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The family and friends of Michel Ortega Casanova said he was one of four men killed in an armed confrontation off the Cuban Coast.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) on Thursday announced that federal immigration agents are banned from city property while also mandating Denver law enforcement to protect protesters. Johnston issued the ban via an executive order. The order mandates that Denver police and sheriff's deputies document federal immigration officers with body cameras, give life-saving aid to someone...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Maryland sheriffs on Thursday slammed a new state law that bars cooperation agreements between federal immigration officers and local authorities. ICE accused Maryland lawmakers of allowing Americans to become "hurt or, worse, killed by criminal aliens," the agency posted on the social platform X. The post included a video...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Trump administration enacts 6-month moratorium on Minnesota Medicaid payments Vice President Vance and top health official Mehmet Oz announced a 6-month “moratorium” on Medicaid payments to Minnesota, claiming it was an effort to crack down on fraud. The...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday criticized questions she said she got from House Republicans about UFOs and the "Pizzagate" conspiracy during her deposition as part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being...

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Pentagon draws scrutiny with Anthropic threats, Defense Production Act The Pentagon is threatening to use the Defense Production Act (DPA) against Anthropic amid a dispute over the company’s restrictions on its AI tools, in a move that many experts say is an unusual use of the measure. ©...

At least two individuals on the boat involved in a shooting with Cuban forces on Wednesday were U.S. citizens, with one dead and the other injured, a U.S. official told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation on Thursday.  A third person on the U.S.-registered boat was on a U.S. K-11 visa, the official added. The shootout,...

Netflix on Thursday said it would not match a bid from Paramount seeking to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery, the sprawling media empire that includes legacy brands in news and entertainment like CNN and HBO. News of the streamer bowing out of its deal with Warner Bros. Discovery came just minutes after the David Zaslav-led company...

Anthropic said Thursday that “virtually no progress” had been made in the company’s talks with the Pentagon over the terms of use for its AI models ahead of a Friday afternoon deadline. The Department of Defense (DOD) delivered its last and final offer to the company on Wednesday night, asking the firm to allow the...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday revealed that childhood and teen obesity rates in the U.S. have reached record highs in recent years. The first report details how the CDC's researchers found that 40.3 percent of adults 20 and older were found to be obese, which included 9.7 percent who have...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Wednesday pressed Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Administrator Terry Cole for answers on an investigation into possible drug trafficking and suspicious financial transactions involving the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wyden sent a letter to Cole requesting an unredacted version of a 2015 memorandum that references a probe entitled “Chain Reaction,” in...

More than 32 million people tuned in to watch President Trump's annual State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen Media Research. The 32.6 million figure is down from the 36 million who watched the president's first address to Congress of his second term last year, but it ranks slightly higher than...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story As strikes loom, Democrats to force vote to limit Trump’s war powers in Iran House Democrats will force a vote next week to curb President Trump’s war powers in Iran, but the measure has a tough...

Warner Bros. Discovery, the sprawling entertainment company that owns major media brands like HBO and CNN, said Thursday it now favors a bid made by Paramount to buy the company's key assets over a previous agreement with streamer Netflix. The company's board, "following consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors," said it had found...