Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Fresh Russian drone, missile strikes hit Ukraine Russia launched a new round of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine early Tuesday, killing at least five people as Kyiv presses Washington to lift restrictions on its weapons....
The Pentagon’s senior-most uniformed official believes the threat of a larger war in the Middle East has decreased following Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah tit for tat earlier this week that resulted in no further strikes. But Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown told Reuters Monday that even with the lowered risk of conflict, Iran and...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story House GOP takes victory lap over Mark Zuckerberg letter House Republicans are taking a victory lap after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter that Biden administration officials "repeatedly pressured" the social media company to take down content related to the...
House Republicans are taking a victory lap after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter Monday that senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” the social media company to take down content related to the COVID-19 pandemic. GOP lawmakers said Tuesday that Zuckerberg’s letter lends credence to the allegations of censorship that they have long...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Eli Lilly cutting prices for obesity, diabetes drug Eli Lilly announced Tuesday it will be cutting the prices of two of the lowest doses of its GLP-1 agonist Zepbound, an antidiabetic and antiobesity medication, allowing for patients to...
Former President Trump is back on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seeking to expand his audience at a time when he's losing ground to his new opponent, Vice President Harris. Trump had posted 18 times between Sunday morning and Tuesday evening on a host of topics to his 90 million followers on...
Vice President Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will participate in their first joint interview with CNN on Thursday, the network announced. CNN’s Dana Bash will conduct the interview, which is set to air at 9 p.m. ET Harris has faced mounting pressure to sit for an interview since she rode to the top of the...
The number of publicly available electric vehicle (EV) chargers has doubled since Biden took office, the Biden administration said Tuesday. There are now 192,000 publicly available charging ports with approximately 1,000 new public chargers being added each week, the Energy Department said in a press release. Access to chargers remains a significant hurdle in the...
Special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment in his case indicting former President Trump for his actions seeking to subvert the 2020 election, retaining the same charges but striking some elements of the case in the wake of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. The Tuesday filing comes after Smith presented the case against the former president...
A coalition of Republican-led states is asking the Supreme Court to halt the Biden administration’s effort to cut methane from oil and gas production. The 23 state attorneys general and Arizona’s GOP-led Legislature are asking the Supreme Court to block the implementation of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that requires oil and gas wells...
Vice President Harris and President Biden will make their first appearance together on the campaign trail since Harris replaced Biden atop the Democratic ticket during a Labor Day event in Pennsylvania. Harris’s campaign said the vice president will spend the holiday Monday campaigning in Detroit and Pennsylvania. Harris will join Biden in Pittsburgh for an...
Former President Trump said Tuesday he would participate in a Sept. 10 debate hosted by ABC News against Vice President Harris if the rules matched those in a CNN debate in June against President Biden. It marked the latest twist in a 24-hour whirlwind in which he raised the possibility of skipping the event because...
Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-fixer, said Tuesday that the GOP nominee has been drawing from the “same old playbook” by raising questions publicly about whether he will participate in the presidential debates. “This is not new,” Cohen said in a CNN interview, responding to Trump’s recent comments about his potential debate participation. “Donald’s been...
