Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team's nine-month rotation to Poland in a move that blindsided both congressional allies and the European nation the Trump administration has publicly called a "model ally."
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Judges seem skeptical of Pentagon arguments in case brought by Sen. Mark Kelly A federal appeals court panel didn’t appear convinced by Defense Department efforts to censure Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and lower his retirement rank...
A Minneapolis man on Thursday pleaded guilty to attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with a syringe filled with vinegar during a town hall in January. Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, faces a maximum term of 96 months in prison but could be behind bars for between four and 14 months, defense lawyer John Fossum told NBC...
U.S. forces on Thursday attacked Iranian military facilities following attacks on American guided-missile destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command (Centcom). President Trump called the strikes a "love tap" in a phone call with ABC News on Thursday evening. Asked if it means the ceasefire is over, he said, "No, no,...
A federal trade court on Thursday struck down tariffs President Trump imposed to replace import taxes that the Supreme Court struck down earlier this year. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) imposed a permanent injunction on the 10 percent tariff Trump imposed on nearly all U.S. imports in February. Judges...
Presented by ACT The App Association {beacon} Technology Technology PRESENTED BY The Big Story Third Way offers game plan for AI job disruption The center-left think tank Third Way is laying out a roadmap for how Washington can respond to potential job disruption from AI in the face of wide-ranging predictions about the technology’s impact....
Brazil’s president said Thursday that President Trump conveyed he has no intention of ordering a U.S. invasion of Cuba, following a meeting between the two leaders held at the White House earlier in the day. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made the remarks in a press conference at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington,...
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Thursday vowed legal action after Tennessee passed a new House map that carves up his majority-Black House congressional district in an effort to flip his seat red in November. Cohen, the lone Democrat in Tennessee’s nine-member House delegation, called the new map “shameful” and criticized Republicans for heeding President Trump’s...
More than a dozen Washington, D.C., police officers were placed on leave this week amid an internal investigation into the alleged manipulation of crime statistics, a development U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said on Thursday did not shock her. “I’m not surprised,” Pirro told reporters. “We did an investigation starting in August, before anybody...
A new report shows that the number of nonfiction books banned in U.S. schools doubled in the last academic year. PEN America's report released Thursday called "Facts & Fiction: Stories Stripped Away by Book Bans" found that 3,743 unique titles were removed from school libraries and classrooms between July 2024 and June 2025. This included...
Rep. James Clyburn, the lone Democrat representing South Carolina in the House, on Thursday ripped a push among Palmetto State Republicans to redraw their district lines amid pressure from President Trump. “Republicans in the South Carolina state legislature began the process of extending their session to allow for the redrawing of the state’s congressional map...
Voters in much of the United Kingdom are going to the polls on Thursday, filling council seats across England and electing members of devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales. From an American perspective, much of the interest will lie in the fate of two politicians with very different relationships to President Trump. British Prime Minister...
An outbreak of hantavirus aboard a Dutch cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is raising concerns about the virus among members of the public wary about another global outbreak. At least three passengers who were aboard the MV Hondius have died, and five other people have been sickened after showing symptoms of the hantavirus. The ship’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, said no symptomatic individuals remain on board. Some passengers,...
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Dave Min (D-Calif.) on Thursday sent letters to 17 people who received pardons or commutations from President Trump, asking whether the president granted them leniency under “pay-for-play” circumstances. The lawmakers said the individuals got Trump's clemency “under suspicious circumstances,” according to a list of recipients released by Min’s office....
