Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to spend up to $2 million on robot “dogs” to assist its agents' operations, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding document. A funding document posted to DHS's Acquisition Planning Forecast System on Thursday said the agency could spend between $1 million and $2 million on...
Two Trump administration officials are calling for an independent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigation into the government's response to the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment — which caused toxic chemicals to spill into the town. In a joint Friday letter, Vice President JD Vance and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asked the EPA’s acting inspector...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) walked back its move Friday to advise its journalists not to refer directly to Al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the U.S. as an act of terrorism — guidance that garnered widespread criticism from political leaders. In an internal memo this week first reported by The Toronto Sun, CBC’s...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions of four Army officers picked for promotion to one-star rank, some of whom have ties to top Army generals the Pentagon chief ousted earlier this year, The Hill has learned. Some of the officers pulled from the list have links to former Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, who...
The U.S. military this week used a high-energy laser to shoot down three drones near the southern border that officials said were linked to Mexican drug cartels. The operation took place late Tuesday and early Wednesday and involved the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser system to bring down the drones along the U.S.-Mexican border, Joint...
Elected officials everywhere are under pressure to bring prices down; dumping costly climate laws that outlaw the use of abundant and relatively cheap fossil fuels is an attractive fix.
[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Hill Insider members can join us live today at 9 a.m. ET as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] There is a rhythm like the seasons to a midterm election year. First, when there’s still frost...
A group of Democratic senators are calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse a planned housing development in the West Bank that would effectively divide the Palestinian territory. In a Friday letter led by Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego (D), over a dozen lawmakers expressed concerns over the government’s decision to open bidding last...
In today's issue: ▪ Iran war approach shifts ▪ Trump gives Paxton a boost ▪ Warsh makes key Fed speech ▪ Leavitt’s last day Today marks six months since the start of the war with Iran, which President Trump said would last for four to five weeks. The conflict has settled into a tense but relatively quiet holding...
The key fact: The creatine did something for people who were already training. The barbell is the intervention — the powder is just a rounding adjustment.
Thirty-one percent of Generation Z-ers who voted for President Trump say they regret it, a recent Navigator poll reports. Millennials followed at 28 percent, with 20 percent of Gen Xers and 10 percent of Baby Boomers saying they regret backing Trump, too. It’s another sign of the dismal polling Trump and the GOP are facing as Republican lawmakers...
When Pete Buttigieg appeared at a rally in Michigan earlier this month in an attempt to unify the Democratic Party around Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign, the former transportation secretary wasn't just lending a hand to the candidate. Buttigieg, one of many Democrats circling the 2028 presidential contest, might also have been helping himself. Michigan, which...
President Trump’s goal to reshape the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has hit a snag as a senator from his own party presses the agency for reforms. Trump has nominated four new governors for the USPS board, two of whom — Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo — are headed for a Senate floor...
Negotiations between Senate and House Republicans over a bill to reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have stalled as President Trump is scheduled to visit NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday. The split between the two chambers is a problem for the president, as it could put in jeopardy his priority of establishing a...
OpenAI leads the call among other technology firms for “collective action” against “AI-enabled cyber attacks.” “Today’s AI advances are already giving defenders new ways to fix weaknesses that have accumulated for years. If we act decisively, we can use the defenders’ window to make our digital world much more secure,” the company wrote in a...
A federal judge in Boston has again blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with new mail-in voting restrictions ahead of the November midterms for at least another two weeks. Judge Indira Talwani ruled Thursday night that a group of blue states and private voting rights groups were likely to succeed in their claims that...
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday the Pentagon's blacklisting of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic earlier this year was illegal, violating the First Amendment. In a ruling Thursday evening, Judge Rita Lin said the Trump administration retaliated against the Claude-maker for its "constitutionally protected activity," and violated the Due Process clause of the...
A Florida grand jury found Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-Fla.) administration “misappropriated” a payment from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation — an organization “championed” by first lady Casey DeSantis. The grand jury argued the $10 million transfer was "part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities," according to a copy of the...
