The U.S. Embassy in Israel will be closed from Wednesday to Friday because of the ongoing “security situation” in the region, the State Department announced Tuesday. “Given the security situation and in compliance with Israel Home Front Command guidance, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday, June 18) through Friday (June 20),”...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a Tuesday interview that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) “doesn’t understand” the nuclear threat that Iran poses. “I like Marjorie, but to be honest with you, she doesn't understand the threat, in my view,” Graham said in an interview with Fox News’s John Roberts. “If you don't understand that...
A federal judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a policy requiring identity documents to reflect an individual’s sex “at conception” to all transgender, nonbinary and intersex Americans who want to change the sex designation on their passports. A previous ruling, handed down in April, had ordered the State Department...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) criticized the Trump administration’s use of the military, saying the U.S. is turning into “one of the worst countries.” In an interview late last week, Omar noted the deployment of U.S. troops to quell protests in Los Angeles took place in the same week that the administration held the military parade,...
President Trump is becoming ever more emphatic in his backing of Israel’s attack on Iran, with the chances rising by the hour that he will greenlight direct U.S. involvement. The president discussed the crisis in the White House Situation Room with his closest advisers on Tuesday afternoon. Afterward, according to the Israeli news organization Haaretz,...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Inside the Senate GOP plan to advance Trump's agenda The Senate Finance Committee's portion of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” contains some of the thorniest provisions and could set them on a collision course with the...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story US military readies for Iran involvement The U.S. military is positioning itself to potentially join Israel’s assault on Iran, as President Trump weighs direct action against Tehran to destroy its nuclear program. Trump on Tuesday urged...
President Trump will sign another executive order this week extending the deadline for TikTok's parent company to divest the video sharing app, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. "As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark," Leavitt said in a statement shared with The Hill. "This...
Senators on Tuesday pleaded with top Capitol Police officials for an uptick in member security funding in the wake of the fatal shooting of a Minnesota state legislator. The killing of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband over the weekend sent a chill down the spine of lawmakers...
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first openly transgender member of Congress, says the Democratic Party must create space for disagreement on trans rights and welcome “imperfect allies” to the conversation to facilitate meaningful and lasting change. Since taking office in January, President Trump, who made policies and rhetoric targeting trans people a focus of his reelection...
