Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran faces consequences for violating commitments, saying Tehran demands illegal control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Arizona voters teed up a slew of competitive races Tuesday as Republicans look to take back control of the Grand Canyon State’s executive branch in November. Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who’s considered the most endangered gubernatorial incumbent this cycle, will show down against Republican Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), a House Freedom Caucus member backed by President Trump. Democrats also currently hold Arizona’s attorney general and secretary of state posts in the battleground...
Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen (R), who complied with a federal grand jury subpoena and gave the FBI records pertaining to the 2020 elections in March, is projected to win the Republican nomination to take on Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) in November, according to Decision Desk HQ. Petersen, who’s served as the top Senate Republican since 2023, defeated Rodney Glassman,...
Former Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb is projected to win the Republican primary for Rep. Andy Biggs’s (R) seat in Arizona’s 5th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Lamb, who previously ran for Senate and lost to Republican Kari Lake in the 2024 GOP primary, secured President Trump’s endorsement in addition to support from the conservative...
Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson (D) is shifting his attention to a coming battle against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) after pulling off a stunning rise to become the likely Democratic nominee for Senate. Jackson appears poised to formally win the nod Saturday at the party’s nominating convention in Bangor after securing an overwhelming majority of delegates and his main competitors dropped out of the race. After...
Emails from Jeffrey Epstein to world leaders indicate he should have registered as a foreign agent, House Judiciary Democrats argue, including messages showing he sought to capitalize on his relationship to President Trump. In a letter to top Trump administration officials, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the communications from the deceased sex offender that have...
A Trump-nominated federal judge has ruled against the administration in a key case centered around local immigration policy in Minnesota. According to a Monday filing, the Trump administration asserted that Minnesota sanctuary laws violate the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which states that federal law must be supreme to state and local law. The administration...
The State Department in a new report linked Cuba to a range of protests in the U.S., including demonstrations surrounding the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The 100-page document, which was released Monday, alleged that beginning in the 1960s, the Cuban regime "has served as the beating heart of a new and distinct kind...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story US military strikes Iran for 10th consecutive day The U.S. military launched another round of airstrikes against Iran on Monday, marking the 10th consecutive day of kinetic action as the death toll from the conflict rises. ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine are set to testify in front of the Senate Tuesday on the White House’s supplemental funding request, days after an escalation in the U.S.-Iran war left three service members dead. Hegseth and Caine along with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rolling will...
President Trump has put Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on notice over the wildfire smoke that has shrouded over a dozen states, threatening tariffs and adding more strain to already fraught U.S.-Canada relations. Trump has said the smoke from Canada’s wildfires has been “poisoning” the air in the U.S. and suggested that America’s northern neighbor...
Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg on Monday called for U.S. ground troops in Iran as well as a new American negotiating team in the conflict. “Look, there's about five things we ought to be doing right now, because the war has changed right now in Iran. One on negotiations, I would change out our negotiations...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Monday said federal authorities are “actively pursuing” an investigation into a threat at a World Cup fan fest event. “It was an intimate threat that because of our federal partnership and our local partnership, being able to work together, we were able to stop it before...
Fears are growing that the deaths of three U.S. servicemembers over a 24-hour period this weekend could push President Trump toward further escalation, even as both sides leave diplomatic doors open. The servicemembers’ deaths bring the U.S. death toll in the Iran war to 17 since the conflict broke out in March. Since the U.S....
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for ending the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) tracking of parasitic infections including cyclospora. The decision was made last year and suspended tracking managed by the CDC, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, in addition to...
President Trump slapped an additional 50 percent tariff on certain Canadian goods in response to what the administration said were “discriminatory” trade measures from Canada on Monday. A senior administration official told reporters on a Monday press call that the impacted products range from “wine to hockey sticks to cement." The tariffs fall under Section...
