California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday shared an AI-generated video depicting President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller in handcuffs. The video shows the three sitting on a step outside, their hands behind their backs, as the text, "It's cuffing season," appears onscreen. It then transitions...
Amid intensifying scrutiny over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, questions are emerging over who in the Trump administration’s chain of command is legally on the hook for what many see as war crimes. Administration officials have insisted it was the decision of Adm. Frank Bradley, not Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,...
Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins (D) vowed to get straight to work upon taking office on Wednesday, saying the city is “at the tip of the spear” of affordability concerns in the U.S. Higgins defeated Republican Emilio Gonzalez by 19 points in Tuesday’s mayoral runoff, marking another victory for Democrats after successes in New Jersey, Virginia...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump escalates tensions with seized oil tanker near Venezuela President Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, the latest escalation in what has become an increasingly tense...
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy on Wednesday said the board "vehemently opposes" one of the provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by the House of Representatives hours earlier. She said during a press conference that the NTSB took notice of Section 373, which she said gives the military "unfettered...
Moderate and vulnerable Republicans are attempting a long-shot revolt against their leaders in the House over health care. They are trying to force a vote to extend the enhanced ObamaCare subsidies that GOP leaders are declining to bring up — and that moderates warn will cost Republicans in the midterms. House Republican leaders said Wednesday...
{beacon} Technology The Big Story Senate rushes to finish crypto market bill ahead of holiday recess Senators are trying to iron out key sticking points in legislation to regulate the cryptocurrency industry in their final working weeks of the year, as they push to get the bill out of committee after months of negotiations. ...
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story FEMA council expected to announce recommendations The Trump administration is set to unveil its plan this week to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a proposal that is sure to be contentious but is not expected to go as far as earlier calls...
Attorney General Pam Bondi shared a Wednesday video of U.S. forces seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker after a series of strikes on vessels in the region. “Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude...
Democratic lawmakers and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) expressed concern Wednesday that the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker by the U.S. could further increase tensions between the two countries, while other GOP senators said they were awaiting more information. “It sounds a lot like the beginning of a war,” Paul told NewsNation’s Hannah Brandt on...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday accused Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) of being part of a "rioting crowd" during a mass arrest in Tucson last week. On Friday, ICE and other federal agents arrested 46 undocumented immigrants in an operation that stemmed from "a multiyear investigation into a transnational criminal organization involved in labor...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed several mentions of human activity on a webpage related to the causes of climate change. Last week, the EPA quietly updated a page on its site outlining causes of global warming. Previously, the page said: “This record shows that the climate varies naturally over a wide range of time scales,...
The House on Wednesday easily passed the annual defense policy bill, sending the mammoth, $900 billion measure to the Senate ahead of the year-end deadline. The measure, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed the lower chamber by a vote of 312-112. Ninety-four Democrats and 18 Republicans opposed the bill. The NDAA, a traditionally bipartisan bill that...
CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday pressed Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) about remarks made last year in a Vanity Fair article, when she said the way Latinos talk about immigration reminds her of the “slave mentality.” “The immigration thing has always been something that has perplexed me about this community. It's basically like, I fought...
