President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting that similar scenes of migrants flooding into Spain could play out in the U.S. if Democrats gain power.
Anthony Fauci walked away from questions about pleading the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during Rand Paul's Senate hearing on gain-of-function research.
Trump dismissed claims that Iranian hackers targeted Minnesota water systems, instead blaming the state's governor for what he called gross incompetence.
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly had a blunt message to the thousands of Haitians and Syrians protected from deportation under a form of humanitarian relief after the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday the Trump administration could end these protections. “We don’t want you. We don’t care if you’re offended,” Kelly said during a taping...
Jacqueline Smith, the ombudsman of outlet Stars and Stripes who was ousted in April after she criticized the Pentagon’s new restrictions on the newspaper, is suing the Defense Department. In a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., Smith alleges that her firing was retaliatory and violated her First Amendment rights as it happened 10 days after...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Back at it with Iran? The U.S. military said it conducted strikes against Iranian sites on Friday, less than an hour after President Trump indicated action would be taken against Tehran. The president cited Thursday’s attack...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Thursday re-upped Democratic-led warnings about election interference ahead of the midterm elections. Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly voiced concerns about the Trump administration’s efforts to access voter data from many U.S. states and cited President Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. “There is no question...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday that he was briefly separated from his 4-year-old twin children after an anonymous caller reported false accusations to Child Protective Services (CPS). In a Substack post titled “A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family,” the former Biden administration official said he was the subject of a “swatting” incident,...
A draft final report from President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released Friday calls for “building bridges between church and state,” a reversal of a long-standing U.S. legal principle. “Americans must know their rights and stand with courage when those rights are challenged,” the commission’s report read. “To preserve this freedom, we must build bridges, not walls,...
The U.S. military said it conducted strikes against Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar locations on Friday, a day after Tehran struck a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes by U.S. forces in the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) came after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged container...
The Trump administration, Israel and Lebanon on Friday announced a trilateral framework aimed at kicking out Iran’s influence in the country through its support of the militant group Hezbollah and paving a way for an Israeli withdrawal from territory it holds in the south. The agreement came after three days of intense talks between Israeli...
A concert by controversial rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is expected go ahead as planned on Friday night in Tampa Bay despite a more than weeklong campaign from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to cancel the upcoming shows. He is currently scheduled to perform two shows at Raymond James Stadium this weekend, which Scott...
Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-Md.) is projected to fend off a serious challenge from her predecessor, former Rep. David Trone (D-Md.), in a bitter contest between two wealthy Democrats for a blue-leaning House seat in northwestern Maryland, according to Decision Desk HQ. Trone, the Total Wine & More co-owner, previously represented the district between 2019 and 2025 before making an unsuccessful...
