Attention high-school seniors: Deadlines are coming up! Polish your dream-college applications, hit send, and hope the admissions game isn’t rigged with “race proxies”! To stay ahead of the curve, consider including your “subjective social status” —...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth in hot water again for endangering troops with Signal messages A highly critical inspector general report found Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized troop safety and violated department policy by using the Signal app on his...
Senate Democrats, along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), on Wednesday filed a war powers resolution to prevent the United States from using the U.S. armed forces from engaging in hostilities with Venezuela without congressional approval. The resolution, filed by Paul and Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.),...
President Trump’s pick to lead NASA, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, refused on Wednesday to say if Elon Musk was in the room when Trump first offered him the job. Isaacman — who was renominated last month after Trump pulled the nomination in May — appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Bipartisan Obamacare deal remains out-of-reach in Senate hearing The clock is ticking on Congress to extend expiring ObamaCare enhanced subsidies. Senators in both parties Wednesday acknowledged the need for a bipartisan deal; it just doesn’t seem like they...
A vomiting disorder linked to frequent marijuana use is on the rise, prompting global health officials to allow researchers to track the condition and study it. Dubbed on social media as "scromiting," short for screaming and vomiting, cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) cases saw a jump in emergency department visits between 2016 and 2022, according to...
President Trump defended his decision to pardon Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) when asked whether the move would help the Democratic congressman get reelected in next year's midterms. “It didn’t matter,” Trump told The Hill during an Oval Office event on Wednesday. “He was a respected person. He was treated very badly because he said that...
The Tennessee special election is reviving a long-simmering debate between the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party over what kind of candidates to nominate. Democrat Aftyn Behn fell short of flipping the seat in the deep-red 7th Congressional District on Tuesday night after running largely on the issue of affordability. She was attacked...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Republicans have “a real problem” after the party eked out a narrow victory in a ruby red Tennessee district in Tuesday’s special election. “I'm always concerned, to be honest,” Burchett told CNN’s Manu Raju when asked about the race, which was more competitive than in recent years. “We got a...
Some Senate Republicans are expressing frustration that their conference hasn’t been able to unify behind a health care plan ahead of a vote next week on a Democratic proposal to extend health insurance premium subsidies that will expire in January. Republicans are worried the subsidies, and health insurance and costs more broadly, could become a...
President Trump said on Wednesday he supports the release of the video showing the second boat strike that killed the remaining survivors in a Sept. 2 Caribbean operation. "I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we'd certainly release, no problem,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Every boat we knock out,...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of telling "blatant lies" to write her postcampaign memoir "107 Days" and "cover her a--," according to a profile about the governor published in The Atlantic on Wednesday. Reporter Tim Alberta described Shapiro as "between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts" about...
Policymakers in Washington are grappling with key questions about how to regulate AI and deal with its potential downstream effects, as the technology continues to develop at a rapid pace. Current and former lawmakers and industry stakeholders joined The Hill’s "AI in America Summit" on Wednesday to discuss the future of AI, where the difficulty of legislating on the technology, the prospect of China’s AI ambitions and the high energy demands of data...
Navy Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley will head to Capitol Hill on Thursday to brief senior lawmakers on the Trump administration’s controversial strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. Questions have been swirling in recent days about the details of the Sept. 2 attack, which The Washington Post reported last Friday required...
