The United States faces a critical technological innovation test. Artificial intelligence requires massive amounts of computing power to function. That computing power requires physical infrastructure. America must continue our decadeslong history of building mainframes and data centers to process information in order to maintain our global leadership. However, a growing political movement is actively trying […]
In today’s issue: By the end of next week, lawmakers will bid farewell to a legislative year that proved to be both the best and worst of times. Their leftover legislative goals before the holidays are familiar but proved onerous: keep the government funded and put the annual must-pass defense authorization measure on the president’s...
President-elect Trump has named several people to his next administration who have faced legal troubles, including Trump himself who was convicted in a New York hush money case during his 2024 campaign. Some of his appointees have served jail time, including cases that involve protecting Trump on Jan. 6 during his first administration. Other convictions...
Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) suggested that President-elect Trump has signaled he would have lawmakers on the special House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol imprisoned because he is "embarrassed" by the panel's findings. "We were investigating, as per the request from Congress to do that, we obviously...
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reportedly did not have insurance through the company, according to NBC News. UnitedHealth Group said there is no record of Mangione being insured through UnitedHealthcare, as reported by NBC News. The Hill has contacted NYPD for additional comment. “We have no indication that he...
E-commerce giant Amazon is planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Trump’s inaugural fund, matching the amount Meta already donated to the incoming president’s inauguration. Amazon will be donating $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and also making a $1 million in-kind contribution, as the company will stream the formal admission through Prime Video, multiple outlets...
President-elect Trump backed the dockworkers' union as it prepares for a strike over automation in mid-January — right before the former president is set to return to the Oval Office. Trump said in a post on Truth Social Thursday that he had just met with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), its president, Harold Daggett, and...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Thursday described herself as "more of a Ronald Reagan Republican" than a "Trump Republican." "I don't think I've made any secret of the fact that I'm more of a Ronald Reagan Republican than I am a Trump Republican. And someone said, ‘Well, you aren’t really a Republican at all.’ And...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said that he and President-elect Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan have the same immigration goal following their Thursday meeting in the Big Apple. "His goal is the same goal I have," Adams said during a press conference after his meeting with Homan. "We cannot allow dangerous individuals to...
Pete Hegseth will meet with President-elect Trump at the Army-Navy game on Saturday, a Hegseth adviser told The Hill. The president-elect was expected to attend the game, which will take place in Landover, Md., outside of Washington, D.C. The Washington Post first reported that Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, would also attend and meet with Trump....
Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-head of the newly created "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), commended Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) for shredding 208 executive orders after repealing them Thursday. "Nice work, @GovofCO. Send that shredder over to DOGE next month," Ramaswamy wrote in a Thursday post on the social platform X, responding to pictures of Polis...
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) took aim at FBI Director Christopher Wray, who announced his intent to step down from the role ahead of President-Trump’s apparent plans to fire him. "I, maybe, you know, Director Wray is right that by removing himself, he removes a target, but he’s going to be replaced with a partisan hack who...
