A federal judge gave the government until Tuesday to release a redacted search warrant affidavit from a January FBI raid that seized 2020 election materials.
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC finalizes about 600 layoffs Following a revised order from a federal judge, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finalized laying off roughly 600 staffers Wednesday, according to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Will Putin 'wriggle out' of Zelensky meeting? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday warned that his Russian counterpart is looking for a way out of a bilateral meeting being pushed by President Trump. AP Photo/Jae C....
California's Democratic-controlled Legislature formally approved a plan Thursday to redraw the state's congressional lines, teeing up a special election this fall that will let Californians weigh in on mid-decade redistricting in response to a plan pushed by Texas Republicans. Both the state Assembly and Senate approved three pieces of the Election Rigging Response Act legislative package, which...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story AI's impact on the job market Business leaders have offered dire warnings in recent months about the turmoil artificial intelligence (AI) could unleash on the job market, predicting widespread worker displacement and mass unemployment. Experts say the picture is still unclear, with the full impact yet to be...
President Trump said he plans to patrol with the Metropolitan Police Department and National Guard troops around Washington, D.C., on Thursday night amid a federal crackdown on crime. “I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course,” Trump told conservative radio host Todd Starnes on his...
President Trump has been using the bully pulpit of his presidency to go after the Federal Reserve with a vengeance, and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) chief William Pulte has acted as his megaphone-in-chief throughout his pressure campaign. Pulte has lambasted Fed chair Powell in social media posts and television interviews, called for lower short-term...
A State Department official was fired for being on the wrong side of a debate over the Trump administration's policies toward relocating Palestinians in Gaza and Israel’s claims to the West Bank. Shahed Ghoreishi, who served as press officer for Israeli and Palestinian affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, says he was fired...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) redistricting effort raised $6.2 million since it started receiving donations a week ago, according to the governor’s team. The haul, which was first reported by The New York Times, included 200,000 donations as of Thursday afternoon. Newsom has become a leader in the Democratic Party’s fight against Republican redistricting efforts...
LIVE Video: Trump patrols DC streets with police and military President Trump left the White House to patrol alongside the National Guard and other law enforcement officials amid his efforts to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. He arrived at the U.S. Park Police station in Anacostia after driving through Navy Yard. Earlier in...
President Trump’s administration selected Joe Francescon, a former intelligence analyst and counterterrorism aide, as the next deputy director of the National Security Agency (NSA). "Joe has served our country with distinction at the highest levels of national security, from the Intelligence Community to the Pentagon and overseas,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Defense...
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has rolled out a tool to detect talk about nuclear weapons, the company said in a Thursday blog post. “Nuclear technology is inherently dual-use: the same physics principles that power nuclear reactors can be misused for weapons development. As AI models become more capable, we need to keep a close...
A federal judge on Thursday ruled Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Trump, has been unlawfully serving as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann explained that the Trump administration made Habba the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey through a "novel series of legal and personnel moves,"...
A rainbow crosswalk near Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., honoring the victims of one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings was painted over late Wednesday after close to a decade, part of a state and nationwide effort to scrub “political banners” from public roads. The Pulse Memorial’s crosswalk, first painted in 2017, honored the 49 people killed...
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives. The decision partially lifts a Boston-based judge's ruling that declared the cancellations illegal and blocked the administration from moving forward. Five of the court's six Republican-appointed...
