China is engaged in a covert influence campaign to prevent the development of U.S. data centers needed for artificial-intelligence capabilities, according to the chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said in his upcoming memoir that he considered running for president in 2024 out of frustration over the Biden administration's handling of the southern border with Mexico. "I should run for president," he told himself in his forthcoming book "Borderlands: My Fight for an Inclusive America," Politico reported...
On Thursday, federal appeals court ruled that President Trump’s 10 percent global tariff is likely legal, deciding it can remain in place until the court delivers its final word. Trump imposed the new levy after the Supreme Court invalidated his previous emergency tariffs as exceeding his authority. Last month, a federal trade court found the new tariff unlawful and blocked officials from forcing a group...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Thursday quipped that her "revenge" on President Trump will be by including herself in the "unemployment number in" January 2027 when her term concludes. Mace wrote on the social platform X that she has been asked if she will "get revenge on Trump" for "ending" her political career. "The answer...
This time it’s different — maybe. President Trump announced a “great settlement of the war with Iran” when he spoke to reporters in the Oval Office Thursday afternoon. It was an abrupt turn, even by his standards, from a morning social media post in which he pledged that the United States was about to hit Iran...
A massive "86 47" appeared on the grass on the National Mall on Thursday, numbers interpreted by the Trump administration as a threat against the president, days before President Trump's birthday and the upcoming UFC match outside of the White House. The etching in the grass could be seen from the live webcam at the...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump says Iranian Supreme Leader approved deal President Trump said on Thursday that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has approved the text of a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz and start diplomatic talks over...
The Senate Armed Services Committee rejected a provision in the annual defense policy bill that would have expanded coverage of fertility services for military members and their families, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.). “All my provision seeks to do is provide our troops with the same access to IVF that all Members of Congress already have. After everything...
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Thursday that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) cannot move forward with a donation-vetting lawsuit against progressive fundraising platform ActBlue. District Judge Richard G. Stearns blocked Paxton from “continuing to litigate” the case, finding that ActBlue was likely to succeed in its claims that the action infringed on its...
CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday said in an interview that President Trump's core base of supporters, despite his longstanding feud with the news media. The CNN reporter spoke with New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh for Interview Magazine about the president's relationship with the media. Collins described Trump as "very much someone who is one way...
President Trump suggested Thursday that an executive order could be used to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after Congress failed to pass a temporary extension of the program. “Congress wants me to do it,” Trump said in the Oval Office after being asked by The Hill if an executive order...
President Trump on Thursday opened up previously protected areas of the Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing. Trump signed a proclamation opening up commercial fishing at three marine national monuments. “We're officially reopening nearly half a million square miles — wow — of water around [the] northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa,” he...
President Trump offered stark criticism from the Oval Office of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday, calling him an “angry man” and launching into his grievances with the former Senate Republican Leader. Asked whether there would be enough support from Republicans in Congress for a supplemental bill to fund the Iran war, Trump said he...
