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 […]
It's set to be a busy day on Capitol Hill as Congress races to wrap up major, must-pass legislation and President-elect Trump's Cabinet picks make their case to senators. In the House, lawmakers are slated to vote on the annual defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The mammoth bill is...
The country is awash in hundreds, if not thousands, of election analyses, but many of the tools being employed are laden with problems and pitfalls and much of the data is subject to multiple interpretations.
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has left Iran and Russia on the outside, while Iran is accelerating its pursuit of a nuclear weapon and al-Shabaab is emerging as a potential proxy for Iran in the Horn of Africa.
In today’s issue: President-elect Trump is building a government that resembles the seating charts at a Mar-a-Lago VIP event: friends, billionaire influencers, endorsers, campaign donors, family members and like-minded professionals with communications skills. With diplomatic posts in mind, Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate Kimberly Guilfoyle, a lawyer and campaign fundraiser who was Donald Trump...
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will host the first-ever White House Conference on Women’s Health Research on Wednesday, according to details shared with The Hill. The Washington Post first reported the news late Tuesday. Business and philanthropic leaders, academic researchers, women’s health advocates, investors and federal agency representatives will discuss scientific innovations...
A man was arrested Tuesday after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said she was accosted. “I was physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women. Capitol police have arrested him,” Mace said in a post on X. U.S. Capitol Police confirmed the incident, noting they arrested a person accused of assaulting a...
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said she has offered a 1,400-acre ranch on the Texas-Mexico border and intends to lease it to the Trump administration for its mass deportation plan. Buckingham joined NewNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill” Tuesday, where she said she anticipates the state leasing the federal government the land once the Trump...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a Fox News interview that aired Monday that his party’s new agenda will be “very aggressive beginning right out of the gate.” "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier questioned Johnson about a report from The New York Times about the House Speaker soon having to deal with a miniscule...
President-elect Trump on Tuesday announced his one-time ambassador to El Salvador, Ron Johnson, would serve as ambassador to Mexico in his upcoming administration. Johnson, who shares a name with the GOP senator from Wisconsin, will take on one of the highest-profile diplomatic posts in the incoming Trump administration. Trump has already threatened Mexico with tariffs...
President-elect Trump’s poaching of a number of high-profile Florida officials to serve in his second administration is creating openings for a new slate of leaders in the Sunshine State. Trump nomination of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) will give Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) the opportunity to appoint a replacement who will serve until 2026. Meanwhile,...
Thousands of people in Southern California were under evacuation orders or warnings on Tuesday, as the Franklin Fire roared through the wealthy Malibu area and firefighters struggled to contain it. The fire scorched more than 2,700 acres and remained zero percent contained as of Tuesday afternoon. More than 18,000 people and some 8,100 homes and...
David Kaczynski, the brother of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, said he hopes his brother wasn’t a model for the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting. “I think we always have to remember that human motivation is extremely complicated,” Kaczynski said in a phone interview with NBC News. “Many factors go into a person’s motivation that they...
Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), the chair of the House Ethics Committee, told The Hill on Tuesday that the panel met this week and does not have any more gatherings scheduled for the 118th Congress, signaling that it is done deliberating on its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). “We met earlier this week and...
President-elect Trump has tapped Andrew Ferguson, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as the next head of the independent agency. Trump, in a statement Tuesday night, touted Ferguson's hard-line approach toward protecting free speech and what the president-elect described as Big Tech's "censorship" of certain views. "Andrew has a proven record of standing...
