At first glance, the decision by Bill and Hillary Clinton to drop their long resistance and agree to testify before a GOP-controlled House panel about Jeffrey Epstein looks like...
TikTok said Thursday that it has established a new U.S. venture as part of an agreement to allow the popular social media platform to continue operating in the U.S. The deal brings to a close a lengthy saga for the app, which faced a ban if it failed to divest from its Chinese parent company...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story After House floor drama, a narrow defeat of Venezuela war powers resolution The House narrowly voted down a Democratic-led war powers resolution meant to block President Trump from using military force in Venezuela without Congressional approval....
A magistrate judge on Thursday rejected federal charges against journalist Don Lemon in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church. Lemon, who was fired from CNN in 2023, said he was there as a journalist, not as part of the demonstrations. “Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism...
Actress and activist Jane Fonda said Wednesday that authoritarianism has spread to "every single nook and cranny of" the federal government while talking about federal immigration enforcement raids. "We pay their salaries," Fonda told "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert. "We should be in charge. If the government is not meeting the needs of its...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Paris Hilton pushes for passage of Defiance Act The former reality TV star called on the House to pass a bill that would give victims of deepfake pornography the right to sue individuals who produce and share the content, citing her own experience having intimate images shared without...
Many of the countries that signed on to join President Trump’s "Board of Peace" to stabilize Gaza are also banned from immigrant visas by the State Department. Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Morocco, Mongolia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan are among the 75 countries the Trump administration has deemed likely to require public assistance...
Former national security adviser John Bolton said President Trump’s de-escalation on Greenland shows he has “no grand strategy” surrounding his plans for the island. “In one day, we went from what some doomsayers in Europe were saying was the most consequential meeting on the future of the West in recent history to Trump backing off...
President Trump on Thursday addressed bruising on his hand seen at an event earlier in the day. saying he “clipped” it on a table and attributing being easily bruised to the side effects of taking aspirin daily for his heart condition. “I’m very good,” Trump said when a reporter traveling with him on Air Force...
Several House Democrats joined with nearly all Republicans to approve a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday, as anger grows over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics. The $64.4 billion bill, which includes roughly $10 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), passed the House by a vote of 220-207. All...
Snapchat is launching new tools that give parents more information about how their teens use the platform, the social media company announced Thursday. The company said it is rolling out new features for Family Center, an in-app tool for parents, that will allow them to see their teens’ daily average screen time on Snapchat and how they split their...
Michael Fanone, a former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Ivan Raiklin, a conservative activist and conspiracy theorist who frequently appears on Capitol Hill to protest the outcome of the 2020 election, got into an altercation Thursday at a hearing featuring former special counsel Jack Smith. Video of...
