Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly contentious policy issue over the past year, as lawmakers have grappled with the impact of the rapidly developing technology that has moved markets, influenced geopolitics and become largely unavoidable in daily life. Key issues — like who should decide regulations, how to balance the push for innovation with the potential risks and how to best compete with China — have...
Congress wrote these programs in order to accelerate carbon capture and strengthen rural energy resilience, not to provide no-strings-attached capital upgrades to coal plants.
President Trump took a swipe at actor George Clooney and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, after their family was granted French citizenship. “Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem...
Republican businessman and former Paulding County Commissioner Brian Stover launched his first ad on Thursday in the crowded race to replace outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. “Like President Trump, I’m a businessman, not a politician. And like him, I have the same mission: to take out the trash,” Stover,...
The Trump administration’s first year in office kicked off a variety of legal challenges and policy changes spanning federal spending practices to sweeping tariffs, prompting Americans to scramble to understand the size and scope of these reforms. The chaotic environment has led news outlets covering the American legal and judicial system to pivot, pursuing different...
After months of fighting and countless proposals for a bipartisan compromise, the expiration date for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax subsidies has arrived, with millions of Americans set to feel the pain. Congress had until Dec. 31, 2025 to strike a deal extending tax credits that were first enacted during the COVID-19...
Democrats spent the early part of last year struggling to redefine themselves after devastating losses in the 2024 election. Now, with 2025 closed out, the party has regained some of its lost momentum, aided by a string of recent special election victories and President Trump’s rocky approval ratings. And as the party prepares for the...
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Wednesday slammed incoming New York mayor Zohran Mamdani for being sworn in with the Quran, the sacred scripture of Islam. “The enemy is inside the gates,” Tuberville wrote in a post on X, where he also posted a screenshot of a New York Times piece on Mamdani’s historic decision. Mamdani, who will be...
President Trump was briefed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe at the White House on Wednesday, where he was informed that there is that there is no evidence Ukraine launched an attack on Putin’s residence, NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer and Kevin Bohn have learned. The briefing happened two days after Russia accused Ukraine of trying to attack...
The U.S. military blew up two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) area of responsibility on Wednesday, continuing the Trump administration counternarcotics campaign in the Western Hemisphere. The forces killed five "narco-terrorists" in two boats operated by a designated terrorist organization. Three people were killed in the first boat and two were...
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Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump gives up on National Guard deployments in Chicago, LA, Portland President Trump said Wednesday that his administration will end its deployment of the National Guard in Chicago; Los Angeles; and Portland, Ore., vowing to return...
A Minnesota day care center on Wednesday said they’ve faced “extreme vandalism” after Nick Shirley’s viral YouTube video shared allegations of fraud. Employees of Nokomis DayCare Center in Minneapolis told police they were broken into on Tuesday morning after Shirley claimed they were using public funding for a child care facility where kids were not...
