President Trump’s hush money criminal conviction returns to the limelight Wednesday as his attorneys plead with an appeals panel to move the New York case to federal court. The oral arguments will unfold in a Lower Manhattan courthouse down the block from where a jury convicted Trump on 34 felonies last year. It marks the...
Elon Musk is voicing regret for his public feud with President Trump, days after an explosive set of public attacks shattered the pair's close alliance. "I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far," Musk wrote in an early morning post on his social media platform X on Wednesday. ...
The boom in artificial intelligence (AI) risks filling Texas air with toxins, a report has found. State regulators are considering proposals for more than 100 new gas power projects — the vast majority of them entirely new plants — to power a new wave of data centers, according to findings published early Wednesday by the Environmental Integrity...
A judge has rejected California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) emergency request to limit President Trump’s Los Angeles troop deployment. Newsom had earlier Tuesday asked a federal judge to immediately intervene to limit Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in L.A., asking for an emergency ruling by 1 p.m. PDT that day. U.S. District Judge Charles...
The matchup for New Jersey’s gubernatorial race is set, with Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli having won their respective nominations Tuesday. Ciattarelli’s victory, after having won the GOP nomination four years ago and gained President Trump’s coveted endorsement, seemed all but assured heading into the primary. Sherrill was the slight favorite in...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday agreed to let many of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on United States trade partners remain in effect for now, extending a pause issued late last month after a separate court ruled the tariffs were illegal. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Trump administration’s request for a longer...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in a Tuesday news conference announced she was enacting a curfew for a small part of downtown L.A. as a way "to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting" after five days of protests in response to immigration raids. The curfew covers one square mile and is scheduled to begin...
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on Tuesday called for de-escalation in downtown Los Angeles following the federal troop deployment to quell protests. In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” the moderate Republican said the massive show of force in L.A. is important to send a message against “lawlessness” in the city but that the situation should...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story National Guard, Marines deployed to LA come with hefty price tag The Pentagon estimates the deployment of the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles to quell immigration raid protests will cost about $134 million, and...
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) was indicted Tuesday on federal charges claiming she forcibly impeded and interfered with law enforcement officers after a clash outside an immigration detention facility in Newark on May 9. A press release from the U.S. attorney's office for the District of New Jersey stated that McIver allegedly took such action amid an attempted arrest...
Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) has won the Democratic nomination for governor of New Jersey, coming out on top of a crowded field, according to Decision Desk HQ. Sherrill defeated five other major candidates for the nomination in a hotly contested primary to succeed two-term Gov. Phil Murphy (D), who is term limited. She entered the...
Former state Assembly member Jack Ciattarelli has won the Republican nomination for governor of New Jersey a second time, giving him a chance to get over the finish line after falling short four years ago, according to Decision Desk HQ. Ciattarelli defeated a few other challengers for the GOP nod, most notably former talk radio...
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Tuesday slammed President Trump over the recent immigration protests in Los Angeles, saying the president “wanted this fight.” “He wanted to focus on immigration and crime enforcement to distract attention away from the problems that his reconciliation bill is [having],” Smith told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” “You know,...
