Border Patrol agents arrested two Mexican fugitives wanted for homicide and lewd acts on a child in California, DHS confirmed, turning both over to Mexico.
The Senate on Saturday blocked an amendment that would ban transgender athletes from playing in women's sports, rejecting one of President Donald Trump's priorities as he pressures Congress to act on a broad voting bill.
President Trump announced on Friday that he met with a primary challenger of Rep. Jeff Hurd’s (R-Colo.) and was able to get her to drop her bid as Republicans look to avoid a nasty contest in a House race that Democrats are eyeing this November. Trump said in a Truth Social post that he had met...
Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) said Thursday that the U.S. does not “really know who’s in charge” in Iran amid reports that the country’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, was “wounded and likely disfigured” in the early days of the war. “I think, so what we have is a fragmented leadership cadre,” Crawford said during an...
The U.S. military blew up an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday, leaving three survivors, the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) announced Friday morning. Southcom said a “low-profile” vessel was being operated by a designated terrorist organization and was transiting along “known narco-trafficking routes.” It is unclear if there were any casualties from...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on Thursday said she will not back the Pentagon's bid for $200 billion in supplemental funding amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, as her GOP colleagues grapple with how to approve such a request with a slim majority. "I've already told leadership, 'I am a no on any war supplementals,'" Boebert...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Israel "acted alone" in its attack on Iran's largest gas compound, action that President Trump said he did not approve of. Netanyahu, during a press conference, said despite the strike, there is no disagreement between him and Trump over the ongoing military operation in Iran. "It’s been...
Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Hegseth goes after allies, media ▪ Trump says no boots on ground in Iran ▪ SAVE America Act votes coming ▪ Education Department portfolio moves Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken on the role of top attack dog defending President Trump while he oversees...
It has been more than a decade since artificial intelligence and military experts were calling AI and autonomous weaponry “the third revolution in warfare,” after gunpowder and nuclear weapons. Now, with the joint U.S.-Israel operation in Iran, codenamed Operation Epic Fury by the U.S. and Operation Roaring Lion by Israel, we are witnessing the next stage of that evolution.
One year after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the shuttering of the Education Department, the agency has taken its biggest step yet toward self-elimination. On Thursday, the department announced that it would seek to move its $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio to the Treasury, the latest in a series of interagency agreements...
The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, is urging American citizens to avoid large crowds amid reports of “anticipated pro-Cuban regime and anti-U.S. policy protests and rallies” in the coming days. The Embassy issued an alert shortly before 7 p.m. EDT on Thursday, citing the planned demonstrations and reports of a protest scheduled for Saturday on...
