Republicans at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas reflect on Charlie Kirk's assassination one year after the Turning Point USA founder was killed at a college event.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) announced that he will vote to confirm Kash Patel, President Trump’s choice to lead the FBI. Cassidy, the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said on Tuesday that he talked to “multiple people I respect about Kash Patel this weekend—both for and against.” “The ones who worked...
Senate Republicans on Tuesday said they are open to the idea of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accessing the IRS’s sensitive taxpayer information, as long as there are guardrails in place. Reports emerged over the weekend that a member of Musk’s team at DOGE was attempting to access that information — which includes...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Tuesday sued to challenge the Trump administration's moves to block funding for refugee resettlement programs. Immigration groups have already sued the administration for suspending new refugee admissions, but the new lawsuit seeks to stop the State Department from freezing funding for local organizations that partner with the...
The Senate GOP on Tuesday officially teed up a vote on its budget resolution for later this week in a bid to enact a portion of President Trump's agenda. Senators voted 50-47 to kick off consideration of the budget resolution, which the Senate Budget Committee advanced last week. The resolution outlines guidelines Republicans would use...
Nearly 170 employees at the National Science Foundation (NSF) who were still on probation were fired by the Trump administration on Tuesday, union officials told The Hill. The cuts at the agency responsible for funding scientific research hit more than 10 percent of their staff, with 168 fired out of roughly 1,500 career employees. The...
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Tuesday introduced a bill proposing to rename part of the street near the Russian ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C., as “Alexei Navalny Way.” The bill would honor the late Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, who died almost exactly a year ago in a...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Howard Lutnick to serve as Commerce secretary, approving a key member of President Trump’s economic team amid rising trade tensions. Senators voted 51-45 in favor of Lutnick’s confirmation to lead the Commerce Department, which has broad authority over U.S. trade, shipping, infrastructure, telecommunications, environmental monitoring and intellectual property. Lutnick, the...
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen derided “wokeness and DEI” as the video game retailer giant seeks to sell operations in France and Canada. The company announced in a Tuesday release that as a part of “its evaluation of its international assets,” GameStop “intends to pursue a sale of its operations in France and Canada.” On the...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Judge questions motives for Trump’s transgender troop ban A federal judge sparred with the Justice Department over the breadth of President Trump’s executive order to bar transgender people from serving openly in the military during a...
Lead negotiators from the Colorado River's Upper Basin states expressed a dual sense of uncertainty and urgency on Tuesday, as a deadline to determine the fate of the entire system looms near. "If you are in the Upper Basin states or probably anywhere across the West, you know it's not looking so good right now,"...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with his Russian counterpart in Riyadh on Tuesday marked a major shift in U.S. relations with the country, ending a policy of isolation imposed after Russia’s full-scale invasion against Ukraine in February 2022. U.S. and Russian officials left meetings signaling a reset in the bilateral relationship, though no concrete...
A new article published this week in The Lancet medical journal found that more than half of the world's population lacks access to safe and affordable medical oxygen services, and most people outside of high-income countries go without adequate oxygen services for their medical conditions. As the Lancet Global Health Commission noted in its report...
