President Trump signed two executive orders Monday slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, reversing Biden-era expansions and reigniting a decades-long battle over presidential authority under the Antiquities Act.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday the federal immigration officer who fatally shot a man in Maine did so out of fear for “public safety.” The department wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were conducting “targeted surveillance on the last known address” of an undocumented migrant in Biddeford, Maine,...
The defense ministry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said Monday Iranian forces targeted a pair of its tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one crew member. The UAE Ministry of Defence wrote on social platform X Iranian cruise missiles hit the country’s Mombasa and Al Bahiyah tankers, which were transiting the southern lane...
President Trump slammed his former national security adviser after he pleaded guilty on Friday to improperly retaining sensitive materials from his time in the White House. “John Bolton, a very dumb, unbalanced, and unskilled former representative of the United States of America, just pleads guilty!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on late Friday...
Anthropic can now share its most advanced AI model with over 100 companies after the U.S. government lifted its export ban on Claude Mythos 5 on Friday, a spokesperson for Anthropic confirmed in a statement to the Hill. The decision reflects a major change since the government imposed restrictions on Mythos 5 and its weaker counterpart, Fable...
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly had a blunt message to the thousands of Haitians and Syrians protected from deportation under a form of humanitarian relief after the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday the Trump administration could end these protections. “We don’t want you. We don’t care if you’re offended,” Kelly said during a taping...
Jacqueline Smith, the ombudsman of outlet Stars and Stripes who was ousted in April after she criticized the Pentagon’s new restrictions on the newspaper, is suing the Defense Department. In a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., Smith alleges that her firing was retaliatory and violated her First Amendment rights as it happened 10 days after...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Back at it with Iran? The U.S. military said it conducted strikes against Iranian sites on Friday, less than an hour after President Trump indicated action would be taken against Tehran. The president cited Thursday’s attack...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Thursday re-upped Democratic-led warnings about election interference ahead of the midterm elections. Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly voiced concerns about the Trump administration’s efforts to access voter data from many U.S. states and cited President Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. “There is no question...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday that he was briefly separated from his 4-year-old twin children after an anonymous caller reported false accusations to Child Protective Services (CPS). In a Substack post titled “A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family,” the former Biden administration official said he was the subject of a “swatting” incident,...
A draft final report from President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released Friday calls for “building bridges between church and state,” a reversal of a long-standing U.S. legal principle. “Americans must know their rights and stand with courage when those rights are challenged,” the commission’s report read. “To preserve this freedom, we must build bridges, not walls,...
The U.S. military said it conducted strikes against Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar locations on Friday, a day after Tehran struck a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes by U.S. forces in the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) came after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged container...
The Trump administration, Israel and Lebanon on Friday announced a trilateral framework aimed at kicking out Iran’s influence in the country through its support of the militant group Hezbollah and paving a way for an Israeli withdrawal from territory it holds in the south. The agreement came after three days of intense talks between Israeli...
