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Miranda Devine: New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ senior leadership used to shutdown any Hunter Biden laptop discussion

The conversations, withheld by the FBI under Director Chris Wray, show that senior leadership issued an internal “gag order” on the laptop. 

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs on Canada in bid to roll back presidential emergency powers

Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.

Why voter ID won in Wisconsin

Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]

Booker says he hoped floor speech would be something that ‘would unify our caucus’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...

Vance, Harris seen as top 2028 White House contenders

Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...

Republican Jimmy Patronis wins special election for Gaetz’s Florida seat

Florida chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis was projected to win the special election to replace former Rep. Matt Gatez (R-Fla.) in the 1st Congressional District, defeating Democrat Gay Valimont, according to Decision Desk HQ. The district is located along Florida’s western panhandle. Patronis jumped into the race last November after Trump publicly encouraged him to...

White House issues warning to China for war games near Taiwan

The Trump administration on Tuesday issued a warning to China after Beijing announced large-scale war games in the waters and airspace around Taiwan. The joint military drills, which were launched with no prior notice and included China's army, navy and air and rocket forces, were meant as a "severe warning and forceful containment against Taiwan...

SCOTUS to hear oral arguments in abortion-related case

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story SCOTUS to hear oral arguments in abortion-related case The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week on its first abortion-adjacent case since President Donald Trump returned to office in January. © The Hill, Greg Nash SCOTUS...

Booker’s speech tops 350 million likes on TikTok live

More than 350 million people liked Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) floor speech on TikTok live, as the senator approached 25 hours of holding the floor in the Senate chamber. By 7:07 p.m. EDT on Tuesday — just over 24 hours after Booker began his historic floor speech on Monday — more than 270 million people...

Trump nominee says he would have stopped Signal breach

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Trump nominee says he would have stopped Signal breach President Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. military’s highest-ranking officer said he would have stopped a Signal chat among senior officials last month had he been in...

Booker sets record for longest Senate speech in history

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Tuesday set a new record for the longest floor speech in Senate history, having held the floor for 25 hours and 5 minutes to decry potential GOP spending cuts in their looming tax bill and policies put in place by the Trump administration. Booker, the No. 4 member of Democratic...

Republican Randy Fine wins Florida special election for Waltz seat

Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) has won the special election for Florida’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district.  Fine’s win will come as a relief for Republicans, who grew increasingly worried about the race as...

GOP rep says ‘tariff is a tax’: ‘No question’

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) on Monday said a “tariff is a tax,” a day before the Trump administration’s imposition of “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs. In Sessions’s appearance on “CNN News Central,” a Monday opinion piece from The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board was brought up by anchor John Berman. “In the real economic world, a...

Trump announces $100M deal with law firm tied to Doug Emhoff, Jan. 6 House panel

President Trump on Tuesday announced his administration struck a deal with a law firm with ties to former second gentleman Doug Emhoff and the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as Trump targets major firms for retribution. The agreement with Willkie Farr & Gallagher states that the firm will provide...

Rahm Emanuel returns to Wall Street, but ‘not done with public service’

Rahm Emanuel, who served in the Biden administration as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, is returning to Wall Street for a new position but said he is “not done with public service.” Emanuel is rejoining the investment bank Centerview Partners, where he worked from 2019 to 2021. He counseled CEOs on mergers, regulation and political...

Trump girds for trade war

Presented by National Council on Aging {beacon} IN HIS BROADEST TRADE MOVE YET, President Trump will outline sweeping tariffs during a White House Rose Garden event Wednesday. Trump met with his trade team Tuesday to hammer out the final details for the announcement, which threatens to ignite a risky global trade war that economists warn would...

The White House’s mixed message on its tariff policy

Trump's tariffs could raise $600 billion a year, but this would only happen if consumers avoid substitution and continue to buy foreign goods at tariff-elevated prices, which is unlikely.

Boebert appears to confuse Oliver Stone with Roger Stone during JFK records hearing

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) appeared to confuse Oliver Stone, an American filmmaker and a witness before House lawmakers on Tuesday, with political strategist Roger Stone during a hearing on the release of new documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “You wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of...

Former GOP lawmakers, officials oppose Trump use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations

A group of former Republican lawmakers and officials is opposing President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act for deportations. The group of conservatives, along with the State Democracy Defenders Fund, filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court to oppose the Trump administration’s use of the 18th-century wartime law. The brief was filed with the high...

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