials may have to shake down state taxpayers for a billion...

Gavin Newsom’s latest utility bailout — bad policy, bad for democracy

Gavin Newsom is secretly pursuing an 11th-hour push to shield California's three for-profit utility...

Bipartisan senators press Rubio to unlock family planning funding for women in Ebola outbreak

A bipartisan pair of senators pressed the Trump administration to release family planning funding and supplies to aid women affected by an ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) requested to lift the...

Amazon received $600M in Trump tariff refunds, will return some to customers

Amazon said this week that it received hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds from President Trump’s tariffs and pledged to return some of the profits to its customers.  This follows a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that many of the Trump administration’s tariffs were illegal, prompting the U.S. government to start a process...

US planning renewed strikes on Iran: Reports

The U.S. is reportedly planning to reopen strikes against Iran as soon as this weekend, U.S. officials told several outlets on Friday. CBS News reported that Israel is also involved in the plans to launch “one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date” against Iranian energy infrastructure targets, citing multiple sources. The Israeli and U.S....

Critics and allies chime in after Fauci hearing

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story Critics and allies chime in after Fauci hearing Former chief White House medical advisor Anthony Fauci's ability to command public fixation is proving resilient this week as figures from media, sports and health all give their two scents on his recent Senate appearance. © Greg Nash...

FIFA ditches plan to seek private investment for World Cup

FIFA has scrapped plans to cash in on the popularity of the World Cup by selling a share of it to private equity as part of what it said earlier this week was a broader investment strategy, the federation said late Friday. The plan, which would have sought private investment to the tune of around $10 billion in exchange...

DOJ will drop Reflecting Pool criminal case, citing ‘flawed installation’ 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) moved Friday to drop its criminal prosecution of a former Olympian charged with destroying the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the damage was instead the result of a “rushed and botched installation.”  U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office blamed the contractor for overspraying and delamination.  In a new court filing, the office...

Fetterman: Trump has ‘zero leverage’ over lame-duck GOP senators 

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) pointed to weaknesses in President Trump’s influence in Congress amid opposition from three outgoing Republican senators to the president’s nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to a permanent role overseeing the Department of Justice (DOJ).  Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.) and John Cornyn (Texas) have all expressed skepticism...

Silicon Valley clashes over open-source technology

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story ‘Rogue’ AI hacking incidents amplify debate over open-source tech Concerns over AI’s cybersecurity risks reached a fever pitch this week following two hacking incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, sparking further debate in Silicon Valley over whether open-source could reduce these threats. Illustration / Samantha Wong; and Adobe Stock...

Rogue AI hacking incidents amplify debate over open-source tech

Concerns over AI’s cybersecurity risks reached a fever pitch this week following two hacking incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, sparking further debate in Silicon Valley over whether open-source could reduce these threats. The incidents are amplifying the recent push for open-source technology, which gained momentum earlier this year amid growing competition with China and the...

DOI proposes potentially major water cuts

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story DOI proposes potentially major water cuts The federal government is proposing potentially steep cuts to water used by California, Arizona and Nevada, a major step toward figuring out the management of the dwindling Colorado River. © AP Photo/Brittany Peterson, File The river provides water to...

US stands on the brink of a regional war 

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story US stands on the brink of a widening regional war The U.S. war with Iran is flaring up across the region, threatening to pull U.S. allies into a fight that Washington and Israel started five months...

Italy closes air and sea borders, suspends Schengen with Spain over Ceuta migrant crisis

The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.  The move will impact flights and maritime transport and temporarily suspends Spain’s Schengen border-free rights, an agreement that allows citizens of European member states to move...

George Santos settles with CFTC over Kalshi bets

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over wagers he placed on the State of the Union earlier this year on Kalshi, the agency announced Friday. Santos placed bets on whether he would attend President Trump's address in February, while also posting on...

Trump appeals ruling finding he colluded with DOJ in $10B IRS suit

The Trump administration on Friday appealed a ruling from a federal judge in Florida who found the president effectively colluded with his own government in bringing a $10 billion suit against the IRS. That suit, which the Justice Department pointed to as the basis for creating its $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, was highly criticized by...

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