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Illegal immigrant’s ‘over-the-top’ sexual assault on elderly woman sends sheriff into rage: ‘Out of control’

Sheriff Grady Judd says a 24-year-old illegal immigrant broke into a Polk County home and committed a vicious sexual battery on a 77-year-old woman.

Another ActBlue leader pleads Fifth as House investigates alleged foreign donations

ActBlue board member Kimberly Peeler-Allen invoked her Fifth Amendment right during a House probe into alleged foreign donations to the platform.

Two Democrats rescue Mike Johnson’s anti-socialism resolution in stunning move

A group of House Republicans threatened to upend Speaker Mike Johnson's plans this week in protest of his handling of federal spending.

Baby killed after illegal immigrant allegedly strikes family at grocery store parking lot

A nine-month-old died after Maria Cobon-Guzman allegedly struck a family in a New Jersey parking lot, reigniting debate over the state's sanctuary policy.

DHS secretary bashes New York leadership after announcing thousands of arrests in sweeping operation

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says Operation Rotten Apple arrested over 2,100 criminals in New York while blasting the state's sanctuary policies.

White House accuses over 40 countries of helping China avoid US tariffs

The White House accused China of routing billions of dollars of goods through other countries to avoid President Trump’s 2018 tariffs, costing the U.S. billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a new report released Thursday. The report, titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” found more than 40 countries, ranging from Mexico to Israel, involved...

Trump directs Navy to return to steam catapults on aircraft carriers

President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy on Thursday to remove the electromagnetic catapult system on aircraft carriers to launch fighter planes and revert back to using catapult systems, a move that officials and experts argue would raise costs in the process. The president directed the service to have Ford-class aircraft carriers, such as the Doris...

Schwartz faces Trump’s vaccine test

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story New CDC director faces Trump vaccine test Erica Schwartz was officially sworn in as CDC director on Thursday, and she is already facing her first serious test: President Trump's executive order to change childhood vaccine policy. Natasha Kaiser Schwartz's confirmation...

Homan defends ICE electric shock gloves as alternative to lethal force

White House border czar Tom Homan on Thursday defended plans to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, arguing the devices would prevent agents from needing to resort to deadly force. “It’s another device to help someone get compliant when they are not,” Homan said in Thursday appearance...

Third detainee dies after medical emergency at New Jersey ICE facility

A third migrant detained at Delaney Hall, New Jersey's largest immigrant detention facility located in Newark, has died following a medical emergency. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told The Hill in a statement Thursday that, on July 19, a nurse was responding to another emergency when she noticed Guatemalan immigrant Jose Chajon-Raxon "experiencing seizure-like...

Senate Democrats call for GAO audit of White House ballroom project

A group of Senate Democrats called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct an audit into the White House ballroom project following new reporting on the Trump administration’s multi-million-dollar construction projects.  The Washington Post reported Wednesday on confidential contracts that showed the administration is expected to spend at least $900 million on White House...

Biden-era effort to boost power lines cut by Trump administration

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump cuts Biden-era effort to boost power lines The Trump administration is canceling a Biden-era effort to speed up power line construction in parts of Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Joe Raedle, Getty Images file The Energy Department announced this...

Top Commerce Committee Democrat presses airlines over AI ‘surveillance pricing’

A top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is pressing major U.S. airlines over whether they use artificial intelligence to set ticket prices based on travelers’ personal information, raising concerns that it determines what fares consumers see. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent...

Who will replace Leavitt? Top contenders emerge

News of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stepping down is still fresh, but political observers are already guessing and taking bets on who could take her place. The press secretary is one of the most front-facing administration officials, and President Trump went through four press secretaries during his first term, with their timelines spanning...

Warren presses RFK Jr. on Trump ties to lettuce distributor

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is pressing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on whether the administration’s response to the cyclosporiasis outbreak was influenced by the donations of a major produce supplier to groups linked to President Trump. In a letter sent to Kennedy on Thursday, Warren questioned whether the “botched response”...

Trump cancels Biden-era bid to speed power line construction

The Trump administration is canceling a Biden-era effort to speed up power line construction in parts of Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska and the Dakotas. The Energy Department announced this week that it would not move forward with designating three areas as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, a move that could get them federal...

New aircraft carrier going to Middle East amid questions over conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln

The U.S. is sending a new aircraft carrier to the Middle East amid reports of poor conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been long deployed to the theater in support of the war against Iran.  The USS George Washington, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, departed a port in Vietnam last week and was spotted...

Republican Senate candidate: ‘It’s embarrassing’ to be from Minnesota

Former sportscaster and Republican Senate candidate Michele Tafoya said Wednesday that voters told her it was “embarrassing” to be from Minnesota, amid progressive candidates’ wins across the state. In an appearance on Fox News’s “America Reports,” host John Roberts asked Tafoya about polling that showed her trailing behind her opponent Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a...

Flock revises privacy policies following backlash

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Flock updates privacy policies amid backlash Flock Safety will implement new privacy and data retention policies as pressure grows on the automated license plate operator to prevent its technology from being abused or used to conduct mass surveillance. © Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The company announced Thursday it will shorten the...

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