The U.S. military took down approximately 100 suspected cartel drones at the southern border in August using sophisticated laser systems, officials say.
President Donald Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle as the acting Army secretary following the departure of Dan Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
President Trump is set to participate in an event Thursday afternoon at the White House focused on the administration's "Make America Health Again" (MAHA) commission. Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday unveiled a highly-anticipated report about chronic childhood diseases after the administration promised an analysis into illnesses...
The Trump administration told Harvard on Thursday it would no longer be allowed to enroll international students, a significant escalation in President Trump's war against the university. Kristi Noem, the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ordered Harvard to be taken off the Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification. Along with not...
China has developed asymmetric weapons known as assassin's maces that could cripple America's infrastructure, and Congress must act to strengthen America's digital backbone to prepare for any road ahead.
A staffer on Capitol Hill will be a participant on the popular reality show “Survivor" in its 49th season, which is slated to air this fall. Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s (D-Ill.) communication director, Alex Moore, appeared in the season’s promotional video and identified himself as a Hill staffer. “I work on Capitol Hill, and I think...
Texas lawmakers have passed a ban on nonmedical sales of THC, the intoxicating ingredient in cannabis, sending the measure to Gov. Greg Abbott (R). “If it gets you high, it is not legal anymore” state Rep. Tom Oliverson (R), who sponsored the House bill, told The Dallas Morning News. In passing the ban, Texas joins a wide...
House Republicans on Thursday approved a massive legislative package comprising the major pieces of President Trump's domestic agenda, including tax cuts, an immigration crackdown and sharp cuts in Medicaid. The vote defied the skeptics who thought it impossible to unite the feuding factions of the House GOP behind so large a bill. And it marked...
President Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, after two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot and killed Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington. The suspect walked into the museum, where he was apprehended, and yelled, “Free, free Palestine” once he was arrested, police officials said. The two victims have been identified as Yaron...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, is writing letters to two dozen former senior Biden administration officials to appear before his committee to answer what they knew about former President Biden’s health problems in light of allegations that White House officials deliberately kept his cognitive and physical decline...
Federal forecasters predicted an unusually heavy hurricane season at a briefing in New Orleans on Thursday. “Everything’s in place for an above-average season,” Ken Graham, director of the United States National Weather Service (NWS), told reporters in Louisiana. The NWS predicts three to five major hurricanes this season. Hot oceans and still, stagnant air over...
Officials leading the Jewish museum where two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot and killed called the killings a “devastating” attack on the community. “We are heartbroken by the murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, and send our sincere condolences to their families and friends. May they, and all who grieve this devastating loss, be...
Multiple people are dead after a private plane crashed in a San Diego neighborhood early Thursday morning, setting roughly 15 homes on fire and forcing evacuations on several blocks, officials said. The fatalities were among the small plane’s passengers, and no one on the ground was injured, assistant fire department chief Dan Eddy said at...
