Democrat Josh Turek defeated Zach Wahls in Iowa's Senate primary, setting up a general election battle against GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson for Ernst's seat.
The U.S. military on Friday killed three men in its latest strike on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) wrote in a post on the social platform X that the vessel was "transiting along known narco-trafficking routes" and being operated by designated terrorist organizations, but the...
The head of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) met with senior leaders of the Cuban military on Friday amid heightened tensions between the two countries' governments. Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan joined Cuba’s First Deputy Minister of the Chief of the General Staff Roberto Legrá Sotolongo and other leaders near Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Southcom announced...
President Trump endorsed a GOP challenger to Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) campaign for South Carolina governor on Friday, backing Lt. Gov. Pam Evette in the contest. The president lauded Evette as an “America First Patriot” who “never wavered” in a Truth Social post on Friday evening. “Pam Evette is a good friend, fighter, and WINNER,...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump’s pronatalist agenda not delivering yet Despite a heap of policies and rules aimed at encouraging more births in the U.S. under the Trump administration, becoming a parent doesn’t seem to have become easier and people of childrearing...
A federal judge in Florida agreed to reopen President Trump’s bid to sue the IRS for $10 billion, siding with intervenors who said a settlement to create an “anti-weaponization” fund tainted the case. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Trump agreed to voluntarily dismiss his suit against the IRS in exchange for the creation of...
The Democratic candidate in the Texas Senate race has a slight edge over his Republican opponent in a new poll released Friday. Forty-seven percent of likely general election voters in the state backed state Rep. James Talarico (D) in the poll from Texas Public Opinion Research, compared with 44 percent for Texas Attorney General Ken...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday endorsed a $250 bill to commemorate the U.S. semiquincentennial featuring President Trump. Larry Kudlow, a conservative contributor for Fox Business, asked the Trump administration official about his opinion of the proposed currency during a sit-down interview at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. “We are going to have the...
The Pentagon’s new $9.7 billion contract with Dell is raising questions about potential conflicts of interest after President Trump touted the company’s products and purchased significant amounts of its stock. The Department of Defense (DOD) on Wednesday announced a five-year agreement with Dell for Microsoft software and cloud services as part of an effort consolidate...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said Friday that his country will cut the stay of the U.S. military aircraft in Sofia at the end of June after the Trump administration did not greenlight a visa-free pass for Bulgarian visitors to the U.S. “I called for the suspension of visas for Bulgarian citizens during my conversation...
