Democratic leaders laid out their terms for continuing to fund Homeland Security on Wednesday, saying the department must severely curb its immigration enforcement and return to Biden-era policies limiting arrests if Congress is to pass a new spending bill.
The Pentagon said late Thursday that two Venezuelan aircraft flew close to a U.S. Naval vessel in what it called a “highly provocative move.” “Today, two Maduro regime military aircraft flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters. This highly provocative move was designed to interfere with our counter narco-terror operations,” the Defense Department...
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Thursday slammed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as “the biggest threat to the health of the American people.” “Listen, we are in a tragically ironic moment in which the biggest threat to the health of the American people is the secretary of Health and Human...
President Trump will attend the men’s U.S. Open tennis final on Sunday in New York, a White House official told The Hill. Semafor first reported on the president’s trip to Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows for the match, set for 2 p.m. The matchup for the final isn’t yet decided, and no American men...
President Trump on Thursday said “real” jobs numbers will come next year, ahead of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) first jobs report since he fired its leader in response to dismal numbers in July. “They come out tomorrow, but the real numbers that I’m talking about are going to be whatever it is, but will be...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Thursday responded to ProPublica reporting about Trump Cabinet members’ mortgages, saying that “the hypocrisy of the Trump administration is nothing short of staggering.” “Donald Trump has made mortgage fraud accusations his weapon of choice to attack people standing in his way and people standing up to him, like me,” Schiff...
President Trump on Thursday night hosted top tech executives in a one-of-a-kind White House event, during which he asked attendees to say how much their companies were investing in U.S. manufacturing. The president sat beside Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a long table, with first lady Melania Trump on the other side. Microphones and place...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump’s strike on ‘narco-terrorist’ boat legally murky The Trump administration's few details about a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea has fueled questions as to whether it violated maritime law or human...
An appeals court issued a Thursday order halting the dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration's migrant detention site based in the Florida Everglades. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit overturned a lower court’s order that deemed the site a threat to the environment. Judge Barbara Lagoa and...
Former President Biden underwent a procedure recently to have skin cancer removed from his forehead, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Thursday. A Biden spokesperson told The Hill that the former president had Mohs surgery, a procedure where surgeons cut away thin layers of skin, examining each for signs of cancer, until no signs...
It wasn't only Democrats confronting President Trump's health secretary during a heated hearing in the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. Three Republican senators — Bill Cassidy (La.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and John Barrasso (Wyo.) — also harshly questioned Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his opinion on Trump’s COVID-19 response,...
Related video: Ukraine Supported By Broad Coalition; Trump Urges Economic Pressure On Russia President Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order Friday formally renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, the White House confirmed. Trump had in recent days signaled the change was coming, pointing to the history behind the name and...
The Trump administration has offered few details about a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that it has asserted killed 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers, fueling questions as to whether it violated maritime law or human rights conventions. President Trump, who announced Tuesday that American forces destroyed a vessel from Venezuela allegedly...
Related video: RFK Jr. Gets Into SHOUTING Matches With Democrats Over VACCINES - 12:30 Report Michael Osterholm, a former Biden administration adviser on COVID-19, said Wednesday that “Florida’s going to become a hotbed of transmission” after Sunshine State officials announced they will seek to make the state the first in the U.S. to officially remove...
