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New audio undercuts Dems who defended Biden, slammed Hur after classified docs report revealed memory loss

Newly publicized audio tapes from Robert Hur's classified documents investigation prove his report's claims of Biden struggling to recall names and dates during 2017 interviews.

Kamala Harris backs US Senate candidate who replaced Graham Platner: ‘I know what it is like’

Former Vice President Kamala Harris declared her support for Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson, drawing a parallel between his run and her 2024 presidential bid.

Fetterman strongly supports the filibuster as Trump urges Senate Republicans to scrap it

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman supports the filibuster while President Donald Trump is pressuring Senate Republicans to scrap the filibuster.

GOP senator unveils BOASBERG Act to stop ‘rogue’ judges from handpicking Trump cases

Sen. Eric Schmitt's BOASBERG Act would require random assignment of federal cases and bar chief judges from influencing who hears high-profile disputes.

Battleground Democrat flip-flops on conversion therapy after left-wing backlash

Rebecca Cooke reversed her stance on a federal conversion therapy ban after progressive backlash, raising viability questions in the key swing district.

Academics call on Congress to restore agency independence after Trump v. Slaughter

A group of more than 50 academics on Monday wrote a letter to congressional leaders urging them to restore agency independence following last month’s Supreme Court ruling, which granted President Trump the authority to fire commissioners of independent agencies without cause.  The professors argue that the ruling stalled business for the Consumer Product Safety Commission,...

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong urge UK to take action against Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong wrote an op-ed Monday citing the dangers to industry competition, jobs and a concentration of power if Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merge. “We have watched, with growing alarm, what consolidation does to the breadth and depth of the work we produce: independent film acquisitions at the...

Pentagon mum as US casualties in Iran war rise

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Pentagon mum as US casualties in Iran war rise The Pentagon’s Iran war casualty count topped 600 over the weekend, following a quiet update as the department faces questions about the absence of transparency. © AP...

Senate tees up final vote on Jay Clayton intel chief nomination

The Senate cleared a final procedural hurdle Monday night on President Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), teeing up Jay Clayton for a final vote this week. The 51-43 vote to advance the nomination means the Senate could confirm Clayton as early as Tuesday night to be the...

EPA: Data center power not subject to acid rain restrictions

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story EPA exempts data center plants from acid rain rules The Trump administration announced Monday that it is excluding power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain. © AP...

Paul releases Fauci’s diary entries ahead of hearing

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Health Care   The Big Story Paul releases Fauci's diary entries ahead of hearing Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci will appear before the Senate this week for a hearing. Leading up to his appearance, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released thousands of pages...

Canada tariff fight hands Democrats cudgel in Michigan midterm races

Escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada could play into Democratic messaging around the economy, particularly in the battleground state of Michigan, which has some of the highest cross-border trade of any state. Trump slapped an additional 50 percent tariffs on Canada, accusing the country of “discriminatory” trade practices last week. The president has...

40 percent report buying less produce amid cyclospora outbreak: Poll

A poll released Sunday shows that 40 percent of U.S. adults are buying or eating less produce after the cyclospora outbreak.  Comparatively, according to survey results from CBS/YouGov, 4 percent of people said they are eating more produce. Among respondents, 56 percent said there has been no change in their diet.  Earlier this month, the...

Federal panel votes to propose changes to historic preservation rules that Trump administration says holds up projects

A federal panel on Friday voted to advance a revamp of the nation’s historic preservation rules that Trump administration officials say slow down projects. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, which is made up primarily of Trump appointees, voted to propose to rewrite requirements to consult with the public if a project may impact historic...

Companies rally behind open-source tech 

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Nvidia launches new open-source AI security alliance Nvidia is launching a new alliance focused on building and sharing open-source AI tools to boost cybersecurity defenses, as the push for open-source technologies ramps up in the U.S. © AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Nvidia announced Monday that the Open Secure AI Alliance will use open-source...

Top Democrat calls on Taylor Farms to provide information on Trump administration cyclospora communications

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Monday called on Taylor Farms to provide information about its connections with the White House amid a parasitic outbreak potentially linked to the company's lettuce supply. Garcia wrote a letter to Taylor Farms CEO Bruce Taylor questioning whether the...

Saudi Arabia stares down Trump whiplash on nuclear deal

Saudi Arabia is sending no signals it will accept President Trump’s after-the-fact condition that Riyadh establish ties with Israel as part of a nuclear energy deal with the United States. In fact, its leaders haven’t even conceded that the deal signed last week is off.  Normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia was long a central...

House map roughly as favorable to GOP as 2018’s, despite redistricting: Analysis

A new analysis released Monday says that GOP-led mid-decade redistricting efforts have resulted in a map that resembles 2018's, when Democrats won the majority in the House.  “There’s no question that 2025-2026 mid-cycle redistricting made the overall U.S. House map more Republican-leaning than it was in 2024. The median House seat based on presidential performance,...

Trump sounds communism alarm in Michigan but doesn’t mention El-Sayed

President Trump sounded the alarm over communism during a campaign-style stop in Michigan on Monday ahead of the state’s Democratic Senate primary next week. Trump did not name Senate candidates Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) and Abdul El-Sayed during his rally in Milford, Mich., but he sought to paint Democrats broadly as “communists." The president referred...

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