Democrats are vowing to expand the midterm map into redder territory next year after strong showing Tuesday night in Tennessee, but prominent moderates warn the party must still overcome...
The commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command is set to meet with Congressional oversight committee leadership on Thursday as pressure builds over the military operations in the Caribbean Sea against suspected drug traffickers.
Even for a president who has long made clear he's no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country's largest Somali community.
The Jeffrey Epstein saga is bad and getting worse for President Trump. A House vote looms, likely next week, on whether the Department of Justice should release all the Epstein files in its possession. The measure might well pass. Passage in the House would not come close to guaranteeing the files would actually be released....
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday evening a new operation dubbed “Southern Spear” to quash “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere. Hegseth said the mission is being led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) to defend the “Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs...
Pennsylvania will no longer seek to be part of a regional climate agreement among states in the Northeast U.S. A recent budget deal ends the commonwealth's effort to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), according to a statement from state Senate Republicans. The initiative sets a cap on planet-warming emissions and requires power plants in the...
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, hours after Democrats on the committee released emails in which the disgraced financier alleged that President Trump “knew about the girls.” The newly released files include spreadsheets, images of books relevant to...
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday blasted conservative attorney George Conway online for calling into question Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Conway wrote that Blanche's July questioning of Maxwell "was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump," Conway...
The Trump administration is restoring oil and gas drilling on millions of acres in the Arctic that had been blocked off by former President Biden, it announced Thursday. The administration issued a press release saying it was issuing a final rule to rescind the Biden-era decision to restrict development on 13 million acres that are part of...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense & National Security Defense & National Security The Big Story US military kills 4 in 20th strike on alleged drug boats The Pentagon earlier this week carried out its 20th strike on a boat it claimed was trafficking drugs, killing all four on board, officials...
The White House said Thursday it had reached framework agreements on trade deals with four Latin American countries to lower tariffs on some goods, such as coffee and bananas. The administration outlined deals with Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador and Guatemala. Administration officials said the agreements would provide tariff relief for those countries on goods that cannot be...
Lawmakers in the House have secured enough signatures on a discharge petition to force a vote on the floor regarding the release of files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have led the measure seeking transparency about the deceased financier's relationships — including with President Trump,...
The U.S. military conducted its 20th lethal strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Monday, killing four "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean Sea, a Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Hill on Thursday. There were no survivors following the attack, part of what the Trump administration argues is a military campaign, which kicked...
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday that the air travel system “should return to normal by the weekend” after recent chaos caused by the government shutdown. “[Transportation] Secretary [Sean] Duffy did the right thing by getting ahead when they saw that the staffing levels and the controllers were having a difficult time managing...
