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House punts Trump spy powers extension after conservatives block deal, forcing end-of-month showdown

The FISA Section 702 surveillance program hit a temporary roadblock after House conservatives rejected a long-term extension early Friday morning.

House passes short-term spy powers extension in late-night vote after deal falls apart

The House unanimously passed a short-term of the nation’s spy powers until in the wee hours Friday morning — pushing the deadline from April 20 to April 30 — after GOP rebels dramatically rejected a late-night, last-minute deal to extend for five years while adding some additional reforms and language intended to woo the holdouts....

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ICE acting director Todd Lyons to resign at end of May, DHS says

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday.

Trump expected to nominate Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA after his firing last year

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Cameron Hamilton, a former U.S. Navy SEAL whom the administration fired as the Federal Emergency Management Agency's acting leader last year, as FEMA's permanent administrator, according to a person familiar with the matter.

McCarthy: ‘Right now, Trump has more power than Reagan’

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday said President Trump "has more power" than former President Reagan. McCarthy emphasized Trump's executive strength during a talk at Harvard University's Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., where he spoke about his time in the House and the future of democracy in the U.S. "Right now, Trump has more...

RSV season runs into spring 

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} View Online Health Care Health Care   The Big Story An unusually late RSV season runs into spring A later-than-expected season of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has states extending eligibility for preventive measures in children. Experts are urging parents to keep in mind the measures that...

Watch live: Artemis II crew holds press conference from space

The Artemis II crew will give remarks from the Orion spacecraft on Thursday evening, just days after the four astronauts traveled further into space than anyone before them. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — embarked on the 10-day lunar flyby mission...

Van Hollen: Trump ‘genocide’ post shows Republican Party is ‘bankrupt’

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesday went after the Republican response to President Trump’s recent post threatening Iran in which he stated that “a whole civilization will die." “It says something about just how bankrupt the Republican Party has become under Donald Trump, that none of them said a peep. And so, the reality...

Wisconsin mayor who removed ballot drop boxes won’t face charges

A Wisconsin mayor who removed an absentee ballot drop box from city hall ahead of the 2024 presidential election will not face charges, a special prosecutor said Wednesday. Doug Diny, the mayor of Wausau, has maintained that he did nothing wrong when he carted away the city’s lone ballot drop box in September 2024, according...

Sotomayor says AI forecasting Supreme Court decisions a ‘bad thing,’ shows ‘we’re way too predictable’

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday called artificial intelligence models that have found success in anticipating how the high court will rule in upcoming cases “a very bad thing.” “It shows we're way too predictable,” Sotomayor told students while speaking at the University of Alabama School of Law. “And we may not be stepping...

Trump slams conservative media figures over splitting with him on Iran

President Trump on Thursday tore into several right-wing media figures who had been reliably supportive of him during his second term until the U.S. war in Iran broke out. The president attacked several of the hosts and commentators personally, dismissed their viewpoints on the war and defended the military operation in the Middle East. "I...

State Department to hold ceasefire talks between Israel, Lebanon

The State Department will host a meeting next week in Washington, D.C., to discuss ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Israel and Lebanon, a department official confirmed Thursday. The official gave no further details on the talks, which will be focused on ending current hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, which Israel has targeted in...

Silicon Valley turns to new media to sell AI 

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Silicon Valley turns to new media to sell AI Silicon Valley is embracing nontraditional media to pitch its vision of technology as concerns mount over artificial intelligence’s impact on the workforce, economy and environment. © Illustration / Samantha Wong; and Adobe Stock Tech and business leaders are turning...

Petraeus: Iran could emerge from war ‘militarily weakened’ but ‘strategically strengthened’

Retired Gen. David Petraeus, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, said there is a “paradoxical question” about the future of Iran amid its conflict with the U.S. and Israel.   “We can only answer it when the ultimate resolution is achieved here, but that is whether Iran will emerge militarily very weakened,” the retired general...

Khanna: Netanyahu in Situation Room ‘a betrayal of the American people’

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reportedly being in the White House's Situation Room weeks before the U.S.-Israeli joint military operation in Iran began. "Let's start with this pledge," Khanna, a possible 2028 White House contender, wrote on the social platform X. "The next Democratic President will never...

StubHub to pay customers $10M in settlement, FTC says: Do you qualify?

Ticket exchange and resale giant StubHub has agreed to pay $10 million to customers to settle a deceptive ticket pricing case, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Thursday.

Trump tells Netanyahu to pull back on Israel’s barrage on Lebanon 

President Trump on Thursday confirmed he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back on a barrage of strikes Israel is conducting in Lebanon, as that operation stands to threaten a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Iran has indicated that a two-week ceasefire agreement reached Tuesday with the U.S. includes the halting...

Watch live: NASA officials give update on Artemis II as mission enters final stretch

NASA officials are set to give their daily update on the historic Artemis II mission, as the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are on their way back to Earth. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — are expected to splash down...

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