Two hundred fifty years ago this summer, our Founding Fathers created a new nation, as President Abraham Lincoln put it, “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” This Memorial Day, we should remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and made its unlikely existence possible. America’s success wasn’t […]
THE IRAN TALKS: HOW THE ADMINISTRATION SEES THINGS NOW. In the last couple of days the Iran war has been going through another one of the up-and-down news cycles — in which some sort of resolution seems imminent and then not so imminent — that have become a familiar story. In this case, President Trump, who […]
A former adviser to President Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic said Sunday that the U.S. is equipped to handle an Ebola outbreak. “The U.S. right now does not have a confirmed head of the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)], it does not have a confirmed head of the [Food and Drug Administration (FDA)],...
Secret Service Director Sean Curran said Sunday that his thoughts were with the bystander shot amid an exchange of gunfire between officers and a gunman near the White House on Saturday. "I want to recognize the quick and decisive response demonstrated by our Secret Service police officers last night in confronting an armed gunman. Their...
A dozen Senate Democrats on Tuesday laid out the key principles they hope to see in a bill regulating the cryptocurrency market. The framework, put forward by Sens. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and other crypto-friendly Democrats, offers up their view on the central issues underpinning market structure...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said sending the National Guard to his city is the “wrong solution to a real problem” in a new opinion piece for The New York Times. “Lowering crime rates here does not require an occupation of our city by armed members of the National Guard, as the White House continues...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and other Democrats are trolling Vice President Vance over a post on President Trump’s alleged birthday note to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Back in July, Vance criticized what he called a “complete and utter bulls‑‑‑” Wall Street Journal report on a “bawdy” birthday note Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein...
President Trump on Monday suggested that “a little fight with the wife” should not count when it comes to Washington, D.C., crime statistics amid his crackdown in the nation’s capital. “Can you imagine our capital being the most violent city? But it was — it was really bad, into a totally safe zone. It's called...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Pentagon sets its sights on Puerto Rico in combatting cartels Top Pentagon officials made a surprise trip to Puerto Rico on Monday amid the Trump administration’s push to counter drug cartels in Latin America and the...
Senate Republicans on Monday formally got the ball rolling on their bid to invoke the so-called nuclear option and change the chamber’s rules in order to expeditiously confirm dozens of President Trump's stalled nominees in the coming weeks. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday started the process of making the rules change on...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Republicans on Monday that they’ll regret their decision to reexamine the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jeffries said Democrats will use their participation in a newly launched GOP investigation of the rampage to highlight President Trump’s role in fomenting the violence that day. “Republicans will...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Sunday called Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “joke” amid turmoil in Kennedy’s own department. “You looked at that appearance before Congress, and it just confirms what all of us around this table have known for decades: Robert F Kennedy Jr. is...
Count billionaire Ken Griffin as one of those in the business community questioning President Trump's hostility toward the Federal Reserve. Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel and a supporter of the president, criticized Trump's "interventions" in central bank policy in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Sunday. "While the U.S. benefits from a large stock of credibility accumulated...
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on Monday launched a probe into the Trump administration’s decision to revoke 37 officials’ security clearances, and questioned the rationale behind listing them publicly. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard last month stripped clearances from a number of current and former intelligence officials who have ties to the Biden...
Presented by International Justice Mission {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Google faces new curbs on search dominance Google has avoided the worst-case scenario of being forced to sell off its Chrome browser, but legal experts say the court’s remedies to the Justice Department’s (DOJ) antitrust win could still loosen the company’s grip over...
The Trump administration is escalating its immigration operations in Democratic cities in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling giving the government the ability to conduct immigration stops based on an individual’s ethnicity or whether they speak Spanish. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday morning announced “Operation Patriot 2.0” in Massachusetts and announced...
