Leaders of the U.S. Hispanic Business Council knew it would be hard to get Ken Paxton to show up to their Senate town hall event. So, they turned to...
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday the Pentagon's blacklisting of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic earlier this year was illegal, violating the First Amendment. In a ruling Thursday evening, Judge Rita Lin said the Trump administration retaliated against the Claude-maker for its "constitutionally protected activity," and violated the Due Process clause of the...
A Florida grand jury found Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-Fla.) administration “misappropriated” a payment from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation — an organization “championed” by first lady Casey DeSantis. The grand jury argued the $10 million transfer was "part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities," according to a copy of the...
The U.S. military said Thursday that it has cleared all Iranian sea mines along internationally recognized transit routes in the Strait of Hormuz. In a video posted to the social platform X Thursday evening, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said that “the U.S. military has achieved a major milestone in the Strait...
Wisconsin politicians made jokes out of President Trump’s executive order aiming to rename Lake Ontario, jesting about the renaming of Lake Michigan, another Great Lake. On Thursday, the president put his signature on an executive order formally changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid U.S.-Canadian trade tensions. “We’re going to be changing...
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) plans to introduce a bill Monday that would nullify President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The one-page “Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act” bill would ensure the executive order “shall have no force or effect” and “restore the name of Lake Ontario,” according to documents obtained by...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Hemp ban awaits Senators returning from break When Congress returns from August recess next week, House Republicans looking to quickly pass stopgap funding legislation will need to navigate the same potential minefield on hemp that almost tripped up the Senate. ...
The Food and Drug Administration approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday for people at higher risk, clearing the way for manufacturers to begin shipping them to pharmacies and physicians' offices. The agency greenlit new formulations of the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, the companies said. FDA also approved a non-mRNA shot from Sanofi, which...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story USS Theodore Roosevelt being deployed to Middle East The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is expected to sail to the Middle East in the coming weeks to relieve another aircraft carrier as the U.S. military in...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report Thursday blaming the location of a temporary Ellipse site for an incident in early August when President Trump’s Marine One helicopter came within a mile of a passenger jet. The report stated that the helicopter attempted to contact air traffic controllers twice at Reagan Washington...
Three Stars and Stripes staffers sued the Pentagon in federal court Thursday, looking to prevent last week’s firings by the Department of Defense (DOD) at the military-focused newspaper. Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte filed the complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the...
Top Trump administration health officials are openly questioning the circumstances of two deaths that Pennsylvania officials attributed to measles. “We don't know exactly what happened in Pennsylvania yet,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in an interview Thursday on Fox Business. “We don't know if the children died...
A group of mostly Democratic senators pressed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to not use gloves that can electrically shock people in a Thursday letter. In the letter addressed to ICE Acting Director David Venturella, the senators said that they were writing “to express deep concern about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans...
