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Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Pesticides test MAHA, MAGA alliance The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement may be on a collision course with its Republican allies over pesticides and toxic chemicals, The Hill’s Rachel Frazin reports. © iStock MAHA, a movement...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story National Guard presence causes headaches, backlash in DC A National Guard vehicle collided with a civilian car early Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., an incident that comes as a new poll found a majority of the...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard plans to slash 40 percent of the agency’s staff by October in a move she said would help transform the head of the intelligence community into “ODNI 2.0.” Gabbard's cuts would reassign roles or eliminate various centers within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), including those that...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Pesticides test MAHA, MAGA alliance The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement could be on a collision course with its Republican allies over pesticides and toxic chemicals. © Greg Nash The New York Times reported last week that a draft of the Trump administration’s...

Most Americans are opposed to Russia receiving Ukrainian territory at the end of the war, according to a new poll that comes as President Trump has suggested "land swaps" should be part of a peace deal. When asked in The Economist/YouGov poll about “how much of Ukraine’s territory” they want Russia to have at the...

Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and other officials in Washington, D.C., say the Trump administration's crime crackdown is really about exerting power and elevating immigration enforcement — not making D.C. safer. While top Trump officials say the high-profile deployments have had the immediate effect of stifling crime in the District, local critics are raising questions about...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voiced support Wednesday for the Trump administration’s plan to potentially take a stake in Intel, suggesting it aligned with an earlier effort to secure returns from CHIPS and Science Act investments. “I am glad the Trump administration is in agreement with the amendment I offered three years ago to the CHIPS...

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story What to know about school cellphone bans More and more U.S. students will be entering cellphone-free zones this year as states and school districts have implemented restrictions either in the classroom or the moment a child enters the building. © Keith Srakocic, Associated Press Increased punishments, Yondr pouches and...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against the operators of LA Fitness on Wednesday, alleging the popular gym chain makes the process of canceling memberships too difficult for consumers. “The FTC’s complaint describes a scenario that too many Americans have experienced – a gym membership that seems impossible to cancel,” Bureau of Consumer...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Trump finds next Fed target President Trump called for the resignation of Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook following allegations by the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) that she committed mortgage...

McKinney, Texas has been ranked as the most attractive real estate market in the U.S. by WalletHub, with five other Texas cities in the top 10 and three Louisiana cities in the bottom three.

The Interior Department is deputizing federal border agents and sending them to National Park Service sites amid the federal law enforcement takeover of Washington, D.C., Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Wednesday.  Burgum wrote in a post on the social platform X that the department “has authorized a service-wide deputization” of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to...

Two German fighter jets were dispatched to Romania's border with Ukraine on Tuesday in response to Russian attacks in the region. Moscow targeted Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, according to Romania’s Ministry of National Defense. However, no intrusions from Russian forces were detected during the German mission. “The close cooperation with Allies throughout the...

Russia is sending signals that it intends to slow-walk a peace deal on Ukraine, showing some daylight between the Kremlin and President Trump’s intentions to end the war. From a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to suggestions of security agreements for Kyiv, Russian officials have expressed doubt about some early prospects of a peace...